Planning: My Top Magazine Photos

Top Magazine Photos:

This is one of my favourite photos for a potential front cover as I feel the natural outdoor lighting from this photo is very good. The capture details the face very well. You have a clear representation on this photo that someone is jogging listening to music. This adds to the health concerns of today.

I decided to do this photo at the end of the cleethorpes beach near the marsh area the reason I did this as a lot of people run down here or walk which works with the health representation theme.






This is one of my favourite photos for another potential front cover. I feel the natural outdoor lighting from this photo is very good. Especially the sunlight the helps capture this photo. You have a clear representation on this photo that they are students or university students hanging out waiting for the bus. This was a reason why I did this at the bus stop as a location.

The photo is a high angled shot that is shot to the side. The reason I choose to do a high angled shot was due to the way the friendship links strongly together to show the powerfulness of them.

This is another one of my favourite photos for a potential front cover or as a contents page. I feel when I took this on a bright sunny day the camera work will with the sunlight to give a good glow and exposure to the image. You have a clear representation that they are using their smart watch to check how well they did. This adds to the health concerns that are around today. Wondering if people are focusing on what it is telling you too much.

This is another one of my favourite photos for a potential front cover or as a contents page. The image here I feel is a good image as it focus on the lifestyle theme of the travel section of my magazine. It gives a clear representation of someone using technology by looking at other people's lifestyles. This was quite a hard capture to take as there was a lot of sunlight that day but wanting a photo with an outdoor location with a POV shot. There is a little bit of reflection of in the bottom corner. I hope I can remove this so I can use this in my coursework.

This is another one of my favourite photos for a potential contents page. The image here I feel is a good image as it clearly shows the representation of it being retro technology. As I zoomed in to take a different angle to get people to notice what this product is. There is a little bit of bright exposure with the white background but when creating my magazine i can crop or edit this to make it work. But overall I do think this is a good clear image.





I have over roughly 70 photos that I will be using. But these are just some of my photos that are good to explain why I have chosen to take these to create different representations for my 2 magazines. Also the quality of the image that has been taken.

Research: Colour theme in magazines

Colour themes

I have selected a few entertainment magazines to compare the the look and colour themes. I chosen Take a Break, Whats on TV, Inside soap and OK!.

This is just a range of entertainment magazines and as you can see these magazines use a red and white colours for their masthead. This is a colour that I will be staying away from as this colours are really common for mastheads in other magazines too. The colour themes that are used in magazines and other magazines do contrast really well e.g red and yellow and orange, blue. This means that I will be choosing what will work well together but are not over used in other magazines. 

Research: A gap in the market​

Gap in the market 

Hearst does not have any entertainment magazines really for our TA audience of 16-25. However, Bauer Media has some that are for our age category but not until 18-25. They don't have anything that fits the 16-17 year olds.  

On the Bauer Media website if you use their banner on the homepage and click on the heading brands then the sub heading audience finder. This takes you to all the magazines they have and you can use the age category section to scroll to the age there is. As you can see it only starts at 18 for our TA.

This is the magazines that Bauer Media sell that they categories as 18-25. This suggest that I need to target the 16-17 year olds that little bit more when making my magazine.

Front cover: Selection: Points of findings

Take a Break Magazine

This is the magazine I chosen to annotate all the magazine features that is there with media language, codes and conventions etc.

This magazine is TA is 16-18 year old that is at a lower demographic and i feel this is targeted more at women.

The magazine uses a noticeable brand identity in order for audiences to understand this brand. The "bigger prizes than any mag" is in a circle at the top of the magazine. This is to make the magazine stand out when placed upwards in the store. The magazine uses a strap-line "your favourite weekly" this is again to attract audiences to this magazines as it is on the top. This is in a bold sans serif font.

The magazine uses contrasting colours for the prices you can win. These are in a yellow and white font. Also it is in sans serif font. This is another added feature to attract audiences to win these prices. Next to the prices there is a good quality image of a medium close up of a women. She is facing the camera as well.

The Stories advertise can be quite gossip, factual and negative. The main story on the magazine uses slang "Hubby" this adds to the gossip style of the magazine. It uses bold sans serif font. Also adds the colour red and yellow "He couldn't stop getting married" this adds to attracting colours for the audience. They uses quite a poor quality photo to advertise the headline.

Next, are the off lead stories. These stories are feel that should be the main story a these are shown very negative and want to be read more as its more factual than gossip. The off lead "was I pregnant by my boyfriend or rapist?" This is in a bold sans serif font. These uses red and yellow to stand out and show the evilness of this and danger of the red. The off lead "OAP to OMG" is very gossip style to make gossip readers to read this. The advert "Treat yourself" is quite a positive advert which is underneath the negative stories.