Photo shoot planning

Photo planning for front cover

My Magazine Ideas

After Looking at two different magazines with the same target audience. I have found that the house style for "we love pop" the colours are bright and bold, and follow the same layout throughout the different magazines. I can also see that the front cover is busy and has lots of information produced even though there is a clear layout which would appeal to a teenager.

Where as the second magazine image is more plan and to the point so the masthead is more visible. The house style is a lot more professional and you can clearly see what is written. After looking at the two magazines i think that for my magazine the second one would give me more inspiration. I think this would would be better because teenagers want to be taken seriously and i feel that this magazine can help achieve that

                                

photo planning sheet...

Bar Charts for the questionaire

Brand identity and brand values for two magazines

Layout plans for my magazine

Questionaire

Masthead

After speaking to my target audience i found that they prefer the "maybe" masthead the most. This is because it is short and catchy. They also like the bright colours because it is eye catching. So this is the masthead idea i am going to use 

Masthead ideas for my magazine

i have created ideas for my masthead idea for my magazine. My magazine audience is young teenage girls this is why i have kept the colours mostly pink and purple. My favorite masthead idea is the purple sound. This is because the sound look like the speakers are making its hack 

Kerrang brand values

I looked at the magazine kerrang. kerrang consists if many rock bands and heavy metal artists which may not appeal to everyone giving it a niche audience. Kerrang uses capital letters to it's advantage to emphasise the loud music it expresses. The house colours used are usually, if not always red black and grey. Red has connotations of blood, passion and death. Black and grey have connotations of death, depression and darkness; all these link to the music featured in it's magazine in which the house colours are consistent. All the main images in used in kerrang are direct in address and are often taken at a low angle shot, so you feel slightly threatened as the band/artist is looking down on you  which contributes to the anger given off by their music, but the judgements the public make of this cause moral panic among older people because of the threatening image.

Effective Masthead

• Bright Slogan
• Colour
• Relates to genre of content
• Simple designs 
• Stands out
• Unique
• Recogniseable 
• Should capture its audience attention 
• Catchy
• Clear front
• Capital Letter
• Good contrast with background 

Contents of the magazine

• Exam information 
• PB radio information
• Previous ofsted reports
• Statistics 
• News about any upcoming clubs
• Calender of important dates
• Charity events
• Pictures
• Information on teachers leaving
• Logo

Audience

The audience for my magazine is really anyone who is in school and interested in what the upcoming events there are. Therefore it is mainly targeted at students aged between 12- 18, teachers within the school are also the audience but it is also parents and people who live within the Sutton Coldfield area. Because of this wide age range between teenagers and people who have children and grandchildren who go to the school. I need to take into consideration how I present and layout my magazine. 

Pictures from the photo shoot

Front Cover

Contents page

Layout ideas for the contents page

Conventions of a contents page

Pictures- pictures are used to grab the readers attention and make the magazine more entertaining and exciting Columns- columns are to show an ordered layout Headlines- are used so that the audience no what the contents page is about Banners- they are designed to get the attention of the reader by creating a contrast between the title/ headline and text Page Numbers- are designed to inform the reader in an organised way about the layout of the rest of the magazine e.g where to find a page Pull quotes- are used to lure the reader by getting quotes from inside the magazine Title- are used to firstly catch the readers attention by introducing what is in the magazine Structured Layout- the way in which a magazine is ordered Caption- is a small paragraph of text to tell the reader about an image Imformation(blurb)- is advertising a small piece of information inside the magazine to lure the reader House Style- is the way in which the colour scheme and layout is set out throughout the magazine Colour Scheme- colour scheme is the range of colours set throughout the magazine Visual Syntax- the way in which people read the conventions of a page Text- is there to inform the reader of information to do with the magazine Categories(sections)- sections are designed to show to show an organised magazine to get across a formal approach.

The cover of the magazine (without a picture)

Detailed magazine cover

Ideas for masthead

I have created these masthead ideas for my magazine. I really like the first one in the top left as i think it keeps the house style colours of the school and also makes it clear that the magazine is from plants brook school. I also think the font i used works really well as it shows that this is a professional magazine mostly aimed at students and teachers.

Ideas for picture's

Planning a photo shoot

• Teachers- I will have teachers working at a desk  in a mid- close up 
• Library- I will have a picture of the library with students working at the desks to show that there is something big that is going to happen in there. 
• Computer room- I will take pictures of a student in a sixth form working on a computer to show that we are getting new computers which can help our education.  
• Reception- I will take a picture outside of reception to show the school name to use as a background on the front cover 
• Results day- I could take a picture of others opening there results and holding their results in their hand 
• Clubs- i could take a picture of some of the lunchtime clubs at school and put them on the contents page to get my people to join
• Events- I could put a calender in my magazine display all the events that are taking place in that month
• Awards- I could take pictures of awards that people have won of clubs and school competitions.