Pictures I am thinking of using for my magazine.

This is the picture that I am going to use for my front cover. I have had to sharpen it up as my picture was out of focus but I like how it shows my group to be a bit cheeky and it shows them having fun putting decorations on the Christmas tree. I have also had to crop this picture as it had some things on that I didn't need.

This is one of the pictures that are on my contents page. I have use one of my photo's as the background and lightened that so the pictures of my group will stand out. I have cropped this picture and sharpened it to make it even more sharper but more professional.

This is the other picture that will be on my contents page, this has also been cropped and sharpened to look more professional. I think by putting these pictures on randomly adds to my magazine and makes it fun to look at.

This is a picture of my cat that belongs to my girl group and took part in the photo shoot. This picture will also be on the contents page and he is talked about in my interview with my girl band. This picture hasn't been cropped or sharpened and it looks very professional.

This is the picture I am going to use as the main picture for my feature article, my pictures are going to sell a story and this is before the presents have been opened. I have also sharpened this picture as it was also out of focus and for all my pictures I have cropped them.

This is the next picture in my feature article as my pictures are going to tell the story of my girl group opening presents. This has also been cropped and sharpened. This picture shows my group have picked up presents which are for them and they are going to open them.

This is the third picture that will be in my feature article, I haven't had to crop this but I have had to sharpen it. With all my pictures, I am not quite happy with them but I think they work really well with the theme of my magazine and appeal to my target audience.

This is the last picture of my feature article, this picture again has had to be cropped and sharpened. I was out of focus for most of my pictures but even with that I am happy with them. The colours connect with my magazine as they are oranges, yellow, red and pink and I think they blend together.

Draft of feature article

Earlier on this week, I handed in my draft of my feature article to be marked by my teacher. As I am doing a interview, I had to get my aritsts personalities across. Once speaking to my teacher, she has told me that I have done but the answers are not long enough and are more toward the gossip side then the music side. As I have been given feedback, I am know going to write my article again and hand it back in to my teacher. I am happy with my article but want it to be right so the next few days - 9th, 10th and 11th of December, I am going to spend re-drafting my article.
This is the first draft of my article which has been marked and handed back to me, I have been told that my article is good and I am useing a good range of different languages but my article is leaning more towards an article for a gossip magazine not a music magazine. I was also told that I didn't include the name of my groups new album and single which I know I have to include.I have also been told that I have got across the groups personalitys very well in my interview as I know that is very hard to do. Overall, my teacher is happy with my article but it just needs some changing which I am going to do and hand in again for another check. I am going to change some of my spellings and make my answeres longer, which I have been suggested to do so. Also, I will change around some of my answers and make some of my questions more professional.

Font ideas

I went on dafont.com and found these fonts that appeal for me to use in my magazine. The fonts I have been looking at are mainly going to be used for my heading of my magazine. Each one of these fonts are different and I have chose them as I think they will give different meaning to my magazine. The fonts I prefer are the NEW FACEBOOK, HAETTENSCHWEILER and MANUAL COOKIE BUCKET. I prefer these 3 as I think they suite the style of my magazine and my target audience. I think I will use NEW FACEBOOK as my font for my headings as I think it is the best font for my magazine and age range my magazine is aimed at. The style of this font is young but also will appeal to my older audience as it is a font that can be used where ever.

I also like HAETTENSCHWEILER and MANUAL COOKIE BUCKET as they are fonts that will also appeal to my whole target audience and will stand out on my magazines front page.

The other fonts, MAKEMEALPHA, GREEN PILLOW and DIRTY HEADLINE are good heading ideas but I don't think they are right for my magazine. GREEN PILLOW is to childish and the other fonts are two old for my younger audience. If I get my fonts wrong then they will not appeal to my target audience the way I wont them to.

Mock up of my feature article

This is a mock up of my feature article, the image in the corner is going to be my main image and the other images will be smaller around it. I have decided to do one large image and little small images to break up my interview so it is easier for my audience to read. The text will be black but will be large enough for my audience to read and my interview will have many different questions so my audience doesn't get bored with my article. The heading of my magazine will be on the top of the page in its colour to keep the house style going throughout my magazine. My feature article will have many different pictures to keep the audience entertained rather then just writing and one picture which will make my audience skip past my article as it will not entertain them. My pictures are still going to be from the christmas photo shoot as I changed my mind before I made my mock up of my feature article so it was easy for me to design.

