My Cover Photos

For my cover I narrowed my decisions down to 4 different images which all had their pros and cons of using.

They're all medium shots and all head on angles. I like the lighting on the first photo; the shaded corners in every corner, however I would need to crop the top quarter off, this will ruin the natural lighting. I like how close my third image is however my model is standing to the left therefore this will ruin my layout as I intended to have my logo to the right of the page. In the 2nd image I think the camera is quite far away from her face, which spoils the eye contact with the audience. I like the 4th image as I feel I could fit it on my cover well and keep the layout. The image is well lit and she's looking directly at the camera, and because of this I have decided to use this image as  my cover.

I have decided to use the 1st image in my contents page as I feel it will fit nicely on the page.

Cover flatpans

This is what I plan my cover to be layed out like. I will use this guide as to where things will go on my cover. 

My Ideas

The inspiration and ideas for my magazine's front cover came from three magazines; one childrens/teenagers magazine, one fashion magazine and a music magazine. As my magazine's main genre isn't just music as I found that in my research, in most Pop magazines they try to mix subjects that appeal to the target audience; music, fashion, celebrities etc. this gains a wider appeal.


Teen mag:                                   Fashion mag:                               Music mag:

 This magazine talks about music, fashion, TV and celebrities - most/all of these appeal to the majority of teenage girls.

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I tried and edited my logo for the cover of my magazine many times, I felt they all fit with my genre, also I think the top one may be slightly young and childish for my target audience. I like the teal coloured font with the pink stroke outlining it. However I like how bold the third one looks, and stands out the page.

After taking a questionnaire on my target audience asking them their favourite font and colour.

Here are my results in a pie chart:

Final Contents

This is my final attempt of my magazine, I slightly adjusted my background to keep it neat, as my plan from the beginning was to make sure it didn't get too busy and overly unorganized.

I am happy with my final contents page I feel that it could have slightly more photos however I had planned to keep it simple.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Changes to my contents

Next I tried adding a puff in the left hand corner to fill the gap, and I also added a tagline at the bottom of the page to make the magazine slightly more interesting.

Next I tried adding more colour, but staying with my co-odinated palette to see what it would look like as I felt it looked too plain for a teen magazine. Therefore I put a blue and pink background, to add to the brightness and boldness of my magazine. 

This is my first attempt at my magazine contents page, I plan to make it brighter and colourful. However I like how the bright blue and pink looks against the white. I think the 'Inside this month' article needs to be in bolder font to make it stand out from a distance. I also need to fill in the gap in the bottom left hand corner, I plan on putting a puff here of some sort. But I like how my editors note looks asthough its been hand written.

Contents page - Flatplans

These are the flaplans for my contents page, I want my magazine to be busy and filled with photos and text for the audience to look at and read. I discovered in my research this is often what happens in many pop magazines and teen magazines. Also with bright contrasting/ clashing colours; such as yellow and blue or orange and green. This keeps it bold and vibrant.


My inspiration for my contents page is this page from 'We Love Pop' magazine:

Its busy, bright and bold just  like how I want mine to look. I think I would like mine to look slightly more organized unlike this page as I find it hard to read as I am unsure where to look; however I am not the target audience therefore I chose to let my target audience decide if they'd prefer the magazine to be organized or slightly more jumbled like this one.

I showed 25 year eight students (12-13years) my magazine flat plan and the completed 'We Love Pop' magazine contents pages to see which one they'd prefer and here is the outcome in a pie chart:

1= We Love Pop layout
2= My layout


More people said they found reading We Love Pop magazine was hard as the layout wasn't orgnanised. This is why I am going to try to make mine slightly more readable for the consumers.

Final Double Page Spread

This is my final finished version of my magazine's double page spread. I have tried to come up wit a similar design to my inspiration (below) using my research to develop and build my magazine. However still keeping my target audience and own ideas in mind.