Aims:

To reflect upon my research to help inform my planning

To plan ideas for my magazine to present to a focus group

For this blog I am going to be focusing on the Mood boards which are going to be relevant to the magazine front cover which I wish to provide.

Firstly, the images above is a collection of the men’s fashion magazines which could give me guidance and ideas as they provide similar correlations to the magazine covers which i am going to make.

For me I chose men’s fashion is it the most relatable to myself and is something which I can work with whilst giving myself the best opportunity to succeed . I also feel as though it is easily relatable to other people in the public, mainly targeted at a young male adult/teen audience.

Hopefully these magazine covers will be able to help influence a magazine cover and further decisions in the future.

This next slide was a mix between men and women lifestyle magazines. I chose to mix both genders so that I am able to gain an understanding of how both gender magazines targeted an audience. I feel as though the men’s lifestyle magazines aren’t as packed as the women’s lifestyle magazines. This means that people that are attracted to women’s lifestyle magazines tend to read some of the cover lines in order to be fully attracted to it, whereas the men’s lifestyle magazines are little more photo focused and less cover line focused meaning the specific target audience become attracted as soon as they see it instead of reading it.

This therefore means that when i am creating my magazine covers I would have to factor in the idea that my target audience wont read as much of my cover lines and rather just look at the front cover so i will have to make it as appealing to the audience as possible.

This next slide is an example of the possible ideas and ways I could set out my mastheads. A common theme that I have noticed is that most of the models heads are either in front or behind the Magazine masthead, this is something I would consider in order to use as much of my model as possible.

I have also noticed that with mastheads there tends to be a certain house style, for example MENS HEALTH magazines are always in red, as well MENS FAHION tend to have the masthead in the top right corner layered one above the other. For me this is something to consider as I would have to use a specific house style in order to make my piece stand out from the rest.

Finally, this last slide is a mix of the different fonts which could be used to attract an audience based on face value. I feel as though something which is different and unique is more likely to stand out from anything too vague. so the more unique and different the better. For example the fonts above.