Front Page First Draft (Using All Original Images)

Website Design for TGIP Magazine

I have made a draft website to show another platform in which i can distribute my product. My target audience use the internet a lot, this enables them to read the magazine, look at images and online videos in more detail. I have placed links on the website which will send you to the social media site you want to follow us on, social media is very popular within my target audience so this will enable my audience who read the magazine to follow us on different platforms and also giving us free advertisement. Even though the magazine is based in the music genre i have put make up tutorials on there as my readers will look up to the artists within the magazine and will want to look like them. I have made this exclusive to the online magazine enticing my audience to subscribe as you are getting more out of your money.

Test shots of Lucy

Test Shots

These are a variety of test shots that I have taken for my magazine, as it was my first time using the green room and the lighting the pictures didn’t turn out as good as I would have hoped. As I have done this I have realised I need better quality pictures for my final main image on my front cover.

This is what my target audience think I should call my magazine

Testing a Wacom Tabl

For the introduction I created my custom logo for the background in adobe illustrator, once I had completed this, I then imported it into a intro video template and edited the colours and the speed/effects of the video.

After I tested using a Wacom tablet on a mac, I was testing the handwriting functions which I could later use for signatures of 'celebrities' in my magazine. I played around with the pressure setting to help create a more realistic appearance. You can see a little demo in the video above.

Photography Research Double Page Spread

Photography Research Contents Page

Photography Research

Lip stick and eye shadow ideas for my model

I have used a different variety of coloured lips which all relate to the connotations of the POP genre which are the colours pink, nude and use of glitter. I have also put on there different eye shadows from pink to nude as pink is the connotation of pop and a nude, natural colour is the connotation of my target audience as they are very young.

 

Images I may use on my magazine

Social Class Demographic Table

 

The social class table was very important when deciding what content I should put in my magazine when I new which demographic I was aiming at. It helped me decide what my artist would be wearing in terms of colours and design to make it appropriate to my audience. It also helped me decide what kind of competitions I would be including because I couldn’t put in a free weekend away knowing they wouldn’t be of the correct age to go so this enabled me to decide on what free giveaways to put init. I decided on free posters and a discount of a subscription.

Social class & Demographics

Focus Group

My focus groups helped me a lot in a way in how I now know what my target audience like and what their opinion is on what I should be putting into my magazine. It has helped me to make the decision on what to call my magazine as I had a choice of 7 different names and they have told me the one that they like the most so I know that it will appeal to my target audience. They have also helped me in knowing what kind of contents to put into my magazine i.e. free posters, competitions to win festival and concert tickets. I found out that my target audience are willing to pay as much as £4 for my magazine and for it to be published twice a month which I didn’t expect at all. When doing my focus group I found out who their favourite pop artists are so I am able to use them in my magazine to entice my audience to buy my magazine. I knew that the colour scheme I was going to use was a mixture of pink purple yellow and white, when asking the question in my focused group they confirmed to me that they was the colours they expected to see meaning my research was correct. I asked them what their hobbies are because I thought this would give me a advantage of what content I could put in my magazine and what competitions I could use.

Doing my focus group was very important due to the fact it helped me to figure out what my target audience like and that I aren’t creating something that they don’t want to buy. I have specified before my focus group that the main gender I am aiming my magazine to is females so this made my research more valuable. The main point it has helped me with is the naming of the magazine, what colours to use within it, how many times a month it should be published and what they would like to win.

 

Before and After (Edited)

I used the pen tool to draw around her, then I used the clone stamp to change the background. I then added colour curves to emphasise lighting, added brightness, contrast and edited the levels. I then used the pen tool to draw round some baggy material, then i used the clone stamp to remove it. After that i duplicated a bit of the fluffy edge on the other side and added it to the bit I removed to make it look real.

Official Top 10 Charts

This is the official TOP 10 Charts. I have looked at this because I wanted to get some inspiration for what to include on my magazine. This helped me understand who's popular right now in the pop genre and helped me to realise what artists I can put within my magazine. I also got some ideas of colour schemes from the front covers of the albums especially Meghan Trainors as it is bright pink and a baby blue and those are the colours I was thinking about using in my magazine.

Existing Magazine Titles

Magazine Name Ideas

Origional image used on my 3rd Google mock up front page

A Google mock up with a combination of the thing that i liked from my other two google mock up front pages

I took what I liked from both of my Google mock ups that I had already done and put them into another mock up with another image. Underneath there are 8 steps in which I took to completing the final piece.

A few steps in how i made my first google mock up front page

Mood Board

My mood board consists of different names I may be calling my magazine, they also have different fonts and colours so when it comes to making my front cover I will know straight away which font and colour I will want to use. Also on my mood board I have put some clothes on it that I want the person on the front of my magazine to be wearing. In the top right hand corner I have put things on there that I believe the target audience will like varying from twitter/Facebook, McDonalds and make up. Underneath that I have 5 pop artists all stood differently, these are the stances I am considering my model standing like on the front page of my magazine as the main image. Finally underneath that I have 4 different pop magazines so when it comes to making my front cover I can look at them to see what conventions I should be putting on my front cover.

What i think the model on the front cover of my final magazine should be wearing to follow the conventions of a pop magzine.

Here are 16 separate pieces of clothing. When doing my research on other pop magazines I realised that these was the kind of clothes that the pop artist wear on the front covers. I thought about what kind of clothing that my target audience would wear but what is also affordable for he public. All of these pieces of clothing is from local stores and are affordable. I think putting my model is clothing that is affordable and stylish this will entice them into reading my magazine.

 

My second google mock up Front Page and Contents page

 

After making my first Google mock up I thought on my second one I will change it up a little bit. I put the main image further down meaning you could see a little bit more of the masthead because when I had my main image further up you couldn't see what my magazine Google mock up was called. At first it looked ok as I didn't have anything else on the front cover but when I started adding things onto I realised what I had done gave me a problem. As you can see the top bit of the magazine is very empty and bare but the bottom half is very crowded. Having this practice has helped me to know what not to do when it comes to making my final product. However whilst making this mock up I realised some of the things I have included on it I would like to put them on my final magazine. I believe it has made it look very effective and that is the bit where I have put "posters inside include" with 3 different posters that will be within, I believe that this will draw in the audience.

On my second Google mock up contents page I thought that I would follow the conventions of other pop magazines contents pages by putting the front cover on the contents page. After doing this i decided that his was a good idea and I am now considering putting that on my final contents page as it is very conventional but on my first Google mock up contents page I didn't do this. I looked at other contents pages and I saw that they put another big image of something that would be on the inside of the magazine, after doing this I realised I didn't like it and I would not be including this on my final piece.

My 1st google mock up Front Page and Contents page

Conventions analysis 3

Conventions analysis 2

Convention Analysis

Genre Research

First draft of my reader profile

Main Brief

To design a front cover, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be origional, a minimum of four images must be used.

Preliminary Task Evaluation

My final preliminary task front cover

My contents page digital draft/ mock up

How i made my plug and my masthead

How i changed the effects on my magazine

How i changed the ball

My magazine analysis

Different camera framings