Title Adjusting

I chose the name 'Tuned In' for my magazine, a play on words. Today I decided to change the magazine title to 'Tuned' because it is shorter and snappier, and still has the same clever play on words and it will look better with my simple theme!

Sketches

These are the sketched mock-ups of what i'm hoping my magazine will look like. I am happy with the look of them but I think the contents page could do with some work as it is quite plain at the moment. I'm hoping that after some experimenting on photoshop, I can come up with something more interesting for it.

Audience Profiling

AGE: 16-25
OCCUPATION: Student.
BACKGROUND: Quirky, different, classy.
LIKES: Fashion, live music, art, celebrity culture.
DISLIKES: Chavs, unoriginality.
AMBITIONS: Creative job, e.g. musician/designer, to travel.
MUSICAL PREFERENCE: Indie, acoustic, electro, alternative-pop.
LOOKS UP TO/IDOLISES: The Olsen twins, Fearne Cotton, Nick Grimshaw, Alex Turner.
MEDIA CONSUMER HABITS: TV- Gossip Girl, Friends, Skins. Magazines- ELLE, NME, GQ, Lula. Film Genre- comedies, thrillers, independent, romance.

Inspiration

When I was browsing the internet for ideas to add effect to my front cover to stop it looking boring, I came across this ELLE magazine cover and loved the three photos blended into one and how the magazine title sits across it without restricting the photos. I want to use something similar for my magazine cover because it looks classy and simple, but shows skill and character.

Pitch Feedback

Pitch Feedback


The feedback has give me confidence in my idea and inspired me to do a few things different e.g. not showing enough technical skill. I'm going to concentrate on putting interesting effects on my photos and playing with layering etc to broaden and demonstrate my skill in photoshop. The suggestion of having bright colours for a 'pop fun look' definately works well and I am going to go ahead with this to make my photos even more quirky and fun. A classmate reminded me of the fact that my fonts and photos should relate back to the theme of a music magazine, so I need to be careful that I don't veer away from that with my photos.

Possible Colour Schemes

I like these colour schemes because they are fairly neutral and so would appeal to both girls and boys. They're simple and the colours don't clash, as there is only one bright colour in the three.

Font Ideas

I have decided on the name 'Tuned In' for my magazine and have been experimenting with different fonts to use for my front cover. I have come to the conclusion that I want to use something quite fun and different that looks as if it has been handwritten. I think for my masthead though that it needs to be bold, more like the bottom font than any of the others.