Research & Planning - Model 3

Name: Samantha Goodwin

Age: 19

University: Learning Fashion in London

Hair Colour: Brunette, Straight

Build: Slim

Magazine: Contents Page (Fashion Editor)

Research and Planning - Model 2

Name: Gemma Davies

Age: 16

College: Tameside College

Hair Colour: Blonde, Straight

Build: Slim

Magazine: Front Cover & Double Page Spread

Gemma has also kindly agreed to model for my magazine, she will be modelling for my contents page.

Research and Planning - Model 1

Name: Charlotte Derry

Age: 16

College: Hyde Clarendon Sixth Form College

Hair: Red, Curly

Build: Slim

Magazine: Contents Page

This information will help me to plan out how to dress, style, pose etc. my models in the future for my magazine.

Charlotte has kindly agreed to be my model for my front cover and double page spread.

Research and Planning - AS Production Timetable

Here is my Production Timetable, this will help me to organise everything e.g. Photoshoots, Column, Models.

Hopefully I'll be able to keep up with my time table, if anything changes I'll update the timetable in a different post.

Research and Planning - Interview With Audience 3

Here's my interview with Shema

Research and Planning - Interview With Audience 2

Here is my 2nd interview with Melissa

Research and Planning - Interview With Audience 1

Here is my first interview with Charlotte.

Research and Planning - Audience Interview Questions

 

These are my questions to ask my age range audience interview questions, I am going to ask the audience what their opinions are on my draftsand what needs improving.

Research and Planning - Questionnaire results

Here are my results from my questionnaire. This will help me in the future to find out what males and females like in a pop magazine.

Research and Planning - Questionnaire

Research and Planning - Podcast

Here is my 1st Podcast about my work so far in Media.

Research and Planning - Double Page Spread Analysis

Genre 

The genre for this magazine is pop, reason why I think this is because 2 males from a popular pop boy group, One Direction, are on the double page spread.

Target Audience

Could be mostly for females but also males too. I think it's for mostly girls because the pages have 2 attractive males from the popular boy band and I also think think the pages are towards some males too because of the colour scheme, blue & grey is likely to be a boys colour but I think the colour scheme is in different shades of blue because of the 2 males piece of clothing and it also the grey makes the colours look warmer and not as bold.

Layout

There is an image on each of the pages and the text is also on the same side on each page, this makes it easier for the reader to read the double page spread.

Representation 

Both males are posing differently, the male on the left side has his right arm on his left forearm, this could mean that is is either uncomfortable or he is just simply posing to the camera  The male on the right looks relaxed and is smiling, he looks more comfortable than the 1st male. Both shot types are Medium long shots  because the main attention is towards the males and makes it easier for female readers to see their facial expressions.

Research and Planning - Contents Page Analysis

Genre

Genre for this magazine is Pop, to prove this there are images of 4 pop bands, One direction, JLS, The Wanted & The Saturdays (only 2 out of 4 on the page). There is also a picture of some characters from a TV show called Glee (an American musical comedy-drama television series).

Layout

The contents page has 2 columns, one from the editor explaining the audience what to expect and try to drag the audience into reading this issue, the second column is giving a little preview also of what's in this magazine. There are 3 colours used on this page (Blue, Yellow and White), these colours are quite bold and stand out to the audiences eye. The font is in the same colours as the background except black is used instead of white so the audience can see what the cover line says. 

Representation

The 5 males (One Direction) are posing while smiling, they look happy together and look like they're having fun. We can see them head to waist (Medium Long Shot) because the attention is focused on them. The Wanted's image pose and the look on their faces look serious as if the not happy about something, they've used a medium shot. The 2 images of Taylor Lautner and Marvin (from JLS) are both close ups so the audience can see their facial expressions.

Target Audience

This contents page looks like it is most likely targeted to the female audience, I think this because there are a lot images of boy bands and male actors. Girls will buy magazines with good looking, young male celebrities, inside the magazine because that is what females are interested in today.The image of the 2 girls from The Saturdays could also associate to males too.

I think the age limit for this magazine is between 14-17 because there are images of young celebrities on the contents page and that is what teenagers between these ages are interested in. Plus, there are posters in the magazine (as seen in the bottom of the page) of a lot of young celebrities and teenagers will want to put up posters of their celebrities crushes on to their walls.

Research and Planning - Target Audience

Target Audience on Prezi

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Target Audience on Prezi

Research and Planning - My music magazine cover and contents page drafts

Research and Planning - Mastheads for my magazine

Here are some mastheads I have designed for when I create my music magazine in the future.