Due to a fault in my planning, I had to scrap the original idea and utilise plan B, which is to create a photography magazine, which means that I had to retake my cover photo and come up with new ideas in order to create this magazine.
This is an unforeseen issue and (at the time or writing this) I am trying to amend the issue as soon as possible.
Masthead-In large bold print with eye grabbing colours to get
attention, picture of a camera with identification along with page reference to
help readers get more information about
the available product.
Coverlines-Have small bits of info about what is contained inside
of the magazine, the bold stand out colours help to define it from the
background and helps to make the text more stand out.
Slogan-There is no discernible slogan on the front cover of
the magazine however that does not mean that this particular company.
Price
and Barcode-The price $5.99 helps us
to determine that this type of magazine is of a higher quality than some
others, the location of the barcode also helps us to determine the location of
the pricing and the date that the magazine was published.
Cover
Model-Objectified in a
stereotypical way of how women are sexualised in the media, with the exposed
legs and seductive pose in order to attract the typical male gaze in order to
get men to buy the magazine, the similar objectification is shown in her face
with indirect eye contact which shows that the viewer is the alpha also the
makeup making her face appear ideal and attractive makes the male gaze more
apparent.
The
purpose of this magazine is to inform people about photography elements as well
as helpful hints on how to make their photos better, it’s also designed to
appeal to those who do photography as either a hobby or profession as they’ll
be the target audience for this particular magazine but it can appeal to anyone.
The demographic for this particular magazine are people who are either amateur
photographers or for those who are just getting into it, and are looking for
little tips and tricks from the articles in this magazine in order to help them
improve it. However this is the targeted demographic, it can be targeted at
people who like to look at and examine photographs that look good that have
been taken by these in order to get inspiration or just for the pleasure of
viewing the works.
The
content that is usually contained in these kinds of magazines is usually
informative, as it gives you the history of the photographs (like when they
were taken, and what they are) and further in it’s giving tutorials almost,
about how they can use photoshop in order to fix their images and make them
look more appealing like those that are seen in the actual magazine itself.
This
factor combined with the subtitle headings at the top of each page reinforce
the point that the purpose of this magazine is to inform people about
photography as well as offer good photos for people to look at whilst they read
about how it was made. This means that this particular double page spread is
designed to teach as we can observe by the subtitle headings to each paragraph.
There’s
a small section in black which gives the reader advice on how to use the advice
that the magazine has given and what to use in order to achieve this as well as
offering some sample photos for the reader to see what to do and what to use in
order to achieve this.
The
spread layout of the photographs on the
double page spread helps to break up the images and for a better examination
for examples of what the magazine can demonstrate and for them to be able to
better connect what has been discussed inside the magazine in order for the
audience to have a better experience with the magazine.
Evaluation
of my magazine
I feel
that the arrangement of the coverlines is good although the text on them has
been stretched which has caused some disfigurement to them.
I’ll need
to fix the text and colouring as well in order to make it more legible for
readers.
The
underneath of the main title still has a bit of difficulty to read against the
colour of the bridge.
The
transparency of the Canon camera’s background works well in order to not ruin
the main cover image of the magazine.
The main
cover image works as an attention grabbing image in order to sell copies,
although it could have more of a model focus as typical of these magazines.
The front
cover also needs the price, barcode and date on it as well in order to make it
a better looking magazine and make it an official type as well.
The second
thing is the text, whilst there’s a good amount of it, there’s a certain amount
of illegibility with the text on the right due to the choice in colouring for
the text.
Also
there’s a distinct lack in the page numbers, meaning that it’ll be difficult to
navigate the magazine or for just trying to figure out where you are in the
magazine.
Another
missing element to the magazine and as is typical of these kinds of magazines,
there’s usually some kind of faint title at the tops of the pages which would
make it easier to identify where you are in the magazine.
The title
for this section could be more bold and pronounced rather than how it’s
currently, also the opacity could be changed to make it appear as though it is
in thee sky rather than having it just as an in your face kind of style in the
background.
The
target audience of my photography magazine is amateur photographers aged 20 to
35, there is no specific gender to my
magazine, the reason why I chose this age range is because this is the period
of time where these people will be looking for a career or hobby and my
magazine is designed to show this age grouping what photography is like as a
career path. The purpose of my magazine is to educate people on what photography
is like and how the audience can improve their images in order to get the most
out of it. The genre of this magazine is lifestyle.
The double page spread was not appealing for the type of magazine I was aiming for, there is just a plain background with block text, this would not be satisfying to a reader because of the dull layout and lack of examples to the relevance of the article. I then began to re-make its structure by shrinking the background image to fit the left hand side of the page in order to be able to have more images of the style talked about in the article.
I
also began to move the text and change its style in order to better suite what
I had aimed for.
This
change in structure also helped me to better style the magazine in a better
format to make it more eye catching and more visually pleasing for the reader.
After
re-working and bringing all the parts together here’s the end result of my
second attempt and I am much more pleased with the result, it has clear
division lines for the pint where the pages are joined together as well as clear
and separated photos in order to maximise viewing pleasure.
