Double Page Spread Flat Plan

Front Cover Feedback

We put our front covers on our screens in class and asked for peer feed back, to get an idea of what I could improve and whats good points.

Positive
- Creative Masthead
- Great Layout
- Very Girly Layout
- Colour Scheme Works Well
- Interesting girly font

Negative

- Add a tag line
- Drop the lines between the articles
- 'New Artist' should be changed to her name
- Reduce size of banner
- Sub head

Magazine Front Cover

Rationale - Front Cover

Image
For my front cover I am only going to use a main image and not any secondary images because i don't want to overcrowd the page as it looks more mature for a older teenager if i keep it rather 'simple'. The main image is going to be a medium shot and going to be placed on the right hand side of the magazine. Its going to be a direct image as my model will be facing the camera, giving a direct mode of address to our readers, communicating with individual readers and giving off a friendly approach to the magazine. The lighting for my image will be high-key and facial expression will be 'super smiler' or 'chocolate box'.

Colour Scheme
My colour scheme throughout my magazine there will be mainly pink and white, I chose these colours as it suits my target audience (teenage females, who enjoy pop music), and also it can be easily recognized as a pop magazine from the cover.

Background

My background of my front cover will be white, this is to make the cover look not too over crowded but make my main image and sell lines stand out. Also this type of plain background has been used successfully in other magazine covers, especially in the pop genre.

Puff

For my puff i am going to have a chance to win One Direction tickets, I used that band because they're a popular pop boy band that are huge in the music industry and known worldwide meaning my target audience are likely to listen to them. They are also recent in the media, meaning people will want to hear about them.

Masthead
I have chose this masthead in the font 'cheri', in my opinion it is very well fitting to the pop genre with the girly font, with the hearts and the colour. 

Draft Article

Draft magazine article - This is my draft article for my double page spread, I will most likely make amendments on this but this is just to get an idea on it.

MBS Magazine have had the fantastic opportunity to interview YouTube sensation, Kate Marrs on her new music video shoot for the hit single ‘who knows’!

Hiya Kate! Thanks for giving up some of your time to talk to us today, for our readers could you tell us a little about yourself?

It’s really my pleasure! Well, I’m “    “, 17 years young and just a girl with a passion for singing really! I started my YouTube channel around 2 years ago and I

Your first steps came from posting covers on YouTube from famous songs. Did you ever expect it to come up with millions of views on its way?

Not at all! If you see the quality of the covers I uploaded, I really had no idea it was going to get as many views as it did... I just hoped for the best really and got a lot more.

We get a sense of inspiration from the types of covers you done, which singers and bands would you say inspire you the most?

My main influences are kind of Demi Lavato, Taylor Swift, Little Mix, YouTube artists like Boyce Avenue and others, but I do all kinds of covers and make them my own really.

What’s the transition like going from just covering songs for YouTube in your bedroom, to getting noticed worldwide and releasing a new single and it being in the top charts like?

It’s been unbelievable so far, I still can’t believe it’s happening! I’ve been incredibly lucky and

What advice would you give to any of our readers that are thinking of starting a channel on YouTube?

The best thing you can do is not care what other people think, don’t take notice of any haters on the internet and focus on what you want to do, do what makes you happy!

How long did it take you to become a “famous” YouTuber?

I’m for sure not famous, there are a lot of more popular YouTubers out there, I just got a good opportunity when my record deal found my videos, but it took just over two years to get where my channel is right now

What’s the best thing about being a “Popular YouTuber”?

I’ll let you know when I am! But the increasing views means I get to connect with people around the world, and it’s nice for my work to get seen.

Thanks a lot for answering our questions and we wish you the best for the future. Just to finish with what would you like to say to your fans?

My pleasure! Thank you so much for having us today! I’d just like to thank everyone who supports me, it really means the world!

((A fact file on the side))

Real Name: Kate Marrs

Age: 17

Birthday: August 10^th

Fanmail Address: katemarrsfans@live.com

Favourite Books: Harry Potter or the perks of being a wallflower!

Favourite food: Mcdonalds or Nandos

Single/Taken: It’s a mystery!

Webside: http://www.youtube.com//coversbykate

Additional Inspirational Music and Artists

I would defiantly feature a band like One Direction in my pop themed music magazine because they are globally famous so everyone will know who they are and more people will be interested in reading the magazine, they are also recent artists who are very popular in my magazines genre pop. Also One direction are very appealing to young women, which are my target audience. I also have concert photos to go on my contents page of my magazine of One Direction from their tour. 

Font/Colour Sampling

These are some sample fonts I have been looking at for the article of my magazine and contents page writing, I like these types of fonts as they are not serious, plain font, it has more to it. I also like this font that I'm using (Georgia).

The colour scheme I'm going to use throughout my magazine are bright girly colours of light blue and pink with white.

Flat Plans

Front Cover 

Contents Page

Double Page Spread

Original Images (Concerts)

These are some photos I and my friends have taken at concerts that I am possibly going to use in my contents page, to ensure it's not all based around the same model/article. 

Further Target Audience Research

To do some extra target audience research I messaged my friend to ask her some questions now that the time has come to create my magazine I'd like to know some more opinions on people my age and from the same area.

Original Images

These are my favorite shots from the shoot, taken from the photographers website which is my the trade mark is still on the photos, he is going to email me the shots in good quality when I chose the ones I will be definitely using for the final product. 


Front Cover:

Contents Page/ Double Page Spread:

Pitch - Peer Feedback

To get feedback from our pitch we had a focus group of our class take a look at our pitches and say something positive and something that needs to be improved about our ideas, this was what was said about my pitch:


Positive

• Good detail in pitch
• Good colour scheme, very girly
• Nice abbreviation of MBS!
• Good ideas on the shoot
• Everything relates well to your genre
• Photoshoot well planned out

Negative 

• Use more colours in colour scheme, maybe add baby blue
• Details about the layout of magazine
• Haven't explained the price (essential information)
• Think about secondary audience
• Explain masthead

This feedback can help me in the production of my magazine as it says what needs to stay the same in my plans and what I can improve and what to change about my ideas.

Models Make Up

For my models make up I wanted to go for a very bright and girly look with someone with big features and a 
















These were the two lipsticks we decided to put together for the shoot, as it looks quite natural, but still gives the 

Semiotics Reading

Semiotics is the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. 

Semiotics is closely related to the field of linguistics, which, for its part, studies the structure and meaning of language more specifically. 

However, as different from linguistics, semiotics also studies non-linguistic sign systems. Semiotics is often divided into three branches:

• Semantics: Relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their denotata, or meaning
• Syntactics: Relations among signs in formal structures
• Pragmatics: Relation between signs and sign-using agents

For example if you see red you automatically think danger and stop. If you see green then you think go and nature. These have been taught to us through living our normal everyday lives. However its not just colours that can be used. Pictures, words, colours and sounds can normally be used. This will help a lot when it comes to creating my own magazine.

This has helped as i can now understand what people may think when they look at an image or words. I can use this in my own magazine to attract the target audience.

November Time Management

These are the main parts of my work I am hoping to get done and by a certain time this month, these are like my own deadlines I'm hoping to achieve in order to get the work done by the actual time and with all the content.