Planning and Design Task

Decide on a suitable title for your magazine. It needs to be one that is genre appropriate.

Pick the fonts you want to use in your magazine.

Choose a colour palette.

Decide who your cover star will be or decide what your cover image will be.

Plan the clothes, make up and mise en scene of your photos.

Take photos at home or prepare to take them in lessons.

Begin to draft your magazine cover and contents page. You can do this initially without images. Look at your research examples for help and idea with layouts.

DEADLINE: You have until June 6th to complete these tasks

Your Reader Likes....

Media Institutions use Market Research to guide them to make their magazine appeal to their Target Audience. Knowing what your readers like is key to being able to design a product that will attract customers and in turn generate profit.

Market Research Task

Who is your typical reader? Create a target audience profile page looking at all the demographics of a typical reader.

Use Survey Monkey to help you construct a questionnaire. Invite people to answer your questionnaire and then analyse the data. Present your findings with a commentary showing what you have learnt about your target audience. Explain how this will impact on your planning decisions for your magazine project.