I have made flat plan, of what my magazine front cover is going to look like. I have used alot of variety, with the different article, pugs, and images, from the images that I have taken and is going to use for my magazine. My main image, is going to be in the centre, and is inline with the rule of thirds. I'm also going to be using a strapline, at the bottom of the page, to give more information to the readers, of what is going to be inside the magazine. Since my magazine, is mainly a music magazine, instead of fashion, I only included one piece of advertisment, of fashion, so that my target audience of teenage to adult women, who love fashion and POP/Indie music, will want to buy the product. I will also use some seconadry images, of of my own, to show what the article insider, to show the readers what's going on in the article.

 

I plan to have ‘’Personal’’, as my name of the magazine. I wanted ‘’Personal'' as my main title, to give a sense to the audience that this magazine, will have feeling that it’s personal to them, and make it like it has all the information they want to see or read in the magazine. I plan to have my magazine, be based on POP/Indie music. 'Top of the Pops' is a good example of the type of subgenre and idea of what my magazine, is going to present to the readers.

My primary target audience will be mostly teenagers, to adults, as the magazine wouldn't be as suitable for young children. For my magazine, I will be producing a hybrid, of Music/fashion. The reason it's based more on the teenage, to adult side, is because, there's going to be some fashion articles inside which young children wouldn't really be interested in, and most of the fashion, will be more on the dare-ish fashion from top brands, such as Top shop, Urban Outfitters etc., which young children wouldn’t' be interested in. Also since young children listen to some pop groups, I don’t think it'll be suitable, as some of the celebrities that are going to be inside E.G. Miley Cyrus, who doesn't show a suitable image for young children, but to teenagers and adults mainly, since she is also in the same age group. Also Beaur Media Group will be who publishes my magazine.

The features that I will be including, in my magazine are competitions, such as, to win a student voucher to Top Shop, etc. Also I will be mainly putting up music ranks/music charts, to show the reader where their favourite artists and bands are up to in the music charts, and by them engaging with the artist/bands. I will also put up different website links, so readers can use their social networking sites, to keep in contact with the celebrity or company.

My magazine will be distributed on the web, as everyone in this generation, who is a teenager, will have some kind of contact with the internet, and they seem to use more internet than buying a magazine at a store, so it will fit well for the teenage viewers.  Finally, the cost of my magazine will be a fair amount, so that it would be easier for teens/young adults, to buy a magazine daily. I’m thinking around the price of £1-£2, for my magazine, so that it’s fair, and that it’s not too pricey but also not too cheap.

 For my unique selling point, I’m planning of, putting it on big billboards, in busy motorways or bypass’s or generally on a main road, to attract the audience’s attention. I will try and make it so, it could be advertised on the T.V or social networking sites such as YouTube and Facebook or Twitter, as it will look more professionalized, and would make you want to buy the magazine, by adding in the main interesting features to my magazine. 

 

 

For the cover of my magazine, I have made up some more fonts that i thought would be suitab;e for my magazine cover masthead.-

 

 

 

Definaition of Sub Genre: A subcategory within a particular genre.

These 5 magazine front covers all show a sub genre on their magazine. The pop magazine, is mainly music, but has a subgenre of fashion. The beauty magazine is mainly beauty, but also has a subgenre of fashion. and pop magazine, is mainly pop but has a subgenre of Sport for comic relief.

Definition of Genre: A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

These 5 images of different magazine front covers, are all examples of different genres. For example, there is a fashion magazine, beauty magazine, Rock magazine, POP magazine, and a Sport magazine. There are lot's of others but these seem to be the main magazines that are used.

For my mast head, I wanted to make some ideas on what I could use and how it is going to relate to my magazine and target audience. For this first one, I thought that it would be simple, but since my magazine, is going to be Music based with different genres of music, and also different fashion ideas, that it was abit too simple.

For this font, for the mast head, I thought, that I was going to use a patriotic theme, as it could represent the British and American singers/bands, with the red, blue and white. I thought this would be suitable with a target audience of female and male.

 For this font, I went with the all black, and the simple format and a slant, for the target audience of unisex, but more on the rock, casual side, to the magazine, if I was making my magazine, in that theme. Also it could relate to some of the fashion I might use, instead of a high statement fashion that is going around now, and so I thought that this would be appropriate.

For this font, is more towards the target audience of female's, I thought it would be appropriate to make this idea of the pink colour, and fancy font, so that it was obvious to the readers that this is a girl magazine. Also it could help, with the fact that my magazine is also fashion based, so it could have an inspiration to the fashion that could be taking place.

 For this font, I wanted to try and make it unisex, incase I wanted to add some male fashion, or maybe for the more rock types of genre, and I also added the red on the first letter ''P'', so that it would stand out, and that it would be appealing for the females. Also it works for the music genre if I was doing a rock themed magazine. 