Mock up of my contents page

My contents page has been split into sections so it is easier for my audience to choose what they would prefer to read. By adding sections also doesn't over power my audience with too much information and makes the page seem friendly. There will be a main picture on my content page of my artist to entice the audience to read the article on the girl group. The heading of my magazine will also be there in the same colour as my front cover to keep the house style the same throughout my magazine. The magazines website address will also be at the top of the page, i will keep it at the top of the page as it creates more audiences for my magazine and its website. The colours for my contents page again will be red, pink, purple, yellow and orange. The colours are also quite christmassy so it will appeal to my audience. I have added sections to my contents as my audience likes familiarity and by spliting my page into sections, such as: Stories of the week, Celeb world and reviews. I have added Celeb world as my magazine is a hybrid magazine and gossip is my hybrid.

Mock up of my front page - new idea

I have changed the idea of my whole magazine by making it a christmas magazine. My new front cover has a christmas tree in the background and my group will be dressed in party clothes around the christmas tree. My heading will be the full name of my magazine as I prefer it to just PG. I have also added more information on my front cover to entice my audience even more by adding what is in the interviews and the other pages. My front cover will have the website for my magazine as well as the information for what number issue it is and when it is being sold. My magazine also has the price of it with the barcode of £2.30, I have chosen this price as it is not to expensive and I will make a profit from it, also, my questionnaire results showed me that my audience is welling to pay between £2 and £3 for a good music magazine.

My colours will be the same as before but my font is going to be different. My colour of my heading will be red or pink. The other headings will be many different colours but will go with my colour scheme of red, pink, yellow, purple and orange.

Mock up of my front page

This is the mock up of my front page, this was my idea before I changed my mind to do a christmas themed photo shoot. The colours of my magazine will be red, purple, pink, yellow and orange, all the colours that stand out. My title will be bold and each different text will be different fonts and sizes. I have added well known artists to my front cover so my audience will read my whole magazine as the artists appeal to my audience. My title will be dark pink but will stand out and the font will be really big and bold in order for it to stand out on the shelfs in shops. Each of my different sub-headings will be linked in the colours and each font will be different. I will add pictures of the other artists but as im not allowed to take pictures off the internet, I will take extra pictures of different people in order to make my front cover suitable for my target audience.

Feedback - 6/12/09

Excellent progress Romany - well done! Some interesting research and planning on here.

Planning:

- It might be nice to outline your artist and their image - and why they are good to be the featured artists in your magazine

- Now that you have written your feature article - put it onto your blog also.

- once done - put your drawn mock -ups of your pages on here

- you could also go online to dafont.com and look and analyse the connotations of fonts - that you might use for your header (name of magazine) and throughout your magazine.

- see your 'before you blog sheet' for the other planning you can do!

Miss McNulty

Timeline for shooting

In order to have enough time to create my music magazine I have planned out the rest of my planning and have created enough time to take photos and create my music magazine.

The week beginning the 7Th of December 2009 is going to be my last week of planning and designing how my magazines front cover, contents page and feature article is going to look. It will also be the week that I finish my feature article as I am doing the first draft at this moment in time.

During the week beginning the 7Th of December I have decided to take out the still cameras and so my photo shoot on Thursday the 10th of December. My photo shoot will be a christmas shoot at my house.

Once Christmas is over, the week beginning the 4Th of January 2010 is the final two weeks I have to create my magazines front cover, contents page and feature article.

My girl Band

These are the people that are going to be my new girl band. There names are Louise Yates and Sarah Belshaw. I have chosen these as my girl band as they are willing to be in the photo shoots and don't mind me taking pictures of them.

They will both be the singers and will have a band behind them but Sarah Yates and Sarah Belshaw will be the protagonists of my new band.

I have decided to use my two friends as my new girl group as they have the right personality and looks. They are into fashion and gossip which will appeal to my audience. There age will also appeal to the older audience as my older audience will feel like they know them and want my audience will want to read about them.

Planning - Costume and Props list

As my magazine is a pop music magazine, my bands image is going to be inspired by the genre of music. My inspiration for my bands image is the likes of Cheryl Cole, The Saturdays and celebrities such as Coleen Rooney.

I like this picture of Cheryl Cole because she is giving me ideas of the costumes for my band. I like the skinny jeans look with high hills and I am thinking that this is going to be the image of my band.

