Rough Sketches and Trials

After coming up with the name for my magazine, I went on to draw some rough sketches of possible layout ideas for the front cover of “Future History”

My target group and audience is in the age range 15-25, this means that I fit the criteria, and because of this it allowed me to decide and have a close into what my target group and audience would want.  Therefore, I planed quite a few different research which allowed for my target group and audience to state what they wanted as well as point to what they didn’t or did like in my own project and real media products. During my research it allowed me to recognize the needs of my precise target group and audience, as the success of the media product provided me with a sign as to whether the target group and audience would liked it, and whether or not it met their needs. Although I tried to make as many techniques for right of entering audience feedback before I had finished each of my products so that if my target group and audience did not like something I would be able to make any changes needed.

For example, during the construction steps of my magazine cover I planed research which my target group and audience could decide which font colouring and style them favoured and without asking them a feedback during the course. Using the Blog I have had the accessibility of teachers to remark on my work, this means that to discuss aspects if my target group and audience did like it or not; although other students providing me with feedback was of great advantage to me, this means that for them fitting my target group and audience range it meant that their needs and wants were completely suited to the criteria of my media products. The use of the remarks part of the blog was very helpful to me than the use of research as it meant that the audience wasn’t maximum value to a mark box answer, as the remark box allowed for the accessibility to state their view and ideas.

From this I decided that the grey version looked better than the black. This is because although the black was quite vivid and electric, the grey version looked more like an actual cable and would fit in with my genre, rock/indie a lot better. As a result of this, I also decided that the colour scheme for my music magazine should be black, white and grey.I then made a quick rough front cover on Photodhop using photos from the internet to give me an idea of the sort of thing my magazine could look like in terms of layout:-

Creating this rough front cover made me realise that for my actual front cover of Future History cable I would also like to use a long shot photo of a band, but obviously one that I have taken myself.  but would layer more headlines over the top for the real thing. Using these ideas I came up with this plan for my front cover.

I then tried creating my masthead on photoshop, using the idea I had from my mind map and some of my sketches to help. I tried using an white colour and a dark grey colour for this as shown below :-