CONTENTS PAGE PLAN

I drew up a plan for my contents page so I could have a clear idea when it comes to creating my finished magazine. It was drawn in pencil with no colour so I have more freedom, however I have a simple colour scheme in mind.

                      

 

These are just the initial colours I have in mind. I chose to use black and white as when I was previously researched about colour theory I discovered that an accented neutral pallete looks effective as colours are made to appear brighter. Also it shows a sense of unity as most of the colours are variations of each other (black and pink). The blue is a contrast to the other colours I have selected and I am planning on only using this for words or sentences which I want to make stand out, I may use variations of the blue when making my final page. I would like to use gradients on my contents page as I think they are minimalistic yet will make it look more interesting.

On the bottom of my contents page I am going to have a bar which gives the reader names of the magazine's various social media accounts. This is a modern way of encouraging audience participation so will be suitable for my target audience and will possibly result in a larger amount of people hearing about, and therefore buying, the magazine.

As the title of my magazine is "foe", I am going to put four images of the model together as though they were taken in a photobooth and name this 'FOEtobooth'. Foe and the beginning of photo sound similar and will therefore make this familiar to the reader and should create a sense of comedy, making the audince more comfortable when reading.

The writing I am going to have on the page will be split into three columns titled 'cover articles, 'the usuals' and 'extras'. Clearly labelling them and spacing them out will make it look neater and will mean the audience are able to distinguish each section.

 

For the page numbers, rather than just having the number I am going to have them laid out as hundreds, tens and units to give it a more interesting feel and so all numbers will be same width, therefore making it look less messy.

 

I'm not sure wether I like my contents page design so I may make some changes as I think the background being white would look too plain and boring so I might make some graphics to place behind the text and images. I also might only make one column of text on my contents page showing where the cover articles are inside the magazine as the usual articles will be in the same areas, this will give me more space to place photographs.
 

CONTENTS PAGE SKETCH

SHOT LIST 2

PHOTOSHOOT

In the plan I made for my photoshoot I said the pictures were to be taken at Bussey Building in Peckham, however I changed this and they were taken at my house instead. I still managed to take the photographs in front of a blank wall and the model was able to change into the outfits planned. 

PHOTOSHOOT

These are the photos i took of my model on the shoot. They are taken against a blank wall to make it easier for me to photoshop them, and also making the images look more simplistic. The model is wearing simple dark colours like I planned to make her hair and make up stand out. There were five outfit changes so i had several options on what images to use. 

The photographs are mainly close up or mid length shots as I want them to look intimate when I create my magazine. 

I am going to edit some pictures into black and white to enable me to add colour with fonts and graphics.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

Using social networking sites in order to communicate with my readers would be a good idea, several excisting music magazines have succesful accounts on sites such as twitter and facebook in order to interact with their target audience, or to try and gain a younger following.

"It worships the creative amateur: the self-taught filmmaker, the dorm-room musician, the unpublished writer. It suggests that everyone- even the most poorly educated and inarticulate amongst us- can and should use digital media to express to express and realize themselves. Web 2.0 'empowers' our creativity, it 'democratizes' media, it 'levels the playing field' between experts and amateurs. The enemy of 2.0 is 'elitist' traditional media"

-Andrew Keen, The Weekly Standard

Andrew Keen's idea is that anybody who uses social media is some sort of publisher. Any time a tweet is written, no matter who may do it, they are a media publisher, sharing their ideas with the world.
This is also used as a way of engaging with the audience, in the modern age when a new film is released a website is then created for it. From this several accounts are created on seperate social media networks. For example the website for the 2013 film  American Hustle gives you the option to share the site address on twitter ot google+, and also has icons which link you to popular apps such as instagram, facebook, twitter and tumblr.  This means that any fan of the film is able to communicate with the stars or producers to voice their opinion, which their idol may respond to, furthermore making them feel included in the film industry.

TYPOGRAPHY FEEDBACK

I posted this tweet in order to gain more audience feedback from my followers, they all fit into my age group and therefore are the perfect people to ask. Using social media to do research is useful as I have the ability to gather information quickly from several different people.

Eight people replied telling me the font they preferred out of the ten options I gave them from which I learnt that number 3 and number 6 where the most successful. The majority of people told me they favored number six, I also like this font and will therefore be using this for my magazine title.