Plan to produce my front cover

WEEKLY PLAN FOR MY FRONT COVER

1.Google Mock ups
-(designing my headline, cover lines, prizes, masthead, showing how i am planning it before i take my photographs) x 3.
-Start taking my images

2. Start taking my images
 -  at least 4 original images
 -20 different approaches

3.Constructing your front cover

4.Constructing front cover

5.Deadline: Friday 19th December

6. EXAM WEEK

ALL WORTH 60% OF MY FINAL GRADE!!

The design of my masthead

These are different suggestions of fonts to pick for my front cover. I have picked the font of lithos pro because it has a very dance feel about it as it is all seperate and dance music is definitely seperate to classical music as well as making it stand out with just 3 letters.

These are the different types of colours for my font "Lithos Pro". I like many types of the font, however, I am going to make a google mock up of the colours "MIX" with a while colour for the "M" "X" and the "I" in a yellow font and also MIX with the white colour for "M" "X" and red for the "I".

First google mock up

This is my first attempt at my google mock up. I have used a white plain background because I have not taken my pictures yet so I will not know what it will turn out like on my mock up. As you can see, I have used my mast head "MIX" onto a black rectangle to show the effect of the white and yellow colours. I think it is effective because it shows a dynamic illuminious effect like I would want my picture to be shown on the google mock up.

 This is a screenshot of an illuminious picture on Google I have found which I would want my picture to look like. I have chosen this because the picture goes well with the black rectangle outside of the mast head "MIX" and also I have put the layer of the picture before that rectangle so it gives the full effect of the picture to be shown when a customer will want to buy it.

 This is a screenshot of me putting a plug on my magazine. However, the use of the colours of the plug which is white does not look good with yellow writing because it is very hard to see against a black background and also white and yellow does not go together.

This is a screenshot of me trying the opposite colours of the plug. This still doesn't look good against the black background, you cannot understand what the words actually say and it doesn't link with the background. 

 This is my screenshot of me putting a headline onto my front cover. I have used "Gouty spout font" as "LEEDS FESTIVAL" to make it stand out for the readers. Also, I have used the font lithos pro for "Going for it in leeds" with a bright yellow effect which follows the pattern of the front cover. I have also changed the opacity of the yellow plug to 80% so then it is not that bright which the readers can then read the writing inside the plug. I have got the barcode off of the internet to make it realistic.

This is the screenshot of adding more headlines onto the front cover.

 This is me completing my final first mock up.

This is my final mock up. I have chosen a completely new original name as well as putting more names onto the side of the mock up front cover.

Google mock up 2

This is my second mock up I have created. I have changed "MIX" into a different colour with the "I" to show a different neon colour to represent the dance music. I have also changed the way the main story line is instead of being straight along the bottom of the picture. I have also changed the picture as I wanted to see what the front cover would look like with a long shot.

 This is me adding storylines to the front cover. With the same fonts as mock up 1 but all i have done is change the colour to orange. Also, for the main headline "My aim is to please my fans!" i have used rotation so it links with the main headline cover story. I have also added some features such as going onto layer, layer style and going on inner shadow to create a different tone and effect onto the writing. For distance i have changed it to 8, choke is on 18 and size is on 6 to create a bigger effect.

I have added the same plug in the same position. This is the final product of the google mock up 2.

Google Mock Up 3

 This is my final google mock up. I have decided to change the picture again as i don't know which camera framing I would like to use so i have used different types of google images.

I have changed the position of the plug so it doesn't get contaminated with the regular neon colours with the uv light. Personally, I think it looks better at the side and the top because it keeps all the focus onto the main story line which is "Amy Beats".





The name of my magazine

I have chosen a dance genre for my magazine for an age group for 17-19 year olds. These are some of the suggested names for my magazine:


These are the names I used for my survey:

• MIX
• DJ BEATS
• BOOM
• EXPLODE
• LIGHTS

These are the rest of the names I can think of:

• EXPLOSION
• SPOTLIGHT
• MIC
• MOONLIGHT
• DANCE TILL' DAWN
• CLICK
• CRAZY

I have come to the conclusion that the name of my magazine is going to be called "MIX". This is because it is very short and snappy and it dignifies what the magazine is about. Also, when I did the survey 50% of the people who asnwered the survey said that MIX was the best one.

Survey Monkey Results

This is to show whether the audience is mainly female or male and who I'm going to be publishing it for.

This shows that the audience will be ranging between mainly 17-19 year olds showing that they are mostly into their club music and partying which means I need to reach out to that audience.

Again, this shows that the readers will be mainly students who are looking for a good time whilst out partying.

This is showing me that mainly people who are reading this are earning money up to £10k and are able to go out clubbing.

As there are many males who have done the survey, 46% believed that Calvin Harris is the better musician because he is more aware with teens and has the right music for the right club-goers.

With this, it shows that society is different to how it used to be. Now we have technology, more 17-19 year olds listen to downloaded MP3's rather than buying CD's or listening to things on the radio.

Most 17-19 year olds now go to watch live music about twice a year because music (especially clubbing) are exciting to go see and get the atmosphere from the crowds and that is what most teenagers want.

Unfortunately in this question, the audience cannot decide whether they prefer reading about music every week or never, This is quite drastic as most teenagers would rather go and see their artists as well as reading about them.

This screenshot tells me that many people like the name "Explode" as well as "MIX". I have to now make a decision to choose which one I prefer for my magazine.

The last question is unanimous. All the people who voted on this survey have showed me that they would be paying £3-£4 due to the cost of the magazine. This is showing me that the cost of my magazine will be within this category.