G321: Foundation portfolio in media

Jasmine CulleyCandidate number : 2049

Centre number:27258

Chosen set brief

• Print – preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in a medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally, produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page.

These are questions I asked so I knew what I wanted to include in my magazine, I did a variety of questions to get the maximum answers that are useful as possible.

These screenshots show what my audience want in my magazine, and how I should lay my magazine out, to appeal to my target audience in my magazine cover I tried to follow these so my audience will want to buy the magazine.

Target audience for my

school/college magazine

Sport, music, fashion,

celebrities, world news

+music

Male and female

11-18 year olds

Homework, after school

activities, socializing,

jobs

Exam period, universities,

driving, coursework and

jobs

Interests

Gender

Age

Daily routine

conc

ern

Features advertised to appeal to my target audience

Topic of interest Feature Language on the cover

Fashion Seasonal trends What fashion do you like?

Driving lessons Best instructors around

Do you want to pass first time?

universities Personal statement tips

Do you wanna get in the top ten unis?

Applying for jobs Tips on how to get the job

Make more money

General chat embarrassing moments sent in

get the goss

Looking directly at the camera

Model in the centre

Date and price on the barcode

Bold masthead at the top

Cover lines on the sides advertising

what's in the magazine

Barcode bottom of the

cover

Colour on the magazine

Name of model on magazine

Title is the biggest font size

Medium close up

Advertisement of products

Topic stories on the page

Content title in bold text

Colour scheme of pink and

black

Numbers categorising

different stories

Content title at the top of the

page

Close up on the model

Success criteria •Plain background •Chunky simple text•Theme (font, colour)•Consistency•Use generic conventions •Max. 3 colours•Model looking at camera •Correct lighting •Not too much on the cover•Main article stand out •Well organised •Model to take majority of the page up•Magazine to grab audience’s attention

Prelim task

Target audience research

Answers to my target audience research

Generic Conventions

• Puff – words or phrases on the cover of a magazine used to boost status

• Cover lines - information about major articles given on the front of the magazine

• Masthead – the title • Plug – information about the contents of a

magazine on the front cover

contentRecognisable masthead

Central image

Barcode

Date + issue number Main Cover

line

Plug

Direct line of address

Contents layered over the main image so they can fit all information in on the front cover

Image overlaps the masthead – often on well known magazines

Content and other information is usually found on the left as readers read from left to right

Barcode and issue number and date is usually found on the right but in this magazine it is on the left and appear insignificant

Structure

Presentational devices

Range of fonts and font sizes to differentiate content

Colour theme mainly black, white and yellow

Photograph of Taylor swift relates to the main feature

Maintains the usual style of billboard magazines

Taylor swift represents as innocent, young and natural

Language

Imperative sentence

Rhyme to catch the readers attention

Representation of Lily Allen Representation of Eminem

Representation

Representation of lady GagaThe costume she is wearing is shown to be provocative although she is covering the front part of her body, which is not too exposing for a magazine, her body image shows her as teasing and daring, as she is starting to turn towards the camera and holding her finger to her mouth shows a sexual playful pose. She is positioned in a long shot to show her body image as playful and she wants to be represented as sexy. Her facial expression is serious and seductive, her makeup is quite bland apart from her eyes which are more bold as she has gone for the dark smoky look to draw attention to her eyes for a sexual image the panthers help represent this image, in the cover she has used panthers to represent her cover line as ‘sexy beast’ they make her seem dangerous and playful.

Lady gaga’s costume is bold and different because of how wide the shoulders are which represents lady gag to be unique and different to other pop stars, she has covered herself up with the black blazer except she's pulling it down at the side to attract the readers attention by showing she's got confidence and wants to tease the audience. Her facial expression shows her to be intense and powerful as she is staring into the camera her face is serious and she is gritting her teeth together to show sexual tension and intensity, she is positioned in a medium shot which shows the main part of her body image the shot makes the focus on the unique part of her which is her facial expression and her hair, her hair and make-up is wild and creative to show the readers what lady gaga is really like, bright purple shows she is wild and different the bow adds to it to make her more unique , the pose she is in shows confidence and power as she is stood up straight and showing herself off.

Eminems costume shows him as bland and powerful as everyone knows who he is so he doesn’t need a wild costume to set peoples attention on him, the necklace he is wearing represents him as faithful and sacred, he is in a medium shot to show the main part of his body and to focus on his facial expression, it shows his strength and independence by all his tattoos and by the way he is standing with his arms crossed shows anger and rage, his facial expression shows tense as he is frowning and his face is tight together.

Communicated through the mise-en-scene:

• Costume• Facial expression• Pose• Framing / shot type• Hair and make-up• Props

Planning

Costume – bright, dressy girly costume or something plain Props – if I chose a plain costume I will have more props involved Facial expression – either a serious tense face or a happy smiling face both looking directly at the camera Hair and makeup – bold and unique basic make up with bright lipstick to catch the audiences attention Shot type - medium shot or medium close up Pose – arms up high holding her hair

Masthead puff

Main coverline

Puffery

Tag line

Cover line

Barc

ode

Price

text

text

Image

text

Competition

Puffery

Image

VIBE

Annie tells her about her new hit

Annie Peers

Free downloads on the Top 10 hottest tracks (PG.23)

The music the money the mic’s

Cover line

Barc

ode

£2.50

20 beauty tips included in this issue

check out Miley Cyrus's new photo-shoot

Does beauty really sleep

work?

Win 2 tickets to see Justin Bieber

EXCLUSIVE: One Direction split !!

“I want to be the next Beyoncé ”

Front cover ideas

Contents ideas

Back cover ideas

Editing of my front cover

Text ideas

Generic conventions of content pages

Masthead – the ‘Q’ logo is on the magazine as it is the brand and it promotes it, it’s not very big as it is such a popular magazine, it has the title ‘contents’ after it in bold writing which is conventional as the reader knows what the page is for and they know what will be included in the magazine they buy.

The magazine has used the same colour scheme throughout the contents and have stuck to 3 main colours, using the same colours is conventional to a magazine so it all combines and looks more professional.

On the content page they have a main image which the reader will notice as it is the main feature which relates to the article on page 96 as they’ve made the text large and bold so the readers will know to read that as it is the main feature.

The issue number is used to differentiate each issue of the magazine.

A small image is also used as it will relate to a main article within the magazine it also promotes the content page more.

The content page is laid out with different page numbers talking about artists so readers know what's included

They are also advertising a feature for there magazine

The font stays the same throughout apart from the masthead as that is the main title so it is different from the rest.

Double page spread • Notes on double page spread: • In my interview there are not many questions asked, Bill Demain

is telling a story throughout the interview on his career, he explains how it felt to write a specific song, he tells the audience about the movie he made and how the song affected the audience.

• The interview is relayed to the reader as it is in short paragraphs.• No questions asked in the interview, the writer is telling the

audience what he can see going on in kirks life, the main topic is kirks life as he refused to do the interview.

• Lostprophets interview is different to the rest as there are specific questions being asked and the band give paragraphs of answers

Double page spread conventions

Final front cover and contents

Final double page spread