Explanation of my Moodboards.

On my blog, I have uploaded four different moodboards, one was ‘Celebrities’ I chose this particular one because I thought it would be interesting to maybe use celebrities in my magazine, like a kind of gossip mag, for maybe teens to old aged people. Another one I chose was ‘Hair’ I chose this because I thought it would be fun to do something about hair through the years, for example, if I used this I could maybe put both vintage hairstyles and modern ones, I think this would catch the readers attention if they were looking to do something with their hair. The third one I chose was ‘Vintage Style’, the reason why I decided to make a moodboard on this was because I really like vintage and thought it would be a pretty good idea for a magazine, because it would be more origional, it would also be good for people who wear vintage because they would maybe use it.

The fourth one I made was about ‘Harry Potter’ and this will be the one that I will use, I am choosing this one because I thought it would make a good magazine if it was a really geeky/ nerdy mag made for fans. If this were a real magazine I think it would be good because I think a lot of people who have read the books or watched the films would find this enjoyable.

For my Harry Potter magazine I would maybe need either a dark sort of theme like the orgional writing/theme they use in the films, or it could be called all cheery and have the title as ‘The Quibbler’. I think this would also be good because The Quibbler is a magazine in Harry Potter which is made xenilious lovegood, luna’s dad. I think if it was called the quibbler it would be origional and quirky. Another theme I could use is griffindor or ravenclaws house colours. Griffindor because the issue is about Harry and maybe Ravenclaw because Luna is in that house and her father owns The Quibbler. Also, I think this will be a top of the range magazine because it’s more of a fan thing so there for it would be better if it was quite a classy magazine. 

Evaluation of TV Listening Magazines

Most of them have the headings and prices in the place, I think this is bad because they look almost identical and maybe if they didn’t do this it would set them apart from the other magazines, and make them more appealing. In this task we were told us too chose 3 magazines and write what the different parts of it were, for example, main feature, which is the dominating picture which is supposed to catch the readers attention. After we had done this we had to write a evaluation of what we found. I think that generally the cheapest magazines would look tackier with bright clashing colours, and the more expensive ones would usually have less colours and more matching. Also, in my opinion the dearer one looked a lot better, and more appealing. For the cheapest one I think the audience would mostly be families, because they would just want a magazine so that they could see what on the TV and wouldn’t really care whether or not it looked good, and I think the most expensive one ‘Radio times’ would be more for older, or middle aged people who want to read some gossip. 

My findings from my spreadsheet

From the information from my spreadsheet I managed to find out that most people that completed our survey were between the ages of 13 and 15, and most were female, only a few males participated. Also, according to the spreadsheet all of them go to school without any form of job and most people own a games console. The games that were most popular for games consoles came out as ‘Just Dance’  and ‘Mario Cart’. The most popular radio station was kiss 100, and the favourite DJ was Chris Moyles. The majority of the people who took part visit the cinemas on a regular basis, and the film most of them went to see was ‘Step-Up 3D’. Also, 13 out of the 18 people said they owned a digital TV and almost all the people use facebook.to interact with friends online. 

TV LISTINGS MAGAZINE PROJECT

In class we were asked to design a TV listings Magazine. In this task we designed each of our front covers by choosing a price (posh, average, tacky) and then we would base the design on which type we chose. I chose posh, because I thought my magazine front page did not look tacky and that it actually looked quite expensive compared to some of the already existing magazines I have seen. Such as, Radio times, tv quick and tv choice. Radio Times, was the posh top of the range one and personally I preferred it.

One of the other reasons I chose to design a top of the range magazine was because I actually preferred the kind of style the more expensive magazines have, and actually rather disliked the bright colours on the tacky cheap magazines. I also chose not to put a picture of a soap star on the front because I thought it would look more original if some more unknown programme was on the front.

For my main feature I chose Iwan Rheon because he is in a programme called ‘Misfits’, he is named Simon and this programme is actually a very popular programme for people in my sort of age range, so my target market was more leaned towards teenagers or early twenties then the adults. Iwan Rheon, is also very appealing to my generation, so it would also maybe attract my age range more. For my title I chose to use a basic one so I didn’t take too much attention away from the actual theme of my magazine, so in conclusion to this thought I named it ‘Telly Times’. The background of my design was a blue texture that looked kind of like carpet, I chose it because I thought it suited the rest of my magazine very well, and went well with the picture of Simon. My colour scheme was invented by mainly darker colours like dim reds, faded blues, blacks and greys. Another element I used was too match the style of writing to this theme, I used a kind of rough looking writing.