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Final Front Cover + Contents Page

Production Plan

Risk Assessment

Rough sketches of how the layout of my magazine cover and contents will be

Appealing to my Target Audience

I will make my magazine appeal to students interested in photography by having a large medium close-up shot of a student, the photo will be edited to show different photographic skills, I will make the photo as clear as possible so people who notice it will understand what it's about. As the masthead will be bold, and clear spelling out 'Aperture' underneath the masthead will be a tag-line stating 'how much will you let in' this will attract a lot of students as it's not straight to the point and can be read differently. The bar code will be directly below the tag-line to the right of the cover. along with the date and price. As I've previously said my target audience will be C1/B on the Jicnars scale. I will most likely price my magazine at £3-£4 as I believe the students reading it can afford that without worrying about money. All of my text on the cover of the magazine Will be Black and White, block colours, or reversed out cover-lines which shows creativity and gives the cover an artistic twang which is clearly what photography is about. I will also have at the bottom of the Cover I will have a puff promoting a competition to win a state of the art camera and a trip to L.A (not that they can't afford it anyway) most of the text will be layout to the left hand side to the cover, I will also use sophisticated language to make the posh students feel at home, however I will use more simple language to make the C1 students not feel out of place.

The model will have a serious but intrigued look on his face, the shot will be concentrated on his face trying to capture as much detail as possible. The photo will be in a dynamic black and white shot and will taken outside, which aims to give a subliminal message that the world is at your feet so go and explore it.

Initial Research 1

This is my research about the covers and contents pages of magazines

My target audience

For my magazine project I have to create a detailed description of the target audience I want my magazine to attract. I'm going to have my magazine specifically for Photography students or people interested in the subject. So first of all I'm not ruling out anybody as I want as many students to read my magazine as possible, So i'd have a qwerky yet understanding masthead with a majority of different taglines, presented in a majority of ways, all with an introduction to diverse content. However I will aim my magazine to mostly catch the attention of  college students instead of university as I feel I have a wider understanding of college rather than university. The audience I will mainly appeal to would be aged around 15-19 male or female and most probably either C1 OR B on the Jicnars scale. They would be this high on the scale due to there parents situation as photography is an expensive subject, so students living in an environment around an E or D on the Jicnars scale wouldn't work. The students that I would want to read my magazine would be aspirer's and the majority would be radicals. I can tell this from doing the subject myself that the students would want to work/live independently. These people would shop in waitrose not tesco. These people would buy there lunch not bring a packed lunch. These people would like quiet weekends not going to clubs. These people would like travelling not staying at home. These people would take things for granted instead of appreciate it.

Initial Research 2

I have researched different magazine covers in order to gain knowledge to what attracts the student audience

Preliminary Project

Hello, I'm Jordan. For my project I'm going to use desktop publishing and an image manipulation program in order to form a front cover of a new college magazine. This cover will feature a photograph of a student, probably taken at medium close-up, with this photo there will text laid out across the cover along with a masthead. Along with this I will also create a lay-out of a contents page to demonstrate a glimpse of desktop publishing.