Drafts

Construction Schedule

Construction Schedule

In this construction schedule I will make a plan for how I am going to make my magazine front cover, contents page and featured article and how how long I will spend on each section over the ten weeks that I have to construct these three pieces.

For week one and two I plan to make the drafts for my front cover, contents page and featured article I will construct these drafts without using images and just planning the placement of things like mastheads, images, titles, etc. and choosing what kinds of images and text I will use for my articles.

On week three I plan to take all of the images that I will use on all three sections of my product the images will consist of the people and props I will use and the locations they will be in.

Week four and five I will construct my front cover by using photoshop and the images that would have taken a week before I started this task.

I will construct my contents page on week six by using the plan and template I made on week one or two and by using the images I previously took, while I use other contents pages for inspiration.

Following the order that my tasks would appear in a magazine I will make my featured article on week seven and eight by using my original plan and images. I will need to make up create a completely new article that would fit into a music magazine about rock, metal and punk.

This would leave me with the final two weeks to check over my work for mistakes and to add any improvements if needed.

Colours Mood Board

Colours Mood Board

I have chosen these colours and shades for my project because they are associated with my target audience when use in certain combinations, for example when black is used with blue it creates an illusion of the blue being amplified. I have chosen colours like gold or shades of orange to highlight certain fonts for the articles of my magazine. I have chosen the metallic mixture of shades of white, grey and black because this is the kind of background that is commonly used in other magazines linked in with my selection of music genre for my project.

The colour black is usually used in magazines to set the mood of the reader to relaxed so they can enjoy the content of the magazines and when white is used as a background it is easier to see things on the pages such as pictures or fonts. I have also chosen other colours like purple and green and the shades of them that I have selected because they were highly requested in my audience research task, so I will use them either on the front cover to advertise a specific article of on the contents page for the same reason.

Location/Props/Costumes.

Location, Props and Costumes.

For the location part of this task I will be taking pictures of my target audience in either a local cemetery or a place where teenagers would stereotypically be, such as a coffee shop or in collage.

The props that I may use include a guitar for my selected person who will be photographed to hold or another instrument that is associated with rock metal or punk music such as an electric bass guitar.

The costumes that would be used in the photoshoot would be clothes that a punk-rocker would be expected to wear, these include jeans, torn clothing hi-top shoes ect.

I have chosen not to take my pictures in a studio because It will be easier and more time efficient to take a picture of the person at the location, rather that taking separate pictures of the person and location and then using photoshop to combine them.

I have chosen these locations props and costume because it will allow my product to be easily recognised as a punk-rock or metal magazine. These things will relate to my target audience because it would be where a teenager or young adult (my target audience) would stereotypically be and doing.

Fonts Mood Board

Fonts Mood Board

I have chosen these fonts for my punk, rock and metal music magazine for multiple reasons, the first is to draw the attention of my selected target audience (teens and young adults). Another reason to use these fonts is to boldly presents the title and/or masthead of the magazine in a simple way that can be easily understood. I have chosen most of these fonts because they look messy or goth-like which is what teenagers stereotypically are. Some of these fonts are somewhat difficult to read but this may attract my target audience. Another reason why I have chosen these fonts is because they are the kinds of fonts used on other similar magazines so my projects can be easily recognised as a punk rock and metal magazine.

Target Audience Mood Board

Target Audience Mood Board.

The target audience that will be aimed at by my project will be teenagers and young adults of both genres. I have chosen these age groups because they are commonly associated with rock, metal and punk music. This age group is also most likely to attend festivals, skate and use social media, so i can include information about articles of these subjects on the contents page of my final product.

This age group (teens and young adults) stereotypically are interested in rock, punk and metal music, so this is a good choice of a target audience for a magazine based on the same genres of music.

The images I have chosen are of teenagers and young adults wearing clothes that are associated with my selected genres of music. I have also provided these pictures to demonstrate what kinds of images I will use in my final product and what kind of people will read my final product if it were to be distributed as a real music magazine.

Advertisers Mood Board

Advertisers Mood Board

The advertisers that i have chosen are technology companies, social media sites, fast food restaurants, car companies and brands of clothing. I have chosen these because these advertisers are commonly associated with my chosen target audience (teenagers and young adults). I have also chosen advertisers such as Kerrang and Q because the produce music magazines similar to the magazine that I will produce. I have chosen social media sites such as facebook and twitter because these are ways of communicating and can spread information about magazines. Teenagers are associated with videogame consoles such as the playstation 4 or the xbox one and the advertisers could also choose to advertises the available games or software. I have also included the television channels E4 and the BBC because there is a wide range of things that these companies could advertise such as other tv shows aimed at teenagers and young adults. Coffee shops like Costa and Starbucks would be a part of a teenagers everyday life so it would be a good decision to have either one advertise in a magazine aimed at teens, this is the same for food business like McDonalds or KFC because my target audience would often go to these places. And finally clothing brands such as Puma or Nike would interest young adults because they are a popular choice of clothing.