Title of the magazine
The title of my magazine is 'Teen Pop Obsession', I chose this as it will automatically appeal to my audience, who are young 'teenagers' who have an obsession with pop music, I believe this will catch my target audiences' eye and they will want to buy it. I chose 'Top of the pops' and 'Smash Hits' as my style models for my own magazine as I felt they have a similar vibe to what I wanted my magazine to have. They also have longer titles that consist of more than one word unlike 'Q' or 'NME' that are a lot smaller but still impact. The colours I have used will appeal to my target audience which are young teenage girls so stereotypically these will like pinks and blue and neutral pastel colours.
People
It was vital for me to find the right person for my magazine and that would represent my magazine well. This top of the pops magazine that features One Direction is a perfect style model for me as this band suits this edition perfectly as it says "BIGGEST+BEST pop mag' and they use the biggest and best boy band around right now like the magazine. This is when I realised that the cover stars personalities had to portray through the images.
For my cover star I had to chose the right person that would reflect the genre of my magazine well, so they had to look the part as this was vital for me. I believe the model I used was perfect for my magazine because she fitted into the role of a teenager that loved pop music and girly things well. My model had blonde long hair which is the view on a typical girly teenager as well as girly clothes like skirts/dresses with bright colours. Although she was portraying the view of an innocent girly girl she still had some attitude to show that she was still a teenager.
I believe images are the most important aspect of magazines so getting them right was crucial. My first go of taking the pictures didn't go well as when I went to put them on my magazine they were blurry so had to be re-shot again later on, I think I could of used the pictures if I wanted too because they weren't that bad but I think getting the right images was the best thing for my magazine. The poses the model did represented the look I was going for and I am very happy with them.
This copy of 'Billboard' magazine has Justin Bieber as their main star and I believe this image represents the publics view on Justin very well, he is seen as a cute, teen heartthrob that girls adore and here he is looking innocent but still some attitude for a big magazine like 'Billboard'.
The magazine has stayed true to Justin's image and haven't tried to turn him into something he isn't, which is what I have tried to do with my cover star.
Font and Style
The main thing I wanted for my font was to make it readable and presentable but also to look good as well. For the masthead I chose to have 'Teen Pop' in a bigger more clearer font as this the magazine being called this I felt that 'Pop' in bigger writing illustrates an actual pop of something. When I first started thinking about the masthead I had all the masthead in the same font and style but later on chose to change it to make it stand out more. The rest of the magazine is in fonts Arial Narrow or Century Gothic as I thought these two fonts were the easiest to read but still went well with the girly theme of my magazine.
Written Content
The writing on my double page spread and throughout the whole magazine had to be a key part to get right because it did take up so much space. I had to use language that my readers would understand.
Also looking at other magazines I saw that their contents page titles were brief and they only had a short sentence underneath to quickly explain the title.
As the cover star is only 16 I wanted to portray that in my interview with her in the double page spread so the questions are relaxed and informal and we talked about what fans want to her, as I am my own target audience in a sense.
Mise-En-Scene of images
Images are a huge part of any magazine and getting them right was crucial as this is what was going to attract my target audience to buy it. My main aim for my photos was to find someone that would act as a type of representative for the magazine and portray the right genre that people are expecting. I believe I chose the perfect person to model for me and the clothes, hair and makeup are all spot on too. The pink skirt look for the double page spread is very girly with her curly hair and natural makeup, she is also holding a microphone and I think without this people could get confused wether its a music magazine or not. On the contents page she is in a different outfit which is a matching flowery two piece which again goes with the genre of the magazine and portrays what I wanted it too. One thing I am happy about for all the images is the lighting, the fact that they didn't have to be edited with photoshop is good because they already looked professional.
The image (below) is the picture from my double page spread, this image is very simple with minimal makeup but still looks very effective. Like the front cover image the lighting is very bright and gives off a happy feel. The models clothes and look illustrates the music type in my magazine well. I kept the background plain here as I didn't feel like it needed distractions from other parts so I wanted it really stripped back.
Layout
The layout of my magazine was very important to me as if I didn't get it right it was have a major impact on the final look of my magazine. One thing I didn't want to happen was make the page look over-crowded and messy because this would hinder how successful the magazine would be.
On my front cover I chose to have the artist on the right hand side of the page and the masthead in the middle as I felt this gave the magazine a different dynamic to other magazine. Here I have found a copy of a professional magazine that has the image in the middle. The artist is directing in the middle of the page and the articles inside are surrounded by him, I found this with a lot of magazines when I did my research and wanted to do something slightly different. Although I changed the place of the picture I wanted to keep all the features of my magazine together so they were clear and visible to the audience.
On the other hand I kept my contents page fairly similar to my style models as I felt this looked best and simple works best. Looking at my style models I found that the subheadings tend to be in bold writing to stand out more navigate the readers to the right page quickly,this is what i've done to the artists names to draw the audience in. There are a lot of conventions that needed to go into my contents page so a key thing for me was to make sure like front cover it didn't get too cramped up and it was still clear to read. I chose to only use one image on my contents page because it already has a lot of writing on it so I felt that if I added more images the page would look too busy and the audience would zone out. In terms of the layout of the articles I kept these to the left hand side because we read from left to right and it flowed so much better.
Another convention I saw on different magazines was an editorial but not all of my style models had this and I felt that my contents page already gave the audience enough information so it didn't need an editorial, it would of taken up more space that really I didn't have and would make it look cramped.
For the double page spread I changed this a lot throughout the duration of making my magazine because I wanted to make it look as spacious as can be. One thing that I kept all the way through was the large 'T' in grey in the background which obviously stands for 'Tayla', it was something I saw in a magazine with Lady GaGa and it stood out a lot for me so I decided to put into my magazine too. It's something a little bit different than usual magazines and it just adds something nice onto the background instead of just white all the time. My double page spread has been clearly sectioned into three different parts, the heading, the interview and the image, this makes the page look spacious.
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