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 Package 3 - 27/09/21 When starting to put the magazine together I decided to use shapes to help with the placement of text and to help to magazine to stand out like all real life magazines do. By the 3rd package and the 3rd lesson I'd decided on the font which I had wanted to use throughout my magazine to make it look conventional and like a real life magazine. By this time I've managed to take a few photos and had started to add them where I want them to be. At this point the only thing I hadn't started or considered was a cover for the second issue.  Package 6 - 18/10/21 Note: contents pages didn't change.  By package 6 I'd added many elements, and decided to copy the layout from my first issue for my second after looking at multiple different real life magazines and coming to the conclusion that they tend to keep the same layout over all of the different issues, the only main difference in the colours used over the magazine. By this point I hadn't yet decide...

Wednesday 12th May 2021 Research: Codes and Conventions L/O: To analyse similar products. Magazine Analysis: Two covers and two contents pages for:  Genre codes and conventions - content & layout How house style is established /use of font/colour/images Representation - magazine & artists  Ideology Production Values TA appeals/links Cover 1: Real life magazines use very bold and bright colours, despite the cover lines that feature on their covers. They use a lot of red's, yellows and purple here with a white font on top of the colours. The writing is seen in a white bold font which is mostly covering a plain block colour background with only occasionally having the text over the images. The background of this cover has a purple background and we can see that the main image has been cut out from another image, this suggests a lower production value because of where the image is not a studio taken image.  We see the brands masthead in a similar style to the cov...

Industry Research -  Bauer Who are Bauer? German multimedia conglomerate Reaches 200 million consumers worldwide Operates in 13 countries - Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Uk and USA. Bauer media group UK is No.1 Uk publisher and No.1 digital commercial audio broadcaster. What UK magazines do Bauer publish? Take a Break TV Choice That's Life Bella Mojo What are their values and ideologies? Creativity - unique, high quality content. Ambition - think big, bold and pushing boundaries embracing change. Trust - respectful and honest. Inclusivity - encourage different points of views and perspectives. Diversity - diversity is appreciated and supported.

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 feature...

Brief 3: Magazines and Online You work for an independent media production company. You have been given the task of producing one front cover and the contents pages of the first two editions of a new real-life story magazine that is being launched by Bauer and two pages for the working website for the magazine . Target Audience: A primarily 16-25 year old mass market audience that expects to be emotionally engaged . The web pages must promote the new magazine to it's target audience and enable fans to interact with the content . Production detail that must be included: Magazine covers and contents pages: At least 4 different main images using original photography across the magazine covers and contents pages. Editing of magazine covers and contents pages (including photos, text, graphics, typography and layout). Written texts including elements such as the masthead, main coverline, selling lines, headlines, captions, subtitles and copy. Barcode, date, edition and price infor...