Today I am going to be considering who to use as my model, for
example, will I use a group of them or just one person? And also how my overall
magazine cover is going to look.
Photographs
From the results of my questionnaire, I have figured out
that the Sixth Form students would like a magazine that is somewhere in-between
formal and informal, the evidence of this being that a majority of the students
chose ‘Beaverwood Times’ as the magazine name and that a majority of the
students would like gossip articles as well as academic ones too.
Due to this, I have decided that a small group of three
models will suit the needs of my target audience. The reason why is because I will
be trying to appeal to their social side by having the models interact with one
another, and also the Sixth Formers academic side as the student will be
working from texts books that are set up in front of them. I believe that this
will show how the school has a friendly atmosphere as well as an academically achieving
one.
Before I consider the ways in which the models will be
positioned, I need to think about my target audience itself. My target audience
is filled with both males and females, meaning that it needs to appeal to both
genders. This means that I will need to have at least one student of both genders within
the photo that will be on the front cover.
So, for my front cover, the way in which the models will be
positioned is vital as there are three of them and I am trying to send out the
right message. One model could be talking to the other about some work,
pointing to it with a smile on their face as the other listens with a smile and
a look of understanding on their face. The third model will be glancing over at
the other two, smiling at them while their pen hovers over a piece of paper,
ready to write. The angle in which I will be taking the photograph will be one
that faces the three students head on so that I catch their facial expression and
the work that is set up on the table in front of them.
Since the magazine will be based on Halloween, as requested
by my target audience, I was thinking of having some fake spiders scattered
across the table that my three models will be sitting at and maybe a Halloween
mask too. I decided against getting a
pumpkin as it may not fit on the table with the models’ textbooks.
In the other photographs I am going to use some of the
other locations around school, then I will have groups and single people
sitting around with fake spiders and Halloween masks to carry on the Halloween theme.
I will hopefully also have them trying to scare each other in a friendly
manner.
I hope to take my photographs at some point this week, this means that
on Monday I need to speak to my models and arrange when to take the photographs
and also who can bring in a the props if I cannot get some of them.
Layout of the magazine
This is how I would like
my cover to be laid out; below, I will explain in more detail about the design
of the front cover.
In this diagram, I have shown that my
background colour for the magazine will be black and that my title will also be
black as it will be based on an orange text box. With this colour scheme, it shows
that I am keeping with what my audience want as the theme, which is Halloween,
as these colours are often associated with this holiday.
I would like to have the photograph
of my three models taking up most of the space on the cover as I feel that this
would draw more attention to my magazine, and I also feel that it will show the
theme that I picked better as well, as my models will be surrounded by fake
spiders and a Halloween mask. I also think that in the top right-hand corner of
the magazine I will put an image of the Beaverwood badge there; this is so that
it is clear that it is a Beaverwood magazine and not for just any magazine.
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