Test Shots

These are my test shot for my front cover. I use various poses to see what I think goes well with my magazine. I like the one with  her hand near her face I think it makes her look soft, innocent, angelic and I think it will suit the magazine front cover. I've chosen to use a mid shop as my front cover so the viewer can see some of the mise-en-scene to show her style of what kind of artist she is. I was thinking of having her wearing a crop top and maybe a kimono to make her look cute and playful. These pictures are similar to what i want my model to wear. I'm planning to keep the clothes colours light to keep keep the innocent look and to suit my genre of Pop.

Making My Masthead

This was the making of my mast head. I then edited it slightly on Photoshop by making my name look like its being shouted. I think it gives it a good effect. I've made my masthead pink because its the typical girly colour and it stand out. My font is bold and easy to read i also believe its easy to remember. I've put hearts in the lettering because i think it adds to the Pop genre also it makes it portrays the fun bubbly girly look.

Shot List Feedback

Shot Plan

This are the shots i am planning to do for my magazine. As my magazine genre is Pop i expect my model to look friendly bubbly, youthful and not to have too much make up. As it's appealing to teenagers. I am planning to have my model in colourful clothes to match the playful genre. For the font cover I want my model to wear a flowly dress a pink or blue specifically however I am thinking of maybe having a pattern dress so she can stand out from the background as I'm thinking of having my background white. I also want to make the masthead with my model through her nails or possibly her clothes if possible.  

Masthead Brain Storm

Visual Moodboard

This is a visual moodboard. It all the contents of my magazine and what its made of. All the words I have written on the post it notes relate to my Pop genre and what is in my music magazine. 

Artist Profile

Planning My Flat Plan

This are the similarities what i got from the magazines. I've used these key features because I think it works well together and its effective. I like the layout of both magazines which is why I took certain elements from each magazine for my front cover.

I wanted my content page to be easy to read and will structured.However as a pop magazine its usually bright and cluttered which is what I wanted to avoid so I took these key features from both magazine to create a clear content page but still keeping the conventions of a pop magazine.

Flat Plan Feedback

From my feedback I get the impression that my front cover might be too cluttered. Although that is one of the convention of a pop magazine, I may have cluttered it too much because of this I will take some parts away to look less cluttered and more readable for my audience. My content page seem to have the most positive feedback. They found it easy to read and they like the structure of the page. My double spread sheet page feels like two separate which isn't I want. Although I used the lines to try connect them. To make it look like its together i will make the line more bold. I also agree that my model could be bigger which is why I think I should have a mid-shot. I'm also thinking about changing the props to relates it more e.g having a YouTube pillow  

Flat Plan

I used my focus group to help me to design my front cover. I used 'Billboard' positioning because I felt that it was effective and I used some of 'We Heart Pop' main features to make it look like a conventional pop magazine. The colours I'm thinking of using is a Tiffany blue colour and white. I might also use pink to link to my pop theme. For my masthead I was thinking of having a graphic to make it stand out, also to relate to my target audience. I was thinking my pull quote could be "I didn't think I'd get so many hits."

My contents page was influenced by Q magazine mainly as my focus group liked the layout and it was easy to read. I took features from both Q magazine and "We Heart Pop" I also have a design behind the lettering and pictures to fill in the blank space more as pop magazines usually fill most empty spaces. I've added some titles that I may have. I'm thinking of having 'This weeks hottest" in bright pink to stand out. 

My double spread page has be influenced by "We Heart Pop" I've also continued the pattern from the content page to the double spread page to link all my pages. My model will be posing with a piece of paper. Later I will edit it in photo shop of her YouTube channel to link with the head line. Some questions I was thinking of was. Did you think YouTube channel would get so many views?

How has this effected you in the way you produce music now? Will you still post videos of you singing on your youtube account or would you use it to interact with you fan base? These are just a few questions I may change them in time and thin of more to add.

Focus Group Feedback

The purpose of having my focus group was to find out what my target audience expect in a Pop magazine. This is useful as it means I can meeting my target audience. It also helps me design my magazine as they tell what they like and dislike and what they would want to see in a magazine.

Audience Research

I sent a text message to people of my phone by adding the link in the text message. therefore I know their ages are from 14-17. This is how i got my feedback. I feel this was the best way to attract people of my age and an easy way to get peoples responses. This was successful as 13 people responded. Its also useful as anyone from my contacts can go on it when ever they like people the survey will always be there.

my first question was to see what genre was the most popular to see if pop was the right decision to make which I believe it was as it came to be on top. It also shows me that people like this genre and therefore people around this age will want to buy/rad this magazine.

My second question was to see how man people bought magazines. As I'm creating a magazine is this information I need because it shows me how often people buy magazines.

My third question is important because i need to know what my target audience find interesting and what attracts them to a magazine.this will help me be able to stand out amongst other magazines. It also helps as it means i need to focus on the aspect that they are most drawn to which is the artist and colours.

My last question was to show me what magazines people like because then i can look at these magazines in to detail. For an example i can look at the colours they use and how they use them, what graphics they use and how is their magazine layout structured. This help me as it means i can conduct a magazine what is easy for my target audience to red and designed in the way they like.

Reader Profile

Hi my name is Kylie.

I'm 17 and I currently live in Croydon with my family. I go to a lot of festival because I enjoy listening to latest music live. I've been to wireless Glastonbury and some others. I'm quite into pop music because you can dance to it and I like to sing along but I also like other genres. I go to college and I study Art, Music, business studies and history. I like knowing statistic and history of most things. 

I'm a sociable person and I like going out with my friends usually shopping with the girls. I like keeping up with fashion especially music artist because they’re so unique and I love the colours on them because it’s so bold and catchy. I like how Ariana Grande dresses because she can be colourful as well as bland. I also like Beyonce dresses because their sparkly and gold. She almost looks like a queen.

 Although my favourite colour is red/pink generally like neutral colours with a pop of colour. I also like to go  and try new things and go exploring. I want to go to America to try get signed to a major music label also to look at the landscapes and visit museums. It helps inspires me to create my own music.  I'm interested I'm becoming a singer myself but for now I'm working on school. 

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