For this font, I wanted to make it unusual, as if you wouldn't expect it to be a music or fashion magazine. By this I used the colour green, as it is an unusual colour to have for a magazine.

I might use this photo to be used for the front cover as it will create attraction to the guitar and will also attract the reader to it as this is going to be a fashion/music magazine.

Iam also thinking of using this photo that I took, because it clearly shows the band ''The Beatles'' who are very popular in the music industry, and with a guitar in the background will, make the read think that the article will be about the beatles and will make them want to buy the magazine, to see what it is about.

I want to also use these photo's too, as for my features and specials for my magazine, I wanted to make a competition inside the magazine, to win a ''free guitar'', which would be great from them music lovers, who love to play guitar.

I'm also going to use this photo, as one of my secondary images for the contents, as it shows the reader the audience dancing, but you can't see the artist. so it'll make them wonder who they are dancing to. I thought this would be appropriate at it looks very crowed and that it looks like a suitable area for a music event.

I'm using this picture, for my magazine, to use to show, how busy the  festival was, for an artist at Wake stock. I want to use this, to make the reader interested in what is going on, and why it's so busy. 

I'm thinking of using this picture, to use for the secondary images, to help show the different gig's and events that happened at a festival.

For this contents page, you can see that the 3 images around the sides of the page, are all images, of artists/bands of different music, will show the reader, what will be inside the magazine, and will give them an insider of what it's about, so they will have to buy the magazine to see what it's about. The title on the page, is very plain and simple, which suggests that it's very classic, and the red writing underneath the title, will stand out, as it is on a white background, and it will show that the magazine, will still have an interest in music, and it shows that it will be  important to people who love music. All the contents and the page numbers are on the left hand side of the page, with small description underneath it, to give the reader more of an insider on what the story is going to be about inside, and the reader will want to want to buy the magazine to read it. Also there is a close up of Lana Del Rey, which will make the reader focus more on the picture, because it doesn't show her whole, face and since her face is full of blood, people will want to know why she has it on her face and will want to read about it. Also the red around the whole page, make the page numbers stand out, also the fact that the magazine logo 'Q' is also in red so it goes with the magazine colour scheme. Also another reason why the red is very important, is because, some of the small paragraph at the top of the page, is in read which will indicate to the reader that it is an important part of the text, and will take it stand out from the white background.

 

I pulled out a survey for atleast 10 poeple in my class or anyone who answerd on twitter. I carried out these results to help me with what I should put or involve in my magazine. After I got answers and results from the 10 poeple I asked, I developed them into these bar hcarts to help me see what poeple have chosen to see what is going to be on my magazine.

For the first, question, ''What is your gender?'', there seems to be an even amount of female and males, so therefore I would have to decide if I want my magazine to be mainly based on the female population, or the male, or possibly both, but I would have to include, fashion that males would want to wear.

For the second question on my survey, ''What is your age?'', all of the answers were around the ages of 10-20 years, which I will have to make my magazine, suitable for the teenage, or coming up to teenage years. This will also help me decide what kind of generation, I can base my music and fashion choices I will want to include in my music.

For the third question on my survey, ''What radio station do you listen to the most?'', the majority of my results are people who listen to Capital FM, which is more around the POP/Indie side, which is what I was thinking of putting on my magazine, making the readers more interested, but still keeping the other radio stations on too, but have it more based around Capital FM sort of music. This also didn't with the forth question ''What genre of Music do you like?'', with people who mostly listen to rock, so I’m going to try to include some pop/indie and rock into my magazine.

For the fifth question from my survey,'' How much are you willing to spend on the magazine?'', Most of my results are coming towards to range of £1-£3, as most of the population will be mainly teenage girls and boys, who wouldn't want to spend allot on the magazine.

For the sixth question from my survey, ''What specials do you want to see on my magazine?'' Most of the results are aimed towards V.I.P Tickets and backstage passes, as allot of people will want to see their favourite artists, and make them want to buy the magazine so they can see more about it inside.

For the seventh question rom my survey,'' What social Networks do you use?'' All of the choices have been answered but the most chosen was Instagram and Twitter, as most of their favourite music artist, and bands have these apps, and I think i will include these, with photos and quotes from what they have said to turn it into an article, and make them want to buy the magazine even more.

For the eighth question on my survey,'' What features would you want to see on the magazine?'' Most of the results are aimed towards the interviews of bands, so they can get some information about the bands/artist, so they feel up to date with them.

For the ninth question from my survey, ''What would you like to see as adverts ''The majority of the results are mainly, Clothing, so I will be making adverts based on clothing so people can get student discounts on their favourite clothing stores/brands.

Finally for the last question from my survey, ''What is your favourite band?'' There were allot of people who put their own bands as their favourite. Since allot of the bands are Rock themed, I will try to use as many bands they have put, and use them as secondary images, to show that their favourite bands are in the magazine and they will want to buy it.

