Front Cover Potential Images

Here are some potential images for my front cover of my magazine. Images will also be considered for the contents page and double page spread.

NB. images may appear more blurry in this video.

Conventions, Producer and Target Audience Essay

Here is the marked version of my conventions, producer and target audience essay. All feedback is positive and I am pleased with the outcome.

Potential Images

Here is a video compilation of the images taken at my first photo shoot. These are a few of the selected shots  including me and local band, The Maverick Rejects. After discussing thoughts with my lecturer, I have decided that a new photoshoot needs to be completed as the overall quality of these images has been worsened by the interference of too much high key lighting. These have however given me an idea of what kind of poses work and what don't which will help for any future photoshoots. Also, I will be using some of these images for the other pages in my magazine- the contents page and double page spread, as it was agreed that these images weren't of high enough quality for my front cover.
N.B. The clarity of images may have been affected in this video.

Colours

This is the image that I have potentially chosen as my main cover image for the front cover of my magazine. I have decided to use the colours featured on the model (pinks, blues and black ((hair pin))) as a house style to be maintained through out my magazine.

After gathering results from my survery, I found that blue and pink were the most popular colour choices amongst my target audience. Therefore, I want to incorporate these colours into my magazine to attract my audience and please their preferences.

Below are the stock colours I will be using, but I will also be experimenting with different shades of these colours when I come to create my product.

As previously mentioned, blue was the second most popular colour amongst my target audience. I think this is because there are lots of shades of blue and the colour has many different connotations. eg. light blue= the sky. Also, boys tend to like the colour blue, and a lot of girls enjoy some element of a "tom-boy-ish" lifestyle, be it with what the watch or through a colour. Not all girls enjoy the stereotypically girly pink colour and might find this as a less eccentric substitute.

I have chosen black as a colour that will be used only to highlight important elements of my magazine, such as an outline for text as as some textual elements that need to be noticed more so than other text.

Pink was voted the most popular colour in my survery amongst my target audience. This colour has an immediate connotation of girls and fun- something that my magazine most definitely focuses on! I will be using this colour as It will please my audience, it being their favourite colour and to help convey the fun message across my magazine that I want.

Using these colours means that I am using a three shade colour palette, a typical convention of most magazines. As I want to achieve the most professional look that I can for my product, using conventions of professional magazines is something that I am looking to do.

Yellow Research

I asked my facebook research group what they thought about the colour yellow being used in a teen pop magazine as I feel that it might be an interesting colour to add to my colour palette.

As you can see, everyone selected "yes", they like the colour yellow and feel that it would work in a teen pop magazine. Additionally, some helpful comments were made stating how the colour yellow makes my target audience feel. This has been extremely useful as I can now incorporate yellow into mty colour palette.

Fonts

I have chosen 4 fonts of which I am considering using for the front cover of my magazine. These potential fonts may also be used throughout the magazine and are chosen from website "Dafont.com". However, these may not be the fonts that I use in my final product. Here are the selected fonts and I have highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of each.

I liked this font becauase it was bold and had a quriky look to it. This would ensure that my audience could clearly see the font and it would grab their attention immediately as a front cover font. However, I believe that the font is to "cartoon-esque" and doesn't quite convey a "girly" enough identity across to the audience.

I liked this font the most out of the other font selections that I made. I believe that the font has the bold quality that I need to capture the reader's attention, but the rounded edges of the font connote a "friendly, bubbly" feel to it, something that is important for my readers to feel. I am considering using this as my front cover mast head font as I believe that I can play around with it in Photo Shop to create a perfect, stand out font style.

This font is one that I may use more for the contents page or enigma codes rather than a main sell line etc. I think this because it isn't bold enough to capture the readers attention as a main sell-line, but has that relatable quality of handwriting for other textual elements that the reader may want to read for further detail.

This font is one that I may use more for the contents page or enigma codes rather than a main sell line etc. I think this because it isn't bold enough to capture the readers attention as a main sell-line, but has that relatable quality of handwriting for other textual elements that the reader may want to read for further detail.