Photography Planning

I have produced a grid to guide me in my photography when taking photos of my mode. I may not stick exactly to this grid, but the ideas will be similar hopefully.

Main image research

• The shot type of the main images are mainly medium long shots as they show the celebrities facial expression clearly, but also include some of their costumes which allows the audience to see what type of article is going to be wrote about that celebrity, e.g. Olly Murs' Christmas jumper suggests it's going to be a Christmas related interview.
• The angles of the images are all eye level, this could suggest that the celebrities have the same authority as the audience.
• The type of lighting used within all of these images is high key lighting, this is because as they are pop magazines and aimed at teenagers and children, they need to appeal to them and if they are dull, boring colours then they wont be attracted to the magazines.
•  Throughout all of the pop magazines I have seen, not just the examples above, I have noticed that all of the images have direct mode of address to make the audience feel involved and welcome into reading the magazine.
• Each of the celebrities on the magazine have different poses which represent them individually but are still appropriate for the target audience. It's usually a pose which makes them look attractive, but also look fun too.
• The same applies to the costumes they are wearing, they either reflect their personality or reflect the theme of the interview/time of year e.g. Easter, Christmas... As the target audience for the magazines above are quite young, hardly any of the costumes are  revealing and they are appropriate.
• The representation that is given off from each of these celebrities are that they are fun people and are very attractive. None of them have tattoos or are portrayed to be a bad influence either.
• Having a band or an artist as your main image depends on who the is going to have the most impact on the content of the magazine. So you could have either of them.

Treatment of music magazine

In this document, I have explained about the contents of my magazine and what will be inside of it. It is a summary of the magazine I will be producing.

Front cover&Contents page drafts

Here, I have designed 2 front covers and 2 contents pages which these designs have been adapted from the feedback from the peers who filled in my questionnaire. This feedback has helped me a lot because I knew what colours to include on these pages and how to lay out the pages whilst keeping them neat and not too busy, however still having all information on them.

Music Magazine Double Page Layouts

These are the 3 layouts for my double page spread for my music magazine. I have followed the conventions of a music magazine from 'We Love Pop' in layout 1, however I have designed my own layout for design 2 and 3 because I thought these were very unique ideas and would catch the readers eye straight away.

Music Magazine Contents Page Layouts

I have designed 3 different contents page layouts that I will chose 1 for my final production of my music magazine. Each layout is following the conventions from the magazine 'We Love Pop' which I analysed earlier on in my work. I have included the same conventions throughout all 3 layouts because these follow the conventions of a music magazine therefore I am not challenging any of these conventions.

Music Magazine front cover layout

 

 
I have designed 3 layouts for the front cover for my music magazine I am going to produce. The way I designed these layouts are by looking through different music magazines and following the conventions of the magazine 'We Love Pop'. The masthead for each layout is at the top, which is essential for me because then it will stand out to the audience and they will know straight away that it is my magazine. Not only that but the anchorage text is always covering the main image even if its slightly because this also follows conventions and it links it directly to the main image. Each cover line and thumbnail image that is linked to it is important to the front cover because it shows what is inside of this particular issue and includes images of celebrities which draws the audience in if they notice that their favorite celebrity is on it, or someone that they have an interest in.

Survey results

 
 
I created a survey outside of school to gather results and answers about the front cover of my magazine and how I can make it appeal to a wide variety of people for my audience of teenage girls. The age of the people who filled in this survey were teenage girls, so this is helpful as it gives me the opinion of people from the ideal audience.

Masthead Survey

Click here to take survey

Above is the link to my survey I have made to get feedback about the front cover of the magazine I will be producing. It would be really helpful if you could click onto the link above and complete this survey, it wont take long! 

These images of different masthead styles will help you to answer question number 4 as you will need to see the masthead styles to be able to complete the question.