Prelim task- moodboard

PRELIM TASK- moodboard of the fonts

This lesson we have been asked to create a moodboard of the different fonts magazines editors use on their front page of a fashion magazine. Later on we had to discuss the similarities 

and differences magazines editors use as their fonts.

Similarities- 

Capital letters- most fonts are uppercase, this is to attract the readers into buying their magazines and to show who's magazine company it belongs too.
Bold fonts- Nearly every magazine has their masthead written in bold, this is to show the darkened text and to help emphasised the font.
Colour- the fonts are coloured controlled, meaning they have one feature colour with the use of black and white, so it balance it out.

Differences-

Lower case- Two fonts that I have choses in the moodboard are lowercase, they may be different from the rest as they may have a different house style. 

Italic- Some fonts have the style italic, chosen to be their masthead to distinguish certain words from the others within the text.

Prelims task- deconstruction of fashion magazines

PRELIM TASK- Deconstruction of fashion magazines

We were asked asked to deconstruct a front cover and a contents page of a fashion magazine labelling the conventions and commenting on the choices made. As I was doing this task I had to think of many things such as who may the target audience be, how might each convention draw in the audience? Etc…

Below is the front cover and contest page I deconstructed. 

PRELIM TASK: Introduction

The internet has bought you here, welcome to my blog.
My name is Aleena Khan and I'm in year 10, currently studying Media Study for GCSEs. I thought I would choose media as it’s something I would find interesting and not be bored of it. And I was right once again, media is something that I’m quite passionate about right now and so far I’m enjoying it.

We have been asked to design a quality fashion magazine aimed at 14-18 years old, as part of our coursework. When we were told we had to design a fashion magazine, I was feeling very excited about it, as its something different from what I've done in the past. Designing a magazine is completely new to me so I'll have fun making it as a whole, however when designing a magazine I will struggle with certain things such as making sure I'm using the right font for the front cover, Photoshop would be the biggest difficulties in my opinion as i haven't used it before but i would like to challenge myself.
As I'm doing this task I'm hoping to gain many variety of skills and achieve a good quality fashion magazine, that will draw my target audience in. I’m hoping that my magazine front cover will meet every criteria in the GCSEs grade boundaries, and be successful in its own way.