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Friday, 9 October 2015
Planning my Photo Shoot - Preliminary task
For my preliminary task I need to design a school magazine. My magazines issue will be focusing on year 7 stress and how to overcome it. It is a good time for this article as new students to secondary schools have now been in school for five weeks and would now be facing problems from homework and intense lessons. My plan for the cover photo will feature a year 7 struggling with their homework at a desk. The student will be stressed and feel upset from the workload. I will use a mid shot from a side view.
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Heat Magazine
The Heat magazine uses conventions on their front covers to attract the target market audience so that they buy the Heat magazine over any other magazine. Heat is a weekly magazine about gossip amongst celebrities. It has a circulation of half a million and has weekly issues. The Heat magazine specialises in
maintaining the reputation in the public eye of celebrities who normally would
have ‘fallen by the wayside’ or been replaced by other celebrities.
The celebrities highlighted in gossip magazines are usually female. This is because they can be presented as the 'female victim'. In the Heat magazine woman are often sexualised so that a male audience is attracted. Woman celebrities are also often represented in a negative light by leaking there personal life so that the issue attracts the curious target audience.
The primary audience are white, urban and female working class people who tend to be main streamers and have interests in celebrity gossip. The primary audience are generally around 18-35 year olds and the secondary audience is 35-55.
The colours used on the Heat front cover are saturated primary colours and have high key lighting. This is so that the magazine codes and conventions are anchored and the target audience is highlighted. The front cover of the Heat magazine has a high ratio of photos to text. This is a key design for a gossip magazine so that the user can identify it.
The masthead on the Heat magazine is always to the left and keeps the same design. The masthead is a lower case, red, serif font which uses a bold format with a shadow to form brand identity. The style of the font would stereotypically appeal to a female target audience.
The celebrities highlighted in gossip magazines are usually female. This is because they can be presented as the 'female victim'. In the Heat magazine woman are often sexualised so that a male audience is attracted. Woman celebrities are also often represented in a negative light by leaking there personal life so that the issue attracts the curious target audience.
The primary audience are white, urban and female working class people who tend to be main streamers and have interests in celebrity gossip. The primary audience are generally around 18-35 year olds and the secondary audience is 35-55.
The colours used on the Heat front cover are saturated primary colours and have high key lighting. This is so that the magazine codes and conventions are anchored and the target audience is highlighted. The front cover of the Heat magazine has a high ratio of photos to text. This is a key design for a gossip magazine so that the user can identify it.
The masthead on the Heat magazine is always to the left and keeps the same design. The masthead is a lower case, red, serif font which uses a bold format with a shadow to form brand identity. The style of the font would stereotypically appeal to a female target audience.
On most issues of the Heat magazine, there is a sell line banner which advertises gossip articles inside the magazine. The sell line banner will use a photo and bold writing to attract the user to the article. In this example below you can see an article about the celebrity Katie Price. The mode of address is direct and upbeat as you can see from the font used and the exclamation mark. It seams like a boring article to the target audience but in brackets underneath it says “And
gets off with a man half way through!” This tells the user what the article is really about and will interest the audience because it is gossip.
Gossip magazine covers are generally cluttered with bold text, images and colours to keep the attention and interest of the reader. By making the stories and articles look exciting, the reader will think the gossip is important. This can make the reader feel like this is exclusive information and make them feel inclusive because they think know something not many others know about.
Thursday, 1 October 2015
Preliminary task: Practice Magazine
For my preliminary task we must produce our own school magazine front cover. As practice for this task I made a practice school magazine cover so I could learn how to use the software. I software we are using is Serif PagePlus X6. Pageplus is a program that allows you to create posters, leaflets and magazines using design software.
The magazine I designed as a test is called 'The Saint'. This is because it is a catholic school so the magazine relates to its audience. I did not use my own photos as it was only a practice - I got my photos from my schools website.
The magazine I designed as a test is called 'The Saint'. This is because it is a catholic school so the magazine relates to its audience. I did not use my own photos as it was only a practice - I got my photos from my schools website.
