Magazine Website.

By using 123REG.COM I found that if my magazine was a real I could actually use the website domain www.popmag.co.uk as its available to use.

Front Cover.

Finished version

Making of the magazine front cover.

Making the plug for the front cover:

Making the front cover:

I Thought that the photograph I was originally using at the bottom would be good as my main image however i quickly changed my mind and retook my photographs.

Ive changed the picture to light pink as it looks more girly, attracting my intended audience and it also helps it look less plain.

I edited her eyes, teeth and hair to make her look better and make the picture near the bottom smaller as I think this makes her look much better.

Photographs

Some of the photographs I have taken:

google mock ups

This is my favourite mock up design and is the one i'm going to base my actual magazine on, this is because I think that it looks the most visually attractive, and it looks like the one I, personally, would be most likely to purchase myself. Although i have used the same colour schemes throughout them all i think that the colours look best in this order and the content is the best.

Masthead Design Ideas

I created a few masthead designs but ruled them all out for being either too plain or thinking they wouldn't stand out well enough on the photographs. So i decided to create another masthead idea.

This was the masthead I designed last, I had to think about the colours being bright so that it would appeal to a pop magazine but it also needing to stand out, I really like the outcome.

The Name Of My Magazine.

Out of all of my ideas I decided to use POP as my magazine name, I decided to use this because its short, snappy and to the point. Everyone could really easily tell what the magazine is about whereas if i used the name Glam buyers may think that its about fashion.

The Price Of My Magazine

I have decided to price my monthly pop magazine at £3.50 a month, I have priced it at this as the audience are mainly younger which means they will not be able to afford it if it was any more expensive. However this does mean that I have had to ignore the amount people said they would be willing to pay for the magazine - on the survey on survey monkey - as what people said they would pay was too low and I wouldn't be able to actually afford to produce it selling it at that price. I am going to price it £1 cheaper for the first magazine, as it is the opening one, to encourage people to buy it.

Magazine audience and research data.

I have created a survey about pop music using the website Survey Monkey as research for my magazine, to get the survey out I posted the link ( https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/D5QDR85) to some social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter asking POP music fans to carry it out.

From doing this survey I found out that the majority of my audience are females aged around 13-16 who are students at school or college. I gave a list of POP artists and bands and i asked which one they preferred and the most people who took the survey liked the bands particularly 5 seconds of summer. I found out that most of my audience listen to music through MP3 downloads, this means that I should probably include a free music download in my magazine however most of my audience would rather have a free CD with their magazine rather than make up or a cute pen and notebook. I also found out that ....50% of the people who took my survey said that they sometimes read about music online so I should probably include a website so that I could include somewhere that my audience can read about music online.




Survey results

Music genre images.

Indie:

Rock:

R&B:

Dance:

Classical:

Folk:

Pop:

LIIAR analysis of We Love Pop - Front cover, Contents page and Doublepage spread.

We Love Pop

Media language

Front Cover

Cover page

Double page spread

Institution

We love pop is published by Egmont UK which is the UK branch of the company Egmont Group and is one of the largest publishing companies in the UK, they are a company who want to encourage more children to read. Their audience is children and teens of all ages, Egmont UK publish over 1