Monday, 15 November 2010

Designing a magazine front cover

My initial ideas are:
  • Soap magazine
  • Car magazine
  • Wildlife or garden magazine
  • Golf magazine.
I've chosen these ideas as a starting point as I want to do some research into the different topics. I also wanted to keep it broad as I want to stay away from the typical choice of a teen mag that has a target audience for my age; my reason for doing this is that my specific perceptions of certain aspects may not be appropriate for a target audience.

The different topics generally have a few magazines out already. I have researched some online:
  • Soap magazines
    • Soaplife, inside soap
  • Car magazines
    • What car, Classic car, Top Gear magazine, Auto Express
  • Wildlife magazines
    • National Geographic, Countryfile, Wildlife, Bird Watching, British Birds
  • Golf magazines
    • Golf Monthly, Bunkered, Today's Golfer, Golf World, Women and Golf
I think that possibly a car magazine is one that is one that I wouldn't do very well; because I know very little and also have little interest in the subject. My initial thoughts of doing a car magazine is because it would have a very strong front cover and look visually exciting; however, with very little knowledge of the subject, I don't think the text and language would be very strong.

1 comment:

  1. OK Bethan, so you're next move should be to decide on a magazine genre and begin to analyse a range of exisitng product. Then you should carefully consider who you perceive the target audimce to be and why...

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