Photography Inspiration (Main Inspiration)

This was the picture that inspired my whole photo shoot. This image inspired me because I liked the lighting and the use of shadows. I also liked the way they had her hair in the shot and the clothing they had picked for the photo shoot. I Picked this photo for my main inspiration, because I liked how they used Black and White instead of colour, because you don't normally see anything in black and white anymore. I would like to use a shot like this in my magazine somewhere. However, I wouldn't choose to use it as my main image for my front cover, because I think there are too many shadows for a magazine front cover and I want the reader to be able to see my model clearly instead of her being in the shadows. I like how relaxed and calm her body language is in this shot. Since I am creating a music magazine for the Pop Genre, I want my model to look as comfortable as possible during the shoot, because I don't want to pose her like she should be on a Heavy Metal magazine, because that isn't the genre I am aiming for, for my end result.

This is the moodboard I am going to refer back to when I come to designing my own magazine front cover and when I am planning my outfits, including hair and make up, for my magazine photoshoot.

Photography Inspiration (2)

I decided to create another mood board looking specifically at photos from different photoshoots. Most of the images I chose are either in black and white or use the Sepia filter. However, I have included images that do use colour, like the image I have used from Clash magazine. I chose the image from Clash Magazine, because the low camera angle that has been used isn't normally seen on a front cover of a magazine. I was also inspired by the lighting in this shot, because the lighting that's used is a studio lighting, but it's a soft key lighting. The other colour images have quite dark lighting and have use of more shadows.

Photography Inspiration

I have created a mood board for my Photography inspiration, this includes any image that has came to my attention, because of the lighting, the camera angle, or the final editing that has been used. Most of the shots I have included are from the waist up and are mid shots. The images I chose either have natural lighting or a bright studio light. All shots I chose are in colour, because my genre of magazine is a pop magazine, and all of the pop magazines I have researched use colour in their images. The image of Jessie J would be a good image to use on on the Front Cover of a magazine, because she is in the center of the frame. The images of The Vamps at the bottom of the page would be good to use on a Double Page Spread, because the photo has been taken from the chest up, and they are in the center of the frame.

Institutional Research

Institution	Details	Publications
Emap	EMAP owns industry-leading brands that sit at the heart of business powerful B2B communities like Retail, Health, Construction, Architecture, and Fashion.  Our purpose is to connect professional communities and inspire them to know, to grow, progress and win.  Brands such as HSJ and Retail Week create deep relationships and unparalleled reach, to increase value for our customers.  We deliver this through senior networking events; industry leading awards; online data products; social media communities; headline conferences and, of course, critical insight, news and analysis.  We hear the market agenda, and create innovative solutions and better ways for our advertisers and sponsors to connect with their audience. We provide highly valued subscription services and are rewarded by a following.	Retail Week  Retail Jeweller NursingTimes.net Lighting
Conde Nast	Condé Nast is home to some of the world’s most celebrated media brands. In the United States, Condé Nast publishes 18 consumer magazines, four business-to-business publications, 27 websites, and more than 50 apps for mobile and tablet devices, all of which define excellence in their categories. The company also owns Fairchild Fashion Media (FFM), whose portfolio of brands serves as the leading source of news and analysis for the global fashion community. Condé Nast has won more National Magazine Awards over the past ten years than all of its competitors combined.	Glamour  Vouge Vanity Fair  Easy Living  House and Garden Tatler  GQ
Natmags	Hearst Magazines UK is a trading name of National Magazine Company Ltd, established in 1910, by William Randolph Hearst and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst Corporation, one of the largest diversified media companies. It’s major interests include magazine, newspaper and business publishing , cable networks, television and radio broadcasting, internet business, TV production and distribution, newspaper features distribution and real estate.	Elle  Cosmopolitan  Sugar Scape  Esquire  Company
Time inc. UK	With more than 60 iconic media brands, IPC creates content for multiple platforms, across print, online, mobile, tablets and events.  As the UK's leading consumer magazine publisher we engage with 26m UK adults - almost two thirds of UK women and 42% of UK men. Our award winning portfolio of websites reaches over 25 million users globally every month. IPC Media is committed to working in partnership with its consumers, advertisers, business partners and employees to deliver exceptional value, service, innovation and creativity.	NME Women and Home Teen Now Look
Future Publishing	Future is an award-winning international media group and leading digital business. We reach more than 51 million international consumers a month and create world-class content and advertising solutions for passionate consumers online, on tablet & smartphone and in print. We hold leading positions in Technology, Games, Film, Music, Women’s Creative, Photography, Creative & Design, Sport and Auto. Recognised as an international leader in digital publishing, Future’s online presence has grown by 46% year-on-year.	3D World  Edge Fast Car ImagineFX GamesMaster Triathlon  Your Family Tree
Bauer Media	Bauer Media is a division of the Bauer Media Group, Europe’s largest privately owned publishing Group. The Group is a worldwide media empire offering over 300 magazines in 15 countries, as well as online, TV and radio stations. Bauer Media joined the Bauer Media Group in January 2008 following acquisition of Emap plc’s consumer and specialist magazines, radio, TV, online and digital businesses. Collectively, the Group employs some 6,400 people. Bauer Media is a multi-platform UK-based media Group consisting of many companies collected around two main divisions – Magazines and Radio - widely recognised and rewarded as being industry innovators.	Grazia  Kerrang  Q Empire  Mojo