Tuesday, 22 September 2015
School Magazine analysis
For my preliminary task I am designing a school magazine. I have done some research on what a school magazine looks like. School magazines are designed different to other magazines in the way they attract their audience. Magazines advertise their front covers with pictures of students studying hard or showing students having success. This is the opposite of a beauty and fashion magazine who feature exposed woman to represent sexual stances in order to make profit. This is because schools aren't going for that image. Schools want to look professional and successful. The cover lines on a school magazine usually advertise activities going on at school or small competitions within the school. You won't often find a barcode on a school magazine as they are usually given out for free.
Friday, 18 September 2015
What I learnt about magazine covers
Today in media we are learning about the front covers of magazines. The front cover of a magazine is its main selling point of the magazine. The front cover is designed to target particular types of people. Front covers always have a Masthead. The Masthead is the name of the magazine which is often printed at the top. Magazines are recognised by their masthead and they are often styled to the target audience. Most magazines will have a tagline near the masthead which shows what the magazine is about.
Every front cover has a central image. The central image is the first thing your eye is attracted to before you read the masthead or any subtitles. The central image will be related to the magazine theme and attract the audience it is aiming for. For the centre image a cover model is commonly used. This cover model with often be a celebrity or a model connected with the magazines genre.
The anchorage is refers to the image about what it is trying to portray. The anchorage will usually be in big bold writing as it is the main feature of that issue. Secondary images are small pictures on the magazine front cover that briefly tell you about articles inside the magazine. Secondary images are anchored by coverlines, captions, headlines or by articles. There are often many coverlines on the front cover which tell readers about the contents of the magazine such as specific articles.
The mode of address is the way that the magazine communicates with the reader. This can be done through directing the text at the user using words like 'you'. The mode of address can also be directed at the user by making the cover model point at the camera.
The puff on a magazine cover is a device to attract attention to the magazine. They will advertise certain elements in the magazine such as a competition or freebie inside. Puffs are often shaped and placed on a coloured background so that they stand out.
Pugs are a part of the magazines front cover that will display a particular promotion for that specific edition of the magazine, or it may just show the price. The barcode, the price and the edition are simple factors of the front cover but are strategically placed because they must not cover any of the covers principle features.
The use of colour on a magazine front cover is important because you want the magazine to attract someone's eye. Some magazines alter their colour schemes on items such as the masthead or coverlines every edition, whereas some just coordinate colours to go with the central image.
The fonts used on a magazine cover are chosen specifically for the text they are displaying. There are usually many different fonts used on one cover because magazine designers often use different fonts for different sections of text.
Every front cover has a central image. The central image is the first thing your eye is attracted to before you read the masthead or any subtitles. The central image will be related to the magazine theme and attract the audience it is aiming for. For the centre image a cover model is commonly used. This cover model with often be a celebrity or a model connected with the magazines genre.
The anchorage is refers to the image about what it is trying to portray. The anchorage will usually be in big bold writing as it is the main feature of that issue. Secondary images are small pictures on the magazine front cover that briefly tell you about articles inside the magazine. Secondary images are anchored by coverlines, captions, headlines or by articles. There are often many coverlines on the front cover which tell readers about the contents of the magazine such as specific articles.
The mode of address is the way that the magazine communicates with the reader. This can be done through directing the text at the user using words like 'you'. The mode of address can also be directed at the user by making the cover model point at the camera.
The puff on a magazine cover is a device to attract attention to the magazine. They will advertise certain elements in the magazine such as a competition or freebie inside. Puffs are often shaped and placed on a coloured background so that they stand out.
Pugs are a part of the magazines front cover that will display a particular promotion for that specific edition of the magazine, or it may just show the price. The barcode, the price and the edition are simple factors of the front cover but are strategically placed because they must not cover any of the covers principle features.
The use of colour on a magazine front cover is important because you want the magazine to attract someone's eye. Some magazines alter their colour schemes on items such as the masthead or coverlines every edition, whereas some just coordinate colours to go with the central image.
The fonts used on a magazine cover are chosen specifically for the text they are displaying. There are usually many different fonts used on one cover because magazine designers often use different fonts for different sections of text.
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