prelim task: Audience research

We had to do our own audience research e.g. quantitative. I made my own survey with 20 questions and sent it too 21 of my contacts, and they were kind enough to respond and fill out the forms. Some of the questions answered was too do with fashion magazine and personal interest such as age, gender, if they read fashion magazines etc.
Below is analyse of the questions i asked them, this made me realise what my audience are interested in, and what i should do to produce a top quality fashion magazine. The answers are put into pie charts as it easier for me too see the end result.

                                                                             

Age group

Above is a survey i did too ask my audience age and gender. From this i can tell my audience are mostly girls who are 16 year old that like too read fashion magazine. I can also tell boys too read fashion magazine but not as much as girls, so my fashion magazine would have to tick the category of both gender, boys and girls.

Prelims Task- Fashion Photography Post

PRELIM TASK- Fashion Photography Post

Our task for this week was to go online and search for examples of fashion photography, and annotate them on...

-Lighting

-Colour

-Location

-Narrative

-Connotations

-Pose

Below is my example for Fashion Photography post...

Prelim task: Research Rationale

The research I will be doing for the fashion magazine would be helpful to design my magazine, as I would be getting an audience and market research. I have a wide access to range of different target audience such as girls from 13-16, as they are closer to my age group and attend the school where I go to currently. The school I attend also has a college which the age group is 16-18, I can ask them as they are older and know a bit more about the fashion industry. This will help me to gather information in what they look for in a fashion magazine and what influences them to purchase one.

I will be holding many types of research such as quantitative and qualitative, to help me plan my magazine front cover and content page. For the quantitative I will collect information that can be measured and written down with numbers, e.g. how many magazine readers there are. For the Qualitative I will gather information that cannot be measured, e.g. the audience personal interest and reactions. I will put together a mini survey and see what peoples interest are in fashion magazine, this data would help me gather enough information on what people prefer on a fashion magazine. 

To produce my research I will do a survey which will have many questions on it, this would either be filmed, if we have their consent or written on a paper if they do not agree with the video idea. This will then help me to receive a feedback from the target audience and create a visual image of what I roughly want on my fashion magazine. In one of my research I would have a focus group with many people, and interview them. I would show them a mood-board of different types of magazines and have their personal opinions on what they like and don't like in a fashion magazine. This will help me out on the layout of the magazine, as I would have different feedback from my target audience. 

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.