RESEARCH WORK- AS Foundation portfolio

RESEARCH WORK

GENRE;                              

After looking at and researching about all the genres i chose to make a womens Fashion magazine for my foundation portfolio

REASON I CHOSE THIS;
Having a vast interest in the world of art and fashion and an immense love for discovering new trends, fashion magazines were my personal favourites ever since i knew how to read. So i wanted to utilize this opportunity to do what i absolutely love.

TARGET AUDIENCE;
The content of the magazine will mainly focus on the latest fashion trends, revolving around teens and tweens and deal with the fashion emergencies faced by them in daily life

After all the research i had to get started with my magazine, the first thing that had to be done was the cover, since i had no experience about designing a mag cover, so i started going through the cover pages of the leading womens fashion magazines and  found out some of the basic essentials and the must haves of a cover page

CODES AND CONVENTIONS;
A magazine cover is filled with connotative codes, that reveals the nature of the magazine and help audience perceive the message delivered by the magazine the way the media producer wants the audience to get it

• The cover page mostly features a famous celebrity or a known personality from the fashion industry and maximum focus is on it e.g blurred background or an outfit that stands out.
• The cover person communicates with the audience through their expressions and poses e.g direct eye contact while posing increases the connection also portrays confidence, poses represent elegance, happiness, feminity,luxury etc
• The colours used are according to the target audience i.e feminine colours for womens fashion magazines e.g hints of purple, pink and red in the magazines on the right.
• The fonts and colours used are easily readable and eye catching
• A magazine cover remains incomplete without the title, issue date, price and a barcode