Font

I found this font on the website http://www.fontspace.com/jonathan-s-harris/street-wild. In order to be able to use this font on my website I had to get in touch with the designer Jonathan Harris. I later recieved confirmation about using this font. It fits in with the style of my magazine, as the magazine is for teenage girls interested in music and social life. It gives off a vibe that would urge people to buy the magazine and overall is a good font to use.

Magazine Progress

I am currently writing my article for my magazine. I have asked a number of questions which are in red and the responses in black. This makes it easy to identify  the Q&A's whilst fitting in with my house style of red, black and white. Some of the questions are related to music and hwo success occured however some were just for entertainment to make the article more fun to read.

Writing the Article

My main task today was to start getting my article written. This would consist of two sides of A4 on Word in the font Times New Roman and font size 12. I have to write this into paragraphs as putting it into colums would be a waste of time and it would be easier to do this on Photoshop. My main idea when creating this article was to think of something that would appeal to the audience the magazine was aimed at. This meant they would be more intreged to buy it as the story was for their age group and covered all of their main interests.

Double page article flat plans

Contents page flat plan

Front cover flat plan

Flat-Plans

I have now designed my flatplans. I looked at other examples from the internet and used these to help me when creating my own. I used basic magazine features such as a masthead, images, bold text and on the contents page I used an A-Z index in order to make the navigation around the magazine easier. I will scan these into my computer and later load them onto the blog. My next task is to start creating my article, front cover and contents page along with taking my photographs that fit in with the theme of my magazine.

Uses and Gratifications

One of my tasks was to write a blog post on the uses and gratifications in media in society. I had to look at how this applied to a number of magazines I had recently looked at and how I would be able to include all of them into my own once it was created. To help me with this I used the website http://heworthmediastudies.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/uses-and-gratifications-and.html . It included alot of helpful information that I could use in order to complete the last bit of the music magazine task successfully.

One of the objectives in this task was to create an appropriate reader profile. I had to look at the results I had receieved from my survey and base the profile around this. I inlcuded the colour pink which is related to girls in general society and included images that I would associate with teenage girls who are interested in music and social life. the images will draw in a reader as they might think they apply to them as they are both interested in the same things as what are included on the reader profile.