Production Project: Magazine

By Aziza and Terri

We asked 56 girls, aged between 14 and 19 what their favourite colour was. Here is what we found out.

We also asked 56 girls how old they were, for research, here is what we found out.

Bright colours, not all really girly.

Girly colours but not too much its sickening

No capital letters, informal.

Writing is not all straight as wonky writing adds a bit more interest.

Smile, isn’t fake, it natural.

Relaxed posture and pose, looks casual and natural.

Simply make up, not too much or too little, shows that you don’t need loads of make up to be beautiful

Celebrity endorsement, someone we all know and can aspire to.

Relationship advice and help.

Youthful language, language that all teens understand.

Not just fashion but real news too. News that teens will actually read as its in a teen mag.

Catchy and helps with self esteem Catchy slogan and

also can help with self esteem.

Plugs what is inside the mag.

Bright and smart casual dress.

Different font from the actual Vogue font. Also more causal font and more informal font.

Mine and Aziza’s magazine will be called Amiga, it will have a similar look to other magazines to help appeal to our Target Audience which is teenage girls from around 14 to 19.In our magazine there will be several different topics. Such as Fashion, Make-up, Shopping tips, Self help pages, super scrimping tips and agony aunt pages and lots more. To create our mock up for the magazine front cover we will use Microsoft Publisher, aided by Photoshop. Then to make the final product, we will use Adobe InDesign. The colour scheme will be not all girly colours like pinks and reds, but based around the colours that were most liked in our questionnaires. Also the magazine name “Amiga” is Spanish and it means a feminine friend.

Name: Elsa Age: 14Gender: female Where she lives: BromleyInterests: Fashion, Make-up, new in fashion, hair and shoppingHobbies: shopping, hair and make up on friends, reading fashion and style magazines, social networking, being with her friends. Fave colour: PurpleSocial Media: Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr

Date line and website address

Mast HeadCover line 1

Main Cover line

Plug

Quotes from main story

Bar code

Footer bar

Front Cover

Contents

page

Fashion pg 1

Fashion pg 2

Fashion pg 3

Cringe!

Those Mome

nts!

Cringe!

Those mome

nts!

Where to

shop!! Great offers

Shopping tips (super scrimp

s)

Revision

techniques

advertLatest celeb Goss!

Must watch

“n” listen

Latest music

“n” film

Star signs

Ask Wendy

& Millie

Ask Wendy

& Millie

Back cover with

adverts

Location – Crystal Palace Park!

Looking away photos Close up shots or mid shot

Extreme close up

24TH May 2012 www.amigamag.com

READ ALL ABOUT THE CELEB GOSSIP!! BIG NEWS!

CRINGY

MOMENTS!

READ ABOUT

OTHERS!

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Product and Task Evaluation

• I set out to create a magazine cover for teenage girls between 14 – 19. But in the end I ended up making not only the magazine cover but the contents page too. I went about making a magazine cover for a teenage girls magazine called Amiga by doing various research and lots of planning. For research I made questionnaires which I got people to fill out. The main two questions were “what is your favourite colour?” and “how old are you?” these were the main questions because I needed to find out what main colours to put on our magazine cover and the age range to who we make the magazine for. The planning for the magazine cover was to create mood boards, analyse other magazines and to create a rough sketch/a flat plan of the cover. I also had to create a quick mock up, but that didn’t follow the mock up because we could have done better with the real thing then the mock up. The key conventions of a magazine is that it has a large picture on the cover with a few plugs and sub stories, a barcode and price, along with the date line and web address by the title of the magazine. My medium of this project is a print out as it is a magazine cover. I intended on using these in my project by following the key conventions of a magazine cover and contents page. I targeted my audience by doing research into who is the best age range or target audience to target. I used the information gathered into to put together a plan and then finalise everything, the colour scheme and writing styles.