Magazine cover update

Progress so far

The type of shot I used was a long shot in order to get all of the clothing and background in frame. I used white clothing to represent a “god” like feeling, representing her as a god, the most important thing on the cover. This promotes females’ power. The font I chose to use was a curved, non-italicised, sans serif font to imitate a candy cane, to further this representation I added the colour pattern of the white and red to the title. However, I felt like this was too childish at the end and so wouldn’t appeal to my target audience of 16-24-year olds.

Over the last month I have been working on my two front covers and contents pages, I am writing to update this blog about my progress so far on these two covers and contents pages.  In my first magazine cover I had created original images using my camera and one of my two models called Abbie. I had taken an image of a house decorated in Christmas lights just after it had rained. I had done this to show the religiosity of the model as to represent two different social groups, I chose to take the images after it had rained as this would reflect the lights on the floor and make the image might brighter and colourful, allowing it to stand out from other magazines on a shelf at a store. However, I shall not be using this cover as one of my final two as it is too detailed and draws attention away from the ‘fashion’ genre and model. I also felt that this front cover did not convey the certain house style that Bauer Media had created and therefore didn’t fit the criteria from the brief.

 The type of shot I used was a long shot in order to get all of the clothing and background in frame. I used white clothing to represent a “god” like feeling, representing her as a god, the most important thing on the cover. This promotes females’ power as she is seen as almighty and powerful. The font I chose to use was a curved, non-italicised, serif font to imitate a candy cane. To further the representation of a candy cane, I added the colours and pattern of a typical candy cane, the white, red and the slanted gaps between them. However, I felt like this was too childish at the end and so wouldn’t appeal to my target audience of 16-24 year olds.

After looking at this I felt that it didn’t convey the house style that Bauer have created, and didn't appeal to my target audience of digitally naïve 16-24 year-olds. I felt that the Masthead was too childish in the colours and the font that I chose. The colours of the overall image, whilst appealing, may attract younger audiences rather than slightly older, mature audiences. Because of this I shall not be using this as one of my two final magazine covers and so will have to plan for another shoot using my white, female model.

I am currently in the process of creating my second magazine cover, I have only taken the base images so far and have yet to choose which are the best and then edit them.