 

 

This is the finished look of my ‘Aquinas’ contents page. Again, I wanted to keep the contents page, looking very busy and have allot of varieties to look forward too. The editor’s letter is at the bottom of the page, on top of the very noticeable guitar. I tried to make it sound like the style of the magazine rather than how I actually speak, but still wanted to readers to know who they are reading from and get an understanding of why I made the magazine. Also I tried to make it sound like I was a woman, as my magazine is mainly focused on a target audience of a female viewer. The largest picture on the contents page is the guitar, which means that it is the main feature of the magazine; ad is also a completion to win a free guitar, which is great for people who love music, seeing as this is a music/fashion magazine.

Also under each image, there is a number next to it, to give the reader a better navigation, to where the article is in the magazine. I have also put it on the left hand side of the page, with a small description of the article, so that the viewers have a short summary of the article and decide whether they want to read the article. There are also different pictures link in with the music genre, and will also allow the reader to see a glance at who will be featured in the magazine. I have also used, red as the main colour scheme for the contents page, as it makes the headlines and the features title, stand out for the audience to make the contents pages to look very clear for the reader to see and locate where the articles are. The contents are split into sections, so the reader has a clear view on what are on the contents page. There is also a small advertisement, for a 10% discount of TopShop, which will also attract younger female girls who are in college and need clothes for college, and will want to buy the magazine, so they can see more of will be said about the advertisement.

In the end, this is finished completed Magazine front cover for my magazine. I think that this front cover is very suitable for the readers and with all the different colours that have been involved like the red, will attract attention to the viewers for them to buy the magazine. I have included a Top Shop student discount as it said in my results from the questionnaire, that most people shop at Top Shop, that it will make the reader turn to the page where the information is. I think i successfully, made this cover very observant and full of activities and content.As you can see from the front of my magazine, that I have use many different varieties to look forward too on my magazine. For example, the promo's and pugs that are inserted onto my magazine, have different artist's that are music that the readers will most likely like and would like to read.

I wanted to use a picture from, a student from college, to use for my magazine, because since it’s for my college, I thought that it would be appropriate and suitable for my magazine as it’s made for a college view. Also the image is in the right rule of thirds so the audience is attracted to the person who is on the front of the magazine. For my target audience being a female audience from ages around 12-28, I wanted to make the front cover, more girlie, with the famous celebrities such as Beyonce and Bruno Mars, as it will attract to the female viewers more than the male. Also it will bring in attention to the reader as it mentions different adverts and specials on the front of it having celebrity posters inside the magazine.

The colour scheme for my magazine, will be mainly, red, white, blue and black, since my college is mainly, white, red and blue.  I wanted to use the red for some of the adverts, to make them stand out more for the viewers so that it will make them want to buy the magazine. The article in the coloured star under the mast head is large, suggesting that it could be the most important article. I have also used a pull out quote, to help with the publicity of the magazine, when it sais ‘’Win Katy Perry tickets and V.I.P backstage passes’’ to help draw attention to the reader and to make them want to go to that particular page so they can see what the competition is about and will make them want to buy the magazine and to also attract more to the female audience and give them an indication that this is a female based magazine. Finally I have also put the price range at the top right hand corner of the magazine, in blue with a white background, to make it stand out to the audience, and to show the reader how much the magazine is worth.

On this double page spread from a music based magazine, you can see that the set up of this double page spread is not one that is commonly used as there is not much imagery used. There only seems to be on photo of Lady GaGa to be on the page, but it still attracts the reader as she is a main, popular celebrity. Also the image mainly takes up the left side of the page, making it easy to identify who the artist is,, whereas the article is full on the right side of the page to make it well balanced and not have too much of imagery or writing.

The artist in this article, who is the main feature, is someone who is extremely well known in the music industry, there are barely any clothes that she is wearing which may suggest that she is someone who doesn't care about what people thinking about her unusual appearance.

This vintage old colour scheme of this page, fit's well with the red. The red is highlighted to get the reader's attention and is to make it look more interesting and less boring will it just going to be black and white. making it more easy and interesting for readers to want to read. Such as the letter ''L'' that is big, bold and in red, which is also the first letter if the artist's name ''Lady GaGa'' and also to go with the magazines logo at the bottom right hand corner of the page.

The main title fit’s in really well the image in on the page, because the whole page gives it this fancy, old fashioned feeling, since the image is in black and white and nothing dramatic seems to be going on in the picture, which gives the article a very suttle look. Also the columns in this article seem to be well structured and simple, which fit's in well with the theme of a sophisticated look. The ''S'' at the start of one of the paragraphs, indicates the start of the important part of the article.

My idea's for my Music/Fashion magazine.