Flat Plans

Front page flat plans.

Contents flat plan. 

Initial ideas

My first idea for my magazine was that i would make it a music magazine and that i needed a cover and title that would appeal to my target audience. From this i made a specification on what my target audience was and what i could use to appeal to them.

• 16 to 20 year olds - By using language and colours that appeal to this age group and using words that aren't too lengthy
• Students at college - by making it quick and easy to read so it is not too time consuming.
• Male and female - by making nothing gender specific for example no quizzes that involve 'how much you love justin bieber' and using colours that appeal to both genders.
• Middle class - using language that will be easy to read but not too dim witted.

I will include on the front page a main image relevant to college life with a cluster of sub images displaying multiple features in the magazine

FINIHs

To what extent should magazines be held responsible for the social ramifications of the

representations they offer?

Magazines often give unrealistic examples of people as their main image. For example, on many young teen magazines, male or female, then main image is often a super slim celebrity who has been edited and airbrushed to look more attractive for the cover of the magazine. A young teen girl would not know this and would be convinced that this is was she ought to look like, influencing her to do things to her body which are completely unnecessary for her age like dieting or excessive make up. Again with males on magazines, they are always portrayed as tall and muscular which could make young males feel insecure.

A lot of the features in magazines refer to how to get a Perfect 'X'. This will put pressure on the readers as they will then try to become more like what the magazine is telling them is perfect. Magazines have the ability to mould young readers to whatever they like. For example they could simply make a feature on what is 'in and out' and the youth will more than likely follow it.

The way the magazines represent the modern teenage girl, who for this example imagine is the target audience for the magazine, is pretty much whatever they want it to be. The main focus for most magazines aimed at this audience feature mostly celebrities and gossip. The girls will see these celebrities as role models which will influence how they act, dress and even life goals and aspirations as seeing these glamorous celebrities in magazines with loads of money could influence what the reader wants to be. The magazines are pressuring the kids to grow up way faster than they ought to but promoting use of make-up, hair products, and even in some cases plastic surgery due to the excessive amount of inappropriate role models the magazines choose to feature. Magazines  Feature a lot of quizzes, some of which have such titles as "are you snogging enough?" which is hardly relevant to the life of a potentially young female.

In conclusion i feel that magazines are to be held responsible for social ramifications of the representations they offer because they make unrealistic claims on what people should look like and mould the younger generation to be way too active with things like make-up far too early than they should be. then again alot of magazines are created to give tips for education or real life possible situations that could be concerning the reader.

The universal audience for this is very large as it is does not have specified colours to suit a specific gender or age group. The magazine widens the audience by including a wide verity of genres and bands. Muse is a very popular band with the teenage population and as it it used as a main image it will attract a lot of attention. The Sub image in the bottom right had corner of the cover features The Beatles which are very popular throughout all generations and genders which will again increase the number of people in the target audience.
The fact that the Band member from Muse is hitting the Q logo with his guitar which implys that their band has done something significant for example got a 'smash hit'.
The style of clothes the band member from Muse is wearing will influence people of a similar style to take an interest into his music as well as his stance and facial expressions as if he was on the cover of the magazine in a business suit and tie with boring plain hair people might be less attracted to pick up the magazine as it doesn't relate to them.

The conventions of the magazine are the Logo as there is never going to be a magazine without a masthead.
Another convention is the main feature. The main feature in this magazine is Muse. Muse would of been the main feature of this magazine as they would have done something that would of got them popular in the media around that time for example they got an award for one of the best acts playing at Reading and Leeds festival 2011 as well as My Chemical Romance and The Midnight Beast.
The bar at the top of the magazine says "The UK's biggest music magazine", this will attract more potential buyers as people will know that it is a good trending magazine with quality information.

My first page

I was given a camera to go outside and take pictures so i could upload them to my blog. i used the elipse frame too to insert my pictures into and then edit them to make them more attractive.

I have never used a mac before so the software is very new to me