Powerpoint Work

By looking through powerpoint's in my media lessons it has helped me to learnt different things on photography, and how it can effect the image on the front cover of a magazine. During getting taught about the different types of photography we learnt that that the essentials to take a good photographs were;

• The shot distance 
• The use of tilt/angle 
• Eye line (the way the model is looking at the camera) 
• Tone 
• Line 
• Colour, (including vivid and monochromatic)
• Texture 
• Patterns 

By learning this, it helped me when i was taking my own photos, to try and get the right light in the photo and try and i tried to get the eye line of my model to look down the camera, this is so that the model on the front cover of my magazine, is able to get a eye contact mainly with the people that are looking at my magazine. Also to do with photography i learnt different poses on images. The four main poses on the front of magazines are; invitational, super smile, romantic and sexual and chocolate box. The pose that i am planning on using on the front of my magazine is chocolate box, this is because there is no emotion showed on the models face, this doesn't give anything away to the reader. 

Other things that i have learnt by looking through the class powerpoint's are things like 

• Language used in magazines
• What makes up a magazine 
• Primary codes 
• Secondary codes

These things all helped me with what should go inside the magazine, to make my magazine good, and to get it up to the standard that are already on the market. 

Inspirational texts

Colour Scheme 

While i have been planning my magazine, i have been looking at different Fonts and colour schemes for my magazine..

My main colours for the front of my magazine are;

• Black
• White
• Red

I choose these colours because this is what i think would stand out to my audience, and its unique compared to all the coloured magazines that are shown on our shelves. At first my colour scheme was just going to be white and black, when i re thought about this i realised that i need some colour in my magazine, to make it stand out more and the first colour that came to mind was red. This is because it is a bright colour that stands out against other magazines and when people are just scanning over magazine shelves if there is a magazine with a bright colour on it, its more likely that they will pick up this magazine. It also inspired me to try and do something different compared to magazines that i have looked at previously. 

Fonts

While looking at different fonts, i found it hard trying to find a font that will carry on right the way through my magazine, keeping a recurring theme going. I have finally decided on doing one font for all of the writing right the way through the magazine, apart from the masthead which i have chose to do from dafont.com. 

 

The font that i have decided to do for my masthead on the magazine is called;  Varsity by Brøderbund Software. I chose this font because it was the font that stood out to me most, whilst i was looking through the site, and i thought that it would stand out on the front cover of a magazine. It also inspired me to use it because it is unique compared to the other fonts that i have seen on the front of magazines i have looked at in class and also magazine that i have read myself at home. 

The font that i have chose for the writing through-out my magazine is called;  Avenir Book. I chose this because it spaced close together like writing in other magazines. Also the size that i have choose for the font inside of the magazine on the article on the double page spread is size 12. I think this is a reasonable size for people to read, but also fit enough information onto the page, to write a decent enough article. The writing for sub headers, enigma codes etc, are going to be in size 17 to stand out to the audience and that they are able to see them clear enough and so they can get a idea of what kind of articles are going to be shown in my magazine. 

Jarvis cocker task

By doing this Jarvis cocker task it has taught me what needs to be put on the front of a magazine, by getting feedback from helen it's helped me to realise what I now need to add to the front cover of my own magazine. To try and improve my Jarvis cocker task I could have put more sell lines and an enigma code on the front of the magazine. Also could have used a brighter colour scheme to jump out to my audience more I could of also put the main sell line across the middle of the magazine cover to stand out to the audience and to name the person on the front cover. I took this into consideration to add to the front of my own front cover when I make it.

Magazine survey

I made a magazine survey, to give out to a number of people to get results in to help design and also the contents of my magazine. By getting results it will help me with my magazine to get a certain target audience, in the best way that I can for the age range that I want. It will also help me with the colour scheme and what people like to see in magazines. It will also help me make it more unique to my audience. This will create a niche in the market for my magazine.