Research and Design Example by Martha Causier

Draft Design Example by Hannah Franks

Hannah Franks' work is an example of a professional looking piece of work. This is her draft product. It is successful because she has used the conventions intelligently to suit her magazine genre and target audience perfectly.
This piece of work also highlights how important colour and font choice are in the design process. All three of these products link together as they are following an in-house style. In other words, it is easy to see how all the pages come from the same magazine. Well done Hannah!

Magazine Front Cover

Contents Page

Double Page Spread

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.

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Magazine Research Schedule

Kerrang Contents Page follows certain design conventions to appeal to the heavy rock fan. Comment on the language, images, font and language used to appeal to the target audience.

Task A Deconstruct a front cover. Label the conventions and explain how they are used to match the genre and suit the target audience. Deconstruct a double-page spread. Deconstruct a contents page. Task B Consider the colour palette being used by the magazine and comment on what impact this will have on the target audience. How will this change your design decision when creating your own magazine. Task C Consider the fonts being used. Comment on their design and how they reflect anything about the magazine’s style. Again, how will this change your design decisions.