Time Management

Today's date is the 31st January and I  have completed 2/3 of the pieces, which are my double page spread and my cover of the magazine, and I am half way through my content page. This means I am on track to finish by Friday which is my deadline.

Audience Research 7

I have finished my Double Page spread however I have decided to try and put a background over it to make it look more like a professional story.
The before and after are below:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

I had a vote with my target audience to decided which was best, - again I took part in the vote:
BEFORE: 1
AFTER:   5

Because of this, I am going to keep the background in my double page spread. 

Audience Research 6

For my double page spread, as shown in my sketched draft, I want a lot of the page to be covered in some big funky writing to really catch the readers eye, I have had a look on 'dafont.com' and have narrowed it down to the following 4:

I showed all of these to my focus group and had a vote about which they feel would be best - I also took part in the vote (1 being the font at the top of the page, 4 being the bottom font) the results are as followed:

Font 1 - 1
Font 2 - 2
Font 3 - 0
Font 4 - 3

This meant my final decision was to go with the 4th font, which is called 'Capture It' by Magique Fonts .

Time Management Update

Today it is the 23rd January and I have completed my Magazine Cover, which means I am on track with my previous time line of all my deadlines - I am now going to start my Content Page. 

Audience Research 5

I have decided to name my magazine cover either 'GLAM' or 'GLAMOROUS ROCK' ..I asked my focus group which they thought would be more appropriate/which they preferred, and took a vote (again, I took part in the vote):

GLAM - 5
GLAMOROUS ROCK - 1

The main reasons for this was because although GLAM seems to sound less like a rock magazine, I am going to make it look like one with the way it is set out and the content of it, another reason is because it is short and easy to type across the page as my masthead and it will be easy to read, along with the fact that this still aims my magazine at a mainstream audience as well as the rock audience which is - 'glamorous rock.' The reasons against GLAMOROUS ROCK was mainly because it was too long to write across my masthead, although it would have been good as the word 'rock' is in the title of the magazine enhances the point that it is in fact a rock magazine. Weighing up all the pro's and con's, and especially looking at what my focus group thought of the two, I decided to call my magazine 'GLAM.'

Planning 4

On the previous blog post, I suggested to my focus group that I add more photographs to the magazine cover. After doing this, I also have decided to add more things and stories, to make it yet again, more busier on the page as this is exactly what all the other rock magazine's do to achieve good sales and a professional looking magazine cover.

Below is a more detailed and final plan/design of my final magazine cover.

KEY:
The 2 black boxes represent other pictures of Livv, as posters
The straight lines represent writing
The circle represents my models face
The star represents the star which is on my models face
The different colour long boxes represent extra information
The line up the right hand side of my magazine represents the website
The white box at the bottom right represents the bar code
The big pink box across the top is the masthead 

Audience Research 4

After getting my original feedback from my focus group and agreeing it was okay, whilst actually producing my cover I found that compared to most for the other rock magazine's I have looked at, it seemed pretty plain seen as most of the rock magazine covers generally had a lot going on, some of them even had alternative pictures (for example in a 'poster special') Two of these are shown below:

Fortunately, I took an extra 2 photographs of the cover star, and so I suggested to my focus group that I add these 2 photo's to my front cover, (however editing them quite dramatically and cropping them) to add a poster special and to make the magazine cover a lot more busy, hopefully making it look more similar to the rock magazine which are on sale at the moment.

Below is some of my feedback: - 

Hannah Clifford	6:06 PM (30 minutes ago)
to Samm Slingsby

Sounds good!! 

Hannnnns xxx

Liv Rose

11:13 PM (1hour 41 minutes ago)

to Samm Slingsby

Hii, yeah sounds good, I think it will look a lot better all busy yano xxx

Livs x

Amy Edwards	7:13 PM (21 minutes ago)
to Samm Slingsby

GGood plan I think, I think it should defo be busier than the 1st draft anyway seemed a bit plain xxxxxxxx

After reading these emails, I decided to put the two photographs which are below in to my magazine cover as well, as an additional add on poster special on the cover of my magazine.