Planning for Front Cover

Colour Scheme;I have decided to use a colour scheme that contains three colours. The reason I have chosen this number is because it is conventional, professional and it looks the part. I will use the colours hot pink, yellow and grey. These colours, I believe, will give a good vibe to the magazine as they yellow and pink will stand out on the grey and the grey will keep things less chaotic on the magazine.

Here is a preview of the colours that I have picked. They weren’t my only choice as I also thought about: blue,

black, yellow and red, black, blue. But I decided on the yellow and grey, for the reasons above.

What My Front Cover May Look Like;

Picture Picture

Master

Head

Call out

Headline

Headline

Headline

Buzz

Word

Plugs

TeasersTeasers

Picture

Master Head

Headline Headline

Headline

Buzz Word

Call Out

Headline

Plugs

Teasers

Idea 1. Idea 2.

What I Will Include;

My front cover will have one single image to make sure the audience know that it is important. The image I use will portray the magazine. I will however include ‘teasers’, ‘callouts’ and ‘buzz-words’ so that the front cover and link and flow nicely with the rest of the magazine. The master head will be very dominant (probably the most important thing on the page) – the next slide will show some duplicates of what font it may be…

Master Head Ideas;

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I got my master head designs from the website www.dafont.com I have decided to use this font for my magazines master head;

I chose this one as I believe that it will stand out and also it is quite different because of all of the lines, so it will be easily noticed.

Modes of Address

For my magazine I want to write it in an informal manner as I think that my target audience would prefer a more chilled out magazine than anything else, especially as they are mostly read whilst travelling and on breaks in college or at home. I shall also make sure I direct the audience by using words such as ‘you’ so that they feel a part of the magazine and important – hopefully making them want to buy the magazine again.

Planning for Contents Page

Contents Page;

I will be using the same colour scheme – hot pink, yellow and grey for my contents page so that the magazine is the same throughout. I will however write the body copy in black, as it will be easier for the audience to read.

Again there is another image of the colours I will use.

What My Contents Page May Look Like;

Heading

PictureText

Headline

Headline

Headline

Headline

Headline

Headline

PictureBuzz

Words

Heading Picture

Headline

Headline

Headline

Headline

Picture

Text

Teasers

Teasers

Buzz Words

Idea 1. Idea 2.

Which Fronts Will I Use;

For the body copy of the contents page I shall use the font I am using now ‘Georgia’ because it is easy to read but it isn’t a boring font either. If I mention the name of the magazine I will use the font for the master head which is, . For the headlines I shall still use ‘Georgia’ however, I will CAPITALISE all of the letters (to meet conventions) and I shall also use the effect of bold so that it stands out much more. Then for the heading I will use the same font I’m using for the headings of this, which is ‘Broadway’. I think that ‘Georgia’ and ‘Broadway’ are well suited together and that the fonts work nicely with one another.

Planning For Double Page

Spread

Colour Scheme;

Again I will use the same colour scheme as I wanted to use the same colour scheme all the way through the magazine so that the audience can tell it’s the same magazine and that it isn’t mismatched or anything. And I shall also have the body copy in the colour black, again for the same reasons, so that the audience are able to read the magazine easily. Also it is a typical convention of magazines and if I’m looking at a mainstream audience I need to ensure that I follow as many conventions as possible. Here, again, is a picture of the colours I shall use; (hot pink, yellow and grey)

What My Double Page Spread May Look Like;

Picture

Pull Quot

e

Heading

Body

Copy

Body

Copy

Picture

Heading

Body

Copy

Body

Copy

Body

Copy

Pull Quote

Body

Copy

Idea 1. Idea 2.

Which Fonts Will I Use;

I shall use the same fonts as I am using throughout the magazine. So I will use ‘Georgia’ for the body copy of the text. I will also continue to use the same font for the heading as I did on the contents page which will be ‘Broadway’ I feel that this is a strong font for the headings whilst at the same time being quite fun.

ReflectionOverall I found that the planning task did take a lot of organisation

skills. For deciding the fonts/colours/modes of address that I would use, I needed to plan ahead so that I could ensure that I was doing the planning for my magazine as well as I could as all of this determines how my magazine will actually turn out. The hardest thing I found was organising the photo shoot because not everybody could do the same dates which ended up it being a very last minute thing on the Saturday (when originally I planned for the photo shoot to be finished by the Friday) I feel that with picking the name for the magazine that was hard as you have to chose a name that you think that the audience will agree with, which can be difficult – I went from thinking should I just use one singular letter like ‘M’ (representing both the words music or/and magazine) or do I use an oxymoron like ‘Bitter Sweet’ and just one word like ‘echo’ or ‘loud’. You have to be fairly decisive whilst planning a magazine because otherwise you could spend forever on it. I feel that all of the outfits that had been worn in my shoots were very stereotypical for the genre of ‘trendie. I also think that they would be likely to be in a mainstream magazine like ‘NME’ or ‘Q’.