Style Model -Inspiration

 A Style Model is where you get inspiration from a magazine, you can take ideas of anouther magazine and use them in your own, such as the colour scheme, or the way it is layed out.





These magazines are targeted at the same age as i am targeting at, Billboard features the Pop genre, they will feature artists that are well known, such as Lilly Allen.

I will take insperation from this magazines. i like the pale backgrounds and the expressions on the models.

I prefer the layout on the Q magazine, it features a left hand third and it is simplistic and i feel that it stands out.

The production of my magazine

I have used photoshop to create my magazine, photoshop allowed me to easily edit my photos and alter the layers of my images.  I prefer photoshop to Quark Xpress, this is because i feel that the layering in photoshop is much easy to manage then Quark Xpress,i also like photoshop because you can easily change the images, such as the contrast of the image whereas you can not in Quark Xpress.

This barcode shows the price of the magazine, as well as the website address.

Within the first picture of the production of my magazine i have a barcode, a banner, a main image and the masthead.

In this picture i have added some headlines, a pull quote, the date and issue number. So far the magazine is following conventions of a magazine front cover.

I have changed the masthead, i feel that it stands out alot more and looks much more pofetionnal, i have also made the pull quote stand out more and i changed the banner and moved the main image.

These further altercations that have been  made, look as if it  is more professional and that the main aspects stands out.  It follows conventions of a magazine, the colours i have picked and the house style look very appealing, especially loud and bold.

This is where my production of my magazine changed drasticuly, i decided that the red background had to go so witha new model i have managed to take a picture that follows conventions of a magazine cover, it is conventional to have a white background.

Final alterations to masthead

Due to the background of my main image being red the colours of my original mast head did not stand out and look good in front of red, therefore i have changed the masthead to a chrome look, i feel that it suggests wealth and excitement.

I then decided to go for a more simple look that was more simplified than the previous one and hopefully it looks reconcilable and is very easy to read.  It also stands out from the red background.

From this design i altered to look like this, i felt that one the main headlines stood out just as much as the mast head did, therefore by adding a gradient it looked bolder and therefore stood out from the rest of the page.

 

Mock ups

Magazine front coverAfter i made my first mock up, i was told some  improvements that i could have of made, such as there was no  puff or slogan, so i added them were i might have of put them.

Magazine
contents page

Double Page Spread Mock Up

Editing the main image

I had originally chosen this image to edit:

By using photoshop i edited this image, i airbrushed the skin to make it have a pofetional model look.

I also removed the models hair frizz to make the model look neater, i wanted the image to look as pofetional as possible so that the magazine would follow with this element.

I also used diffrent layers to help me create my final image.

 

My final image i have chosen is this image, i have chosen this one because it is an image that suggests that she has had a photo shoot done for the model, this suggests that the magazine will be more personal towards this 'artist'.

The image itself suggests that there is a relationship between the model and the viewer, this is because of the direct mode of address and the viewer can feel that she is looking directly at them.

However ihave decided to go witha nouther image as i do not feel that the background is best suited for my target market, and it is not a colour that my market would find appealing.



Photo Shoot

For the front page of my magazine i needed a photo, i chose a model that i thought was best for my magazine.  Maria is aged 17 and this meant the  audience could relate to the magazine because they are of the similar age.  The audience will also know that the magazine will be targeted at their generation and they would find this more appealing to buy.

These are a few of the photos that i had taken for my main image.

The red background is a bold colour and the model stands out from it. Red is a very dominate colour that can easily attract attention and it connotes danger, this suggests that my magazine is cutting edge and the magazine will be very eye catching information that is vitally important to buy/read.

 Black is a strong colour that can commonly be viewed as negative colour, however it is bold and contrasts against light colours, therefore sell lines and other aspects of a magazine could easily be designed to stand out from the dark background and be eye catching towards the audience.

I chose the model Hannah to wear a black top, this i because i wanted her face to stand out more than anything else. This could suggest that the article that features her will be more about herself and more personal, this could attract and purchase the audience to purchase the magazine. 

Misfits analyse representation

This is a a picture of a TV programme, i have looked at the representation of the characters and the setting of background. Representaion refers to the construction in any medium of aspects of 'reality' such as people, places, objects,events, cultural identities and other abstract concepts.