Contents Page Photoshoot

These are the photos I liked best from my photoshoot:

1. Radio / Hi-Fi

After I'd 'smart fixed' both photos on photoshop and changed the brightness + contrast, I decided that the first photo (without flash) looked better, so I lassoed out the background and colour filtered it to light blue:

2. Many CDs

Out of these two photos I chose the first one as it came out less blurry than the other one. I also 'smart fixed' this photo to make it even less blurry, and I adjusted the brightness + contrast because without flash it appeared a bit too dark:

3. Classic Guitar

Even though in the planning for the photoshoot I said that I would not use flash for this photo, I found that there was not enough natural lighting to make the image look bright enough. I also decided to experiment with different angles as I thought that this would make the contents page look more interesting. In the end I thought that the second picture looked best on the page as it also filled more space, so I used the 'Magnetic Lasso Tool' to get rid of the background:

Contents Page Photoshoot Plan

Front Cover

I decided that the house colours for my magazine would be purple, pink and blue after carrying out my questionnaire. I therefore mostly used these colours when creating my front cover. With my cover lines, I made the kickers a different colour from the explanatory text because I had seen this done in other magazines. It also made the page more colourful, which related to the genre of 'FUSE' which is mostly pop. Pop is usually associated with multicolour / technicolour (see Mood Board). I feel that the masthead font links in well to modern music theme, so I kept it for the sell line and date because they were close to the masthead.

I managed to give the button the pattern of the union jack using Adobe Photoshop. I feel that the colours of the flag provide a bright, eye-catching contrast to the other colours used on the page.

I also used Photoshop to make the model in the picture's head come over the masthead. I used this technique because many popular magazines do it because they are already so well known that they are recognisable even if part of their masthead is hidden. I wanted this idea to be created on my front page.

I rotated the barcode and put it on the side of the page so that it would not fill up the space needed for my cover lines and so that the right hand side of the page would not be too empty.

In my cover lines I included buzz words such as 'EXCLUSIVE' and 'WIN!' to attract the reader. I also used the words 'SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK n ROLL' in my main coverline because this kind of language will appeal to my target audience- young adults.

I made some slight changes to my mock up. Instead of putting the date underneath the sell line I decided to put it on top of the masthead as I felt this took up less space.

However, all the coverlines are positioned as explained in the mock up. I placed the main coverline in the bottom right corner because I thought it looked good there and I saw this done frequently in other magazines such as 'Marie Claire':

Front Cover Photoshoot

Front Cover Photoshoot Plan

Double Page Spread Presentation

Questionnaire

I chose a wide variety of questions so that most aspects of my magazine front cover could be based on the preferences of the people questioned, who are also the target audience of my magazine (teenagers-young adults). I got ideas for questions from looking at examples of questionnaires other people had made before. I also thought of the conventions of magazine front covers such as the masthead and sticking to house colours and asked relevant questions. I looked at other magazines when planning my front cover so that I could get realistic options. For example, when asking what price would be the most reasonable, I put prices that I knew were realistic for a magazine, which were in between £1 and £3, rather than giving exagerrated prices like £10 or 1p.