Armani+Lelitte

Preliminary Task
Magazine Analysis



Magazine Cover
 * The image is at front of the masthead which makes him stand out and shows that it is the main thing attracting people to buy the masthead.
 * Image of Iron Man which is a well know comic book superheroe will attract consumers.
 * The masthead is big and bold which lets consumer know what magazine it is from a glimpse.
 * Price is placed just above masthead, not hidden in the corner like many magazines which makes the price of the magazine immediate to consumers.
 * Mention of other films which get the attention of people interested in them.
 * Blue and white colour scheme which is visually attractive.

Initial Plan

Who is the target audience? The target audience for my magazine is sixth form students from London between the ages of 16 -19 of no particular gender.

What is the name of your magazine? The name of magazine is making the grade. I chose this name as I believe that it highlights the idea of students having to achieve high grades and that this magazine will help them achieve that.

What will your masthead look like? My masthead will be in a large font and placed at the top of my magazine front cover so as not to block anything else on the page. I will make the font a different colour to my magazine

background so that it stands out against the background. What will your sell line and slogan be? How to get the grades you want to achieve in life will be my slogan as it encompasses what my magazine is about. Another idea i had for my slogan was The A Grade - Tips on how to get As. My sell lines will be
 * 1) Latest school news
 * 2) Revision tips
 * 3) Sports
 * 4) Real life student storys

What will your front cover image be? My front cover image will be of sixth form students socialising together which will take up the whole page. I will have the models looking at each other and not at the camera so as to go against the convention of models looking directly at the camera.

What are your font ideas? For my font I have decided to use a basic colour scheme of blue & white as this will stand out best against the background image on my front cover and my contents page. I will stick to using a basic font so i will be easy to be read by others. My main story title will be in a slightly smaller font that my masthead.

What will your contents page look like? My contents page will be an image of a school highlighting the idea of school life to my readers and will have the text over that image.

Other things my magazine will include. Price Tag.

Issue Date. Subheading of other artices in magazine.

__Mise-en-scene for front cover__

Location - In School Clothing - School Uniform Lighting - Natural Light

Practice Magazine Cover And Contents Page
practice magazine first draft practice magazine and contents final drafts





Main Task - Magazine Cover
Magazine front cover analysis



Magazine Double Page Spread Analysis





Initial Plan For Main Task

What genre of music will your magazine cover? My magazine will cover rap and hip-hop music. I chose this as enjoy listening to rap and hip-hop music and believe that I will be able to write the best about this type of music. I have also read a lot of rap and hip-hop music magazines and believe I would be able to design a high quality hip-hop and rap magazine through experience of reading many others.

Who is your target audience? My magazine will be aimed at people aged between 15-30 who listen to hip-hop and rap music. The reason I chose this age is that my magazine will focus on new hip-hop and rap music and older audiences may not find this type of music likeable but it is open to people of other ages as I believe rap and hip-hop music can be enjoyed by people of any age.

What is the name of your magazine? The name of my magazine will be the proclaimer. I chose this name as to proclaim means to announce officially and publicly declare and in my magazine I will be announcing and publicly declaring all the new news on hip-hop and rap music and want to make that clear to my audience through the masthead and slogan.

What will your masthead look like? My masthead will be placed at the top my magazine front cover and will be a very comic book like font. The reason chose this is font is because thought that it stands out on the page and would be easily recognisable by consumers. The font called Damn Noise Kids. Below is an image of my masthead in the font.



What will be the main image for your front cover? The main image for my front cover will be a mid - long shot of my model sitting down with his body facing away from the camera but with his face looking at it.

What will be the main image for your front cover? The main image for my front cover will be a shot of my model Montana who will be the feature artist.

What photography will be required? I will use mid shots or longs shots at a shoulder height in an area which is brightly lit.

What mise-en-scene will be need? I will need a background will match the urban rap and R&B music of my magazine so i have decided to take the picture outside in an urban area. I will also have my model dressed as a stereotypical rapper wearing a hat and multiple chains.

What will your sell lines be? My main sell will be in the mind of raps self proclaimed superhero Montana .My other sell lines will be
 * Competition - win a chance to see jay-z live
 * Review Of Take Care
 * Lesson 101 This weeks artist is Mobb Deep
 * This weeks hottest songs
 * A sit down with mac miller

What is the focus of your double page spread? The focus of my double page spread is an interview with the cover model Montana. This double page spread will conform to the 50/50 split rule.

What feature articles are you including on your contents page? On my contents page i will be including information of articles on other pages such as a review of drakes Take Care and other sections such as Swag (a fashion section), Lesson 101 which is about 90s music and my main article which is an interview with Montana. I will also have images of my model on this page as well as other images to go with articles included in my magazine such as a image of Drakes album and of Mac Miller.

Audience Research
I asked multiple question for my audience research but here are the results f the ones which I deemed the most important,

The first question was what is your favourite genre of magazine. From this i found that rap and r&b were very popular which confirm what i already knew and affected my choice in magazine genre.

The second question was how much would you pay for a magazine. From this i found out how much people would be willing to spend on a magazine and that that amount was £2-3 but I decided to go against this price and go for a higher price for my magazine based on the price of other magazines of the same type (rap and R&B) such as XXL an VIbe.

My final question was where do you usually buy magazine from?. This helped me to decided where i would place my magazine when it is on sale. From this i found that most people buy magazine from local store but I decided that if I were to sale my magazine i would go for supermarkets first. As large amount of people go to supermarkets regular basis at this is where I would get the most amount of customers.



Photo's
Below are photos which I took as possible ones to be included in my main task.





Magazine Front cover. Contents Page and DPS first draft.

DPS practice draft 2



Magazine Front cover and contents page 2nd draft and DPS 3rd draft



The Different Stages Of Development Of My Front Cover, Contents Page and DPS
At this stage I had edited my picture of a fence using a water paint effect and added a red rectangle. I then added my mastheading, slogan and main sell line along with my barcode. Then added the date and issue along with more text to my magazine. I then got the image that i wanted to use for my front cover and cut it out of the background. After this i then added it to my front cover and then moved my masthead slogan and red rectangle slightly higher up.

For my contents page I started with a blank page and then made it grey. I then added the name of my magazine and the page number. I then added the title contents and added a red rectangle around the number 2 I then added all of my text and then added my images. I then added the numbers onto my images. For my dps i started with a blank page and the made it grey. I then added my image to one side of the page. I then added my main title page number along with the magazine name and date. I then added my interview article and added a red rectangle around the feature artists name so it could stand out.

Evaluation


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