My Magazine

Plan

The audience this magazine is for students attending college of both gender
The picture I am going to use is 3 people standing in a library with one person at the front of the aisle smiling at the camera whilst reading a book, over his or her shoulder there will be 2 people also in the aisle browsing through book shelves.
I will ensure that the people (models) are wearing suitable clothing without noticeable branding or patterns affecting the shot

The equipment I will use:-

Pen, Paper, Camera, People, Books, Props,

Printer, Library,
Computer

Dates
Where- College Library
When- January 15th
Time- 11:15 am

Evaluation

When I started planning the production of my front cover I had a few problems and difficulties.

The main problem was being aware of the back round and surroundings in the picture. When I started taking my first set of pictures I realised that I needed a suitable back round which suited the audience that I was specifically aiming at. Also I had to find a location which didn't have any lighting in the way of anything in my picture.

Another problem I had during this process was that the models that I had used were wearing clothes that had confusing patterns or noticeable branding on them, which meant that I was unable to use those pictures because this was not aloud on my front cover because everything had to be original. When I went out for the second shoot I had to think about all the problems that I had the first shoot and make sure I didn't have them again.

When I was planning I had a few ideas but stuck with one that I thought was suitable for my audience and when taking the shots I chose a few Angles and decided to use the best one for my front cover.

I decided to use 'Word Art' for my headings as it made my heading stand out which was a formal but bold font which I thought was appealing to the audience. I used a bright red colour for the heading and for the logo and underneath I used white text and this made the text stand out from the back round and pull in the reader.

I used 'Microsoft Publisher' to create my front cover. This program enabled me to make the cover to the picture and add headings and other features. In the bottom right hand corner I added an issue date to make it look more official to the reader.

Overall, this picture is suitable to its audience and purpose. The way I have set out the picture has helped me to put the headings and the text in the right place suitable for a magazine. If I was to do this again I would improve my planning by putting more thought into the text, the picture and the heading. I would make sure that I was more organised before I went out and took my first shoot. I'd also put more thought when I was picking my models to show what I was trying to achieve when making my front cover of a a college magazine.

I have decided to focus on more of a Indie back round for my magazine.

I have been doing research into other Indie magazine such as NME and I have found out these types of magazines are aimed at an age of 12-28.