Colour Scheme Research

When looking at these magazines and their colour schemes I can see that they often contain Black and/or white this is a tone colour in which then they have their main colour in which is bold and stands out from everything else. colours such as red and yellow are bold and are really eye catching where as pinks and lilacs are softer.

When looking at the example magazines I really like the Pink, white, and Black colour scheme , along with the Lilac , black and white. These influences have allowed me to take a look at some schemes I may personally choose.

When Looking at these my favourites are pink , white, black and white , lilac and pink.

Focus group Response

When filming my focus group, I asked relevant questions in which will help me with my decisions, My focus group video helped me to decided a price in which is going to be ‘ £1.99’. I found that many people tend to want to buy the magazine instead of have it as an app, as they have a preference to have the actual item. My general findings from this research was;
That depending on the size and contents of the magazine, would depend on how often my focus group would want it to be issued. When speaking to my focus group I found that they would have a preference to music or fashion freebies things such as vouchers would work well. Also when looking at my focus group I found that people do not tend to share there magazines, in which makes spreading the word harder to do. People are most likely to buy a magazine fortnightly. Also when I asked my focus group how often they buy a music magazine they responded with ‘ that they don’t go out to buy a magazine and only buy on if it catch’s their eye or has a popular artist upon the front cover’. This has helped me understand that my front cover must be a be eye catching this may affect my colour scheme and fonts as it need to stand out from the other magazines on the shelf in which leads me to research the typical magazines of chosen genre to ensure mine is conventional yet eye catching.

My Focus Group

My Questioner for my Focus group

1.How much would you pay for a magazine?

2.Would you pay £1.99 for a magazine?

3.How often would you like the magazine to me issued?

(weekly)         (fortnightly)     (monthly) 

4.How old are you?

5. Where do you shop?

6. What would be your best freebie?

7. What are your interests?

8. Do you share your magazines with anyone? If so who?

9. What would you expect to see upon a Pop magazine ? (Conventions)

10.Would you prefer a app or a magazine from a shop?

Testing Font

As a way to decide upon my Masthead and fonts I decided to create a mood board of fonts. For me when looking at these I think my Masthead should be in one of the following fonts ;

1. Impact
2. Ultra
3. Bangers
4. Arial Blank

For me when looking at these I think my feature story fonts  should be in one of the following fonts ;

1. Geo Sans Light
2. Sue Ellen Francisco
3. Billbo swash CAPS 
4. La Belle Aurore
5. Times New Roman.

Music Videos of my Music Genre

When looking at these pop videos, It helps me to understand the different celebrities that are within my genre and from this I can research the different articles which are featured on music magazines about the celebrities.

My Google Mock Ups

These are my Google mock ups, I found them to be very basic and found that

it is quite hard to figure out and use Photoshop. Being a first time user I think I still have

A lot to learn. Each of my Google mock ups are basic yet each progress from one another.

I found that making a mistake on one allowed me to change and improve on my next.