First Look at my Magazine

The Front Cover

I have inserted an image of my front cover, how it looks so far. Whilst looking at the work I have produced I can see that I followed one of the plans I originally made whilst planning out my work. However this magazine front cover does not look like a pop magazine and it would be very hard to identify it as a magazine in the pop genre. Because of these reasons I am going to try and change some other features on the front up and hopefully ensure it will start to look more like a pop magazine. To do this I will change the colour scheme I used- for example I used my second idea of colour scheme for this front cover and to make to more identifiable as pop I will use my first idea for the colour scheme. I will also change the background as most pop magazines back the image on a colour and this is a convention I think that I should follow to ensure it is seen as a pop magazine. I will also look in to changing the text font I used on the front as again it does not look like the fonts usually used on a pop magazine front cover.

The Contents Page

Along with changing the colour scheme and font on the front cover, I will also be changing the colours and fonts used on the Contents page. I will not however be changing the layout and I will be keeping the image I used on this contents page for the next stage of creating my contents page, as I believe it is very effective in what I am aiming for.

The Double Page Spread

I will be changing the font I used on this page as looking back over existing magazine double page spreads, none use capital letters for the whole articles and this is something I believe needs changing in order to create a successful double page. Along with the other two pages I will ensure themes of my colour scheme is present in the article. 

The Conclusion

As a result of these parts that I have identified needing a change, I will now be going and ensuring these changes are made before the deadline, and are done to the best of my ability

Photo Shoot

The Task
The model I used for my photos was my sister, I chose her as I felt she represented the age of my target audience as well as a person who could fit in to the pop genre. When planning for my photo shoot I had a few ideas of what images I would like to capture. Some of these are that I wanted shots of her holding an instrument of a kind- I also wanted her in two different outfits as I found that lots of pop magazines have the featured artist in different clothes on the front cover and double page spread. This was important as I wanted to ensure I was following some conventions of a pop magazine. When shooting for my front cover picture I had initially intended to get a shot of her looking straight on to the camera. However when taking the pictures I did not manage to get a photo that I felt would connect with the audience. I originally planned to do the shoot at night however I did not take in to consideration any plans that she may have and in the end had to settle for photographing her in the evening. Something that is portrayed in some of the pictures is her reluctance to be photographed this is something that I tried to fix later on however I believe that this may still come across. Another issue I had was the lighting within my house as how it translated on the camera- using the camera is not one of my strong points and unfortunately this may be seen in the images however I believe that I may later on be able to fix this through the use of photoshop. 

The Research