I have chosen this image as another inspiration for my photo shoot as I like the wet leggings look and I think that the colours work well together and they also connect with the colours of my magazine. Cheryl Cole is a role model to young girls and what she wears gives young girls ideas. I am including Cheryl Cole in my magazine as it will attract customers and sell magazines.

As The Saturdays are the newest girl group, young girls like their fashion and again The Saturdays are role models to young girls. I have added this picture as it has given me another idea for my photo shoot. I think what they are wearing gives inspiration to young and older girls. The Saturdays are also going to be included in my magazine as they will attract young girls as well as Cheryl Cole.

Coleen Rooney is a style icon to teenage girls. I like her dress as it is very bright and it gives me another idea for my photo shoots. Also, I think as we are in the winter, a bright coloured dress will stand out on the front page of my magazine and will attract the audiences eyes.

Props on a photo shoot are very important. They can make the people who they are or bring inspiration to the audience. For my photo shoot, I am using two decorated christmas trees. There will be wrapped up presents and lots of christmas decorations.

Research - Circulation figures of music magazines

As part of my research, I have researched the circulation figures of music and celebrity magazines. The figures I have found are not from the official ABC website, so some of the figures may be incorrect.

Through my research, I found out that the two biggest music magazines, NME and Kerrang! are losing profit as people are not buying their magazine and I found out that Closer and Heat are the best celebrity magazines at the moment as their profits have risen eventhough heatworld.com has lots of readers of heat magazine going on their website rather than buying their magazine. I think it's strange that the most famous music magazines are falling in profit. For example, Kerrang! magazine went from 76,937 readers to 60, 294.

Research - Ideology

My text will push the messages and values of my artists and the messages and values of how other people life and that many people have different styles which will push my audience to understand that you don't need to follow the crowd, you can be different. My text will also push the messages and values of youth, to show that many people life differently and it doesn't matter what gender you are, everyone is equal. My text will follow dominant ideologies as my magazine will be sold all over the country so my audience nows that there are many different ideas and beliefs and my magazine will help my audiences understand that as there will be many sections to my magazine.

In my magazine, I don't think they will follow the alternative ideologies as I have already decided that my magazine will follow the dominant ideologies. I have decided not to use alternative ideologies because they will challenge my dominant ideologies and I do not want to confuse my audiences.

Questionnaire results

These are two questions that were on my questionnaire that I have analysed and put them into two graphs.

The first question that I put into a graph was 'What music magazines do you buy?' I decide to use this as it gives a clear outline to what music magazine is the most popular. Although I only gave out 15 questionnaires, my first graphs has 17 answers as two of my questionnaires came back with more than one answer for this question. My results showed me that Top of the Pops is the most popular magazines amongst my whole target audience but most of the answers for top of the pops came back from my younger audience. Closely followed was other magazines that were not on my list but were very popular. There were magazines such as Rolling Stones. I also gave out questionnaires to my secondary audience and they gave back answers such as Nuts and FHM.

NME magazine was the magazine that my older audiences seem to like best and Kerrang! was also another magazine that my older teenagers seemed to like more than other magazines.

My second graph is from the question 'How old are you?' I did this to outline who my questionnaire has been handed out to and how old each of them are. I noticed that the most popular ages were 13-14 and 15-16. These ages were mostly who I gave my questionnaire out to as they are the ages that my magazine will mostly been around. The red and blue sections are the same size as they have 6 questionnaire answers in each, the yellow is the ages 17-18 as only 3 of my questionnaires came back with the age range and non of my questionnaires came back with ages 19+ which is why the colour, which is green is not showing on my graph.

Planning Mood Boards

I have created a mood board to show my ideas for clothes and types of fonts for my magazines. I have added pictures of eye make-up as I like the bold bright colours as it makes eyes stand out, that has also given me inspiration for my photo shot because I could bring out the eyes of my girl group. I have many different fonts on my mood board as I think the style of fonts in your magazine helps if the readers read it or not as boring fonts will not draw the readers eyes. I also have pictures of fashion that can relate to my genre as they are the latest fashion and many teenage girls would look at my magazine for what my artist and other celebrities are wearing.

I have added pictures of Lady Gaga and Cheryl Cole as they will be in my magazine and their fashion inspires audiences.

Pop Videos

This video by The Saturdays has given me ideas for my photoshot. I like the way they are standing by the cars and what they are wearing. Also, many of my audiences like the saturdays and will read my magazine if they are featured in it.