I done some Institutional Research on some Conglomerates that produce Music Magazines, I have included a little bit about each Conglomerate and how the other magazines they produce and how they compare to the music magazines they produce. I have included some examples of what other magazines they produce.  

Preliminary Task

This is the final product for my preliminary task, including both my Front Cover and the Contents Page. I'm happy with how they turned out as a final product. However, I wish I used better variations of colour and  better colour scheme on the front cover, because it doesn't look as colorful as the contents page.I also wished I changed the colour of the 'Win! a trip to Rome!' font, because it doesn't stand out very well on the background image. 

I think my final products came out the way I wanted them to, but with a few minor complications like the font colour problem. 

Flat Plans for Preliminary Task

These are the flat plans for my college magazine 'College Weekly'. I had decided to make the design of my college magazine as simple as possible, because I didn't want to overcomplicate the cover with too much going on since I planned to keep the full image when I got round to the creation of the magazine instead of getting rid of the background of the image, so I made sure the cover wasn't going to be too busy. 

When I came round to design the contents page of my college magazine, I wanted to keep the simplistic design of the front cover throughout the rest of the magazine. I decided to take some of the college logo artwork and use it kind of like a border around the page to give the page more colour, because the art work is the colour scheme of the college, which is 3 different shades of orange, two different shades of blue and one shade of blue. I plan to make 3 of the articles the main focus on the contents page, and I put those in boxes to separate them from the rest of the articles to the right. I placed the rest of the articles on the right hand side because people generally read from right to left, so they would be the last thing the audience looks at on the page. 

Review Previous Student Work

In class we were split into groups to review previous student work.  Each group got a Front Cover, a Contents Page and a Double Page Spread from a previous student's work. While reviewing the work we had to consider what we liked about the work, what could be improved, what the magazine was inspired by and the demographic of the magazine.

The group I was in was given this magazine to review:

The first thing we noticed was the magazine's inspiration. This specific magazine was inspired by a Kerrang! issue. We also noticed that the genre for the magazine was easily recognised as a Rock magazine and this is shown through the colour scheme, the masthead, images used and the layout. These are also some of the generic conventions of the Rock magazine genre and the Rock genre in general. 

The main fault we had with this magazine is that the student had used the same model in each of the photos but just changed the costume. This makes the validity of the magazine questionable, because you wouldn't see a magazine on the shelf of a shop with only one model throughout the magazine. 

The only other problem we had with his front cover was his main cover line, that goes across the page like a banner. The cover line's font doesn't fit in with the magazine he wants to create, the cover line looks out of place on the front cover. The font should have been integrated into the rest of the magazine somehow to make it look like its apart of the same magazine.