Ideas/Planning

Monday 5th July 2021

Ideas/Planning

Target Audience -

16 - 25 year olds.

Things to include on front cover:

• Masthead.
• Cover lines.
• Photos to go alongside cover lines.
• Barcode.
• Price.
• Issue number.
• Date.

Things to consider:

• Colour palette.
• Font style.
• Shapes used.

Commonly used on a magazine cover:

• Masthead.
• Cover lines (between 4 - 5 cover lines).
• Colour Palette - usually bold and bright colours like pink, purple, blues and a lot of reds and yellows. 
• Text - usually white with an outline or black however can be coloured.
• Main Image - person (mid shot or medium close up) cut away from the background.
• Smaller images - next to/link to cover lines.
• Price, barcode & issue number. 

Things to include on contents:

• Articles featured in the magazine.
• Columns for the articles featured in the magazine,
• Images around the main text/contents.
• Lines sectioning off text.
• Subheadings to split the articles into sections.
• Ways to get in touch.

Things to consider:

• Colour palette.
• Photos featured.
• Similar to the front cover.

Planning my magazine covers and contents page

Magazine Cover Ideas:

Masthead -

Cover Lines -

Photos -

Image taken that can be cut out - main image - mid shot/medium close up. 

Smaller photos to go along with the cover lines - Taken anywhere, don't have to be as high quality.

Colour Palette - 

Bright colours - Red, Yellow, Blue, Pink

Monday 12th July 2021

Layout in general-

• Images with cover lines and page numbers next to them in a shape (probably a circle).
• Images with border around them.
• Cover lines in solid block colour shapes. 
• Main image - of a person, probably a mid shot or a medium close up (currently unsure which one would work better), cut away from the background used to take the picture and put on a colour background which links into the colour scheme.
• Colour palette - bright colours - Red, yellow, blue, pink.
• Text colour - a mixture of white & black and a mixture of the colours featured in the colour palette.
• Masthead - White text with a red background shape (maybe have an outline, unsure currently) 
• Price
• Barcode
• Issue number
• Date

Contents Page Ideas:

Articles featured in the magazine- 

Number of column for the contents page-

2 to 3 columns (most likely 3).

Images-

• Images covering the top half of the contents page - straight and at an angle.
• Page numbers for where you can find the articles.
• less likely to have boxes around them. 

Subheadings for articles-

• Magazine cover articles (on the cover).
• Other true stories.

Ways to get in touch-

• Coloured box in the bottom left hand corner where there will be @'s and other ways to find the magazines social media's and ways to get in touch. Not completely touching the bottom of the magazine page.

Layout in general-

• Article lists - contents list for page numbers.
• Subheadings.
• Ways to get in touch - relies on the masthead name to sort out possible link addresses.
• Images on the top half of the contents page - pages numbers to link to where you'd find the article to go along with the photos.
• Stick to the same colour palette as the cover.
• Lines to section of where the article names start and end - keeping it packed neatly and separate from the images and anything else on the page - next to the ways to get in touch box - bottom right hand side of the page, not at the bottom as there will be a page number + the magazine name - will be separated from the article names because of the lines. 

Things that need to be done - FRONT COVER:

• Select a colour for the background of the magazine cover (from colour palette list).
• Make a list of possible people to be photographed.
• Take a range of images (for main image) and decide between using a medium close up or a mid shot. - have taken some but still need to bring them in.
• Sort out cover lines.
• Decide what images I want to use for the images to go alongside the cover lines on the front cover.
• Think of a name for the magazine - masthead.
• Make the masthead, using the plan of red and white, common masthead colours.
• Decide on Article page numbers to go on the front cover with the images and cover lines.
• Plan the layout using indesign.

Things that need to be done - CONTENTS PAGE:

• Article list - divide into whats more important to go on the magazine cover.
• Subheadings to split the articles on the list into. 
• Images based around something at the top half of the contents page, page numbers to link to where in the magazine you can find them.
• Stick to the same colour palette as the cover of the magazine
• Have a 'ways to get in touch', suggests that its professional, links to the masthead/name of the magazine. 
• Use shape in the left hand corner, for ways to get in touch, and for images page numbers on the contents page.
• Lines - to separate sections
• Page number + magazine name right at the bottom of the page?

Where lines would be used:

• To separate the images on the top half on the contents page to the bottom half. 

People to photograph:

Morgan 

Aiden

Shannon 

Alfie 

Rhys 

Tanya 

Cover Line - Ideas:

Recipies

Health 

Family - problematic

Animals

Images used so far:

Article list: 

• Man caught beating a seagull says he shouldn't be punished for his crimes.
• Cat stolen by neighbour returns 2 years later in poor conditions.
• Women's break-up, makes people realise why they broke up.
• How I made my fortune on instagram