Existing Magazine Front Cover Photograph Analysis

I wanted to look at existing magazine front cover photographs that target the same market as me: teenage girls. Sugar is one of the most popular magazines that has the target market of teenage girls.

Photograph
The front cover contains a photograph that has Rihanna looking directly at the audience; this is effective because it catches the reader's attention. Rihanna is smiling which reflects the target audience of Sugar magazine - teenage girls. As my magazine has the same target audience as Sugar, the person on the front of my magazine will be smiling.

Mise-en-scene
The colours of Rihanna's clothes and make-up match the colour scheme of the magazine; this is effective because the magazine looks more professional and Rihanna appears to fit into the style of the magazine. Also, the magazine is likely to use a colour scheme that matches it's target market's sense of style. For example, teenage girls are likely to wear the same style of clothes that Rihanna is wearing on the cover.

Position Of Photograph
The photograph of Rihanna is positioned behind the masthead; this is because the magazine isn't confident enough to cover part of the masthead with the photograph. Q magazine has a much bigger target market than Sugar magazine, therefore Q magazine is confident enough to cover part of the masthead with the photograph. My magazine has the same target market as Sugar magazine, therefore i don't feel confident enough to cover part of the masthead on my magazine with my photograph.

Double Page Spread Mock Up

This is the 1st mock up of my double page spread. I have continued to ue my colour scheme and the font 'minipop' on this page. I have used a long pink rectangle at both the top and bottom of the page in order to show that the double page contains the same article. I plan to use a photograph that fills the whole page, and i plan to add text into the circles.

Contents Page Mock Up 3

This is the 3rd draft of my contents page. I decided to put the 'In Every Issue' section nearer to the bottom of the page so that i had more space to place my photos into; the page looks more organised now.

Mock Up Contents Page 2

This is the second draft of my contents page. I decided to split the page into different sections: On The Cover, Features, In Every Issue. I did this as i wanted my contents page to look more organized, and for it to be clearer and easier for young girls to read.

Mock Up Contents Page

This is a mock up of my contents page without photographs. I plan to add a photograph in the large space in the middle of the page. I have continued to use my colour scheme on this page as I have used the same colours as on the front cover. I have also used a variety of fonts on this page, and i have also used the same fonts as used on the front cover. I have included a section at the bottom of the page which would be a weekly feature; it is a short letter from the editor. I have also included some weekly features on my contents page: What's Hot Now, Win Win Win, Exclusive Interview, Posters, Your Letters. At the top right hand corner of the page, i have included a small photograph of the front cover from the same week next to the text: In This Issue.

Front Cover Mock Up

This is a mock up of my front cover without the photograph. I will add a photograph into the space on my front cover. I have continued to use the same colour scheme as i stated in my planning, and i have used a variety of fonts on my front cover, aswell as my main font 'minipop'.

Price Of Magazine

I have decided to price my magazine at £1.50 as my target market is young girls. Young girls will not have a lot of money to spend on magazines as they will use pocket money, therefore i wanted to set a reasonable price. My magazine will have quite a lot of pages, therefore i didn't want to price it too cheap.

Mock Up Front Cover

This is the basic mock up of my front cover. I will continue to use this theme on both my contents page and double page spread.

Magazine Names

These are my ideas for the name of my magazine. I asked the other students in my class to choose which name they thought would be best for a pop music magazine and most people picked Cindy Pop. As my target market is girls aged around 11 - 15 years old, i think that the name is suitable.

Magazine Layout Idea Plan 1

This is the first draft of my magazine front cover layout. I have included the main features:pug, masthead, photograph and splash.

Magazine Layout Idea Plan 1

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Colour Schemes

I used a colour schemes website in order to find out which colours i wanted to use for my magazine. I plan to use a red/pink colour scheme as my magazine's target audience/market is young girls as it is a pop magazine.

Colour Schemes

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Pop Music Magazine Font Ideas

These are the fonts that will fit in with the pop theme of my music magazine. I asked the students in my class to choose the font that they thought would be the most effective for a pop music magazine. 6 of the 11 students in my class said that 'minipop' was their favourite. 2 said that 'poprock was their favourite. 2 said that 'cutiepop' was their favourite. 1 student said that '60's pop' was their favourite. Therefore, i will use the font 'minipop' for my magazine cover.

School Magazine Contents Page Draft 3 Final Draft

This is the final draft of my school magazine contents page.
In order to improve the second draft, i changed the background colour in order to make it look more attractive. I aslo added two more photographs of the school in order to give parents more of an insight into the school.

School Magazine Front Cover Draft 3 Final Draft

This is the final draft of my school magazine front cover.
In order to improve my second draft, i changed the background colour as when i asked some students their opinions, they said that the background colour was boring as it was plain white. I also changed the name of my school magazine as when i asked some students their opinion, they said that they didn't like the name 'Biddulph High Flyer' and they thought that it didn't suit the magazine.

School Magazine Contents Page Draft 2

This is the second draft of my School magazine contents page.
In order to improve my first draft, i re-arranged the sub-titles and increased the size of them so that they filled the whole page and there is no longer empty space at the bottom of the page. I also added another photograph showing the school acheiving their outstanding Ofstead report.

School Magazine Front Cover Draft 2

This is the second draft of my school magazine front cover.
In order to improve the first draft, i added more cross-heads and re-aranged them around the photograph. I also added another photograph showing the outstanding Ofstead report that Biddulph High School acheived; this links to the 'Results Are In' cross-head.

School Magazine Contents Page

This is the first draft of my school magazine contents page.

I asked some students for strengths and weaknesses and this is what they said:

The text overlaps her face, there is a large white empty space, the titles of the articles are a bit boring, the colour scheme reflects the colours of the school logo.

School Magazine Cover

This is the first draft of my school magazine cover.

I asked some students for the strengths and weaknesses of my school magazine cover. This is what they said:

More subheadings are needed, add a splash, use coloured background, a good font is used. 

School Magazine Preliminary

School Magazine Preliminary

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School Magazine Contents Page Research

I carried out this research on school magazine contents pages in order to give me an idea of the techniques that make a school magazine contents page look effective and the techniques that make a school magazine contents page look uneffective. This will help me when designing my own school magazine contents page for my preliminary task.

School Magazine Contents Page Research

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Double Page Spread Research

I carried out this research in order to give me an idea of the effects used on double page spreads that make them look effective.

Double Page Spread Research

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School Magazines Research

I carried out this research in order to give me an idea of some of the techniques that i can use on my school magazine preliminary task.

School Magazines Research

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Existing Magazines Research

I carried out this research to give myself an idea of the layout, colour schemes and techniques used on music magazines in order to make them effective. This research will help me with my music magazine project.

Existing Magazines Research

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Media Word Cloud

This is a word cloud I made using words associated with media and media products.

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I am Amy Towers and this is my AS Media Studies blog. I will post my research and my music magazine project onto this blog.