Preliminary Task I

School magazine - Planning

Who is the target audience? (Consider age, gender and interests)

16-18 years aimed towards students mixing from female to male.

What is the name of your magazine? What are the connotations of the name?

I have not yet come up with a permanent name for my magazine yet at this point in time.

Who will be your front cover model and why?

My front cover model would contain a student obviously because the magazine is based around school.

What sort of shot will it be? Inside/outside? Low/high angle?

My magazine front cover will take place outside where both the angle and shot will be medium.

What mise-en-scene will  be required? (Location, clothing and lighting)

Outside or inside school where if taken inside, would be next to a window enabling me to take advantage of the power of contrasting where lighting would range from dark to light or vice versa. Casual clothing also present.

What would be your sell lines? How will you entice your target audience?

Will contain certain events that are going on in the school as it will allow students to have better understanding of what is happening around the school. Also tips about work and important stuff about school comforting the student when in a buzz. Achievements will be on the sell lines because it will create a sudden curiosity where students will want to read on to find out how others did compared with theirs.

What items and feature articles would you need on your contents page?

Group front cover analysis

Front Cover Analysis

What genre of music does the magazine cover? Give evidence

Hip-hop and R&B - there are names mentioned such as TI and Jay Z who are Hip-hop artists. Reveals Keri Hilson a well known hip-hop artist

What are the connotations of the masthead?

The masthead is written with a large font to capture enough attention and is placed on the top third.

What can you say about the language techniques used by the headline and sell lines? Give evidence

Standard and simple English. Not too sophisticated. The headline 'Vibe' indicate a sense of R&B background seeing it sounds fluent and relative to music

What can you say about the layout style, particularly style and size of fonts and the colour scheme?

Very vague yet interesting colour scheme of blue slowly decreasing in brightness to the left. 'VIBE' is written in large font with a plain white colour however it is written on a jazzy font type of music specifically with the 'V'.

What can you say about the use of photography?

The photograph of Keri Hilson is almost a full body shot. Use of photography may reveal Keri Hilson a well known music artist which conveniently relates to the genre of the magazine in R&B and she's an R&B artist.

Does the front cover feature any other layout conventions?

The front cover of the magazine has a masthead, bar code, headline, sell lines, strap line, main image, a button.

Who are the target audience?

The target audience is mainly pointed towards R&B fans in which age ranges between middle to teens simply because of the scheme fits with the colour scheme and language etc.

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