Media Lesson Overview

Since yesterday, I have been working on my magazine flat plans. I am being extremely detailed and this is helping me think about ways to make my magazine work. For example, initially I was just thinking about one image being on my front cover. However, whilst planning the front page I looked at other magazines and with ‘We Love Pop’ magazine, they included smaller pictures of other things rather than just one. I therefore caught onto this idea and thought it would be good to add this to my flat plan. My front cover flat-plan has been designed and I am currently working on my contents page. To help stick to the conventions of pop magazines yet give my magazine a unique look, I have looked at a variety of pop magazines and used ideas from all of them. For example I concentrated on the facial features of pop artist Miley Cyrus on the 'BillBoard' magazine, and merged it with the pose from the ‘Inked Girls’ magazine. I also started to consider various fonts that I could include when I start actually constructing my magazine. I have been exploring fonts on the website ‘DaFont’.