Fonts, colours and analysis

These are the fonts which I have chosen to use on my magazine. I have chosen 10 as I think having a wide range of different fonts will make the magazine more interesting and appealing. I have chosen the colours black, crimson, yellow and white as I think these colours work well together and relate closely to my rock theme which my magazine is based around. I didn't chose many colours to use for my magazine content as I wanted to keep it simple. If there were too many colours the magazine may look busy, unorganised and unneat and this isn't good as I want my magazine to look professional and having minimal colours for my fonts will make it look professional.
The fonts which I have used are (in order from top to bottom):
-Minion Pro Bold Cond Italic
-Adobe Fangsong Std R
-Adobe Garamond Pro Italic
-Edwardian Script ITC Regular
-Baskerville Old Face Regular
-Adobe Caslon Pro Regular
-Myraid Pro Regular
-Calibri Bold
-Adobe Garamond Pro Bold
-Adobe Garamond Pro Bold Italic

Construction Schedule

Week 1: Think about ideas which I would like my magazine to look like and would genre it would be.

Week 2: Produce drafts for my 3 products (front cover, contents page and feature article). 

Week 3: Do a photoshoot for my front cover and think about front cover layout. 

Week 4: Start to construct final front cover.

Week 5: Do a photoshoot for my contents page and think about contents page layout. 

Week 6: Start to construct final contents page. 

Week 7: Use my own images to put on my feature article and think about feature article layout and then construct 

Week 8: Finish writing on my feature article 

Week 9: Finish my feature article.

Week 10: Do final changes to finished products.

Final Products- Magazine

Advertises mood board

I chose these companies as I thought these would be appropriate to be advertised in my magazine. Some of the companies are more upper class which may be a problem as some of my audience wouldn't be able to afford these items therefore it would be pointless advertising them as the company would not get any business. 

I added companies which my audience may be able to afford like, Vans, Converse, Topshop, Nikon and Fujifilm and this way my magazine would be more appealing as I am advertising companies which my audience would be interested in.

Mood board analysis

My mood board is only small as my target audience is not a group that can afford a lot but there are expensive things on my mood board such as the car, guitars, 'Beats' headphones and drums. These are not necessarily things they would buy but their interested instead. My mood board lacks bright colours as this group prefer more darker shades. I've tried to add the most important things which helps gives a better mental image of my target audience. 

My first mood board

This is my original mood board which I had created. I made another mood board as I felt this one did not correctly match my target audience. Some pieces of this mood board match my target audience like the camera, guitar and Twitter.

Location, Props and Costumes

I used my home as my location to do my photo-shoot as here I was able to set up my studio lights. I had a full which wall which I used as a background for my model. I only used one prop which was a guitar amplifier and this is what she sat on and was also part of my picture. My model was dressed in a blue and white striped dress and a leather jacket. I thought the blue wasn't really a rock colour so I decided on a colour which would be and I would edit that later on when I came to designing my magazine. 

Audience Questionnaire Analysis

After doing my audience research it helped me to know what would be best to put in my magazine. When looking at my results, most of my audience was female between the ages of 16 and 20 so having this information helped me to know how to design my magazine in a way which would be suited to this age range. The majority of my research says that the preferred colour scheme was red, blue, white and black. I took this into consideration but once I had thought about it, the colours clashed and didn't work well together. So I looked at the second favourite colour scheme and decided that these colours worked better together (Yellow, red, white and black). Not only this but these colours are more suited to a rock/rock-pop magazine which means my magazine will look more professional. 

Magazine Publishers

Evaluation Question 1

Contact Sheet of original images

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My target audience would mainly be in the band E on the demographic table. Band E is where you are unemployed, a student or a casual worker but some may also be in band D which is semi skilled and unskilled manual workers. In the psychographic table, my target audience would be aspirers. My audience seeks status and are orientated to image and appearance and are also into fashion.
The qualities I have implied for this group are that although they may seem grungy, they would also be good people.

Evaluation Question 3- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 7- Looking back at your preliminary task (the college magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Evaluation Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I used my different pieces of technology when taking my images for my magazine. I used:

·         Nikon D3200 with a 55-300mm lens

·         Tripod

·         HP Laptop

·         2 studio lights with white umbrellas

·         White backdrop

I used a white backdrop so that my background was one solid colour. This made it easier to edit on Photoshop. I painted around my model using the paintbrush tool and then selected the background area and deleted it so this just left me with my model.

I used a tripod so that my images did not turn out blurry when I took them.

My two studio lights which white umbrellas helped to get a softer flow so  my images were not so harsh they also gave better lighting as I was shooting inside and the natural light was not enough to get the effect I wanted whereas the studio lights did.

I edited my images on both a website and on Photoshop. The website which I used is called ‘Befunky’ and on here I balanced out the contrasts and tones. On Photoshop I changed various adjustments but mainly I changed my models dress colour from blue to red as this then made her clothes coordinate better with my magazine colour scheme.

The Photoshop tools which I used were:

·         Magic Wand

·         Crop

·         Spot Healing Brush

·         Paint Brush

·         Horizontal Type

·         Eraser

·         Opacity

·         Rectangle

Magic Wand- This tool helped me to remove backgrounds I didn’t want so that I only had the most important part of my image left. I can then move this part of the image over to another background without making it look messy.

Crop- I used the crop tool to get rid of any negative space and to remove parts of images which could not be deleted by the magic wand tool.

Eraser- I used this tool to remove small parts of my image which were hard to reach with other tools. This came in handy when I had to colour the stripes in on my models dress because the lines were very small so when the paintbrush went over the line I could easily erase the mistake and this was easy because I can change the size of my eraser and that way I can remove the unwanted parts.

Spot Healing Brush- I used this tool to remove any slight marks my model has on her skin. This made my image look clearer and more professional.

Rectangle tool- I used this tool to colour my background on my front cover. I made sure that the rectangle was a block colour and then dragged it to cover my A4 page. This then changed my paper colour.

Paintbrush- I used this tool to soften the edges of my main cover image. There was a slight white and green line around my model so I lowered the opacity of my black paintbrush and painted around her to get rid of the outline.

Horizontal Type- I used this tool to put text onto my magazine.

Evaluation Question 5

Target Audience Question 4

The first issue of vogue was realised in December 1992. There are only 2 similarities between both the old and the new vogue magazines. The lady on the front cover of the first issue is in a long pink dress which shows she likes to wear beautiful and fashionable clothes.

The contents page of this particular magazine is very eye catching. The colours are very bold and the picture is in the centre of the magazine. The magazine clearly shows what the magazine is about. The way the models are posed and what they are wearing shows they are part of the fashion industry. You would not see these types of outfits in a teenage magazine etc. The text on this page is very clear and is easy to identify what page which article is on. They have made the page numbers larger than the main text so that it is easy to see the numbers and they are not blended in with the rest of the smaller text.