Google mock up ideas

Using existing images from the internet, use Photoshop to create 1x mock up of a front cover, 1x contents page

1x double page spread

Double page spread house styles

Contents page house styles

Colour scheme ideas, Name ideas and feature story ideas

Logo Design Branding

Style/ iconography of my product

Mise-en-scene location and prop ideas

Costume designs

Social class & demographic of my product

My magazine will be aimed at teenage girls. I will adhere to their needs by making my magazine easy to read and with bright colours. I will use an informal font. The price of my magazine will be £1.99. This is suitable because they won’t have a lot of their own money so it needs to be fairly cheap to get more people to buy it. The parents or carers will most likely be the person that will actually pay for the magazine for them so it will sell more if it is cheap. I think a good free gift for my magazine would be stickers or a lip gloss. These things would be suitable for my audience but also wouldn’t be too expensive to make which I need because the magazine doesn’t cost much. The social class table will help me with my feature stories and target audience because it will help me know their interests so my magazine sells more.

Reader profile research

A reader profile is something that tells magazines who their audience is. This is useful because it will help them know what to include so it is appropriate for their audience. It also helps sales because they will be able to give their audience what they want to see. It helps them know what content to include because they know who will read.

For Billboard, 77% of their audience are males so the content of the magazine should be based on things that they want to see. The average age that reads the magazine is 47 so it wouldn’t be good to fill it with things that teenagers are interested in because then the majority of their audience wouldn’t buy it.

The content makes people want to read it because they have researched what people want to see and they know who they are trying to attract.

Also, almost 70% of their readers have graduated college. This is good for them because it means they will most likely be earning a lot of money in the future so they have money to buy the magazine regularly. Almost 50% of their readers are managers in business. This is also good because they have a high position in society and money to buy the magazine. 

My reader profile

Genre Research Prezis

Genre research

A genre is a kind or type of something. Some examples of music genres are:

·         Pop

·         Rock

·         EDM

·         R&B

·         Blues

·         Jazz

·         Punk

·         Anime

·         Classical

·         Country

·         Latin

·         Opera

·         Hip Hop

·         Rap

·         Reggae

·         Dance

·         Comedy

·         House

·         Disney

·         Swing

·         Fitness/Workout

·         Christmas

Conventions analysis double page spread

Conventions analysis contents page

Conventions analysis front cover

Main Brief

To design a front cover, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, a minimum of four images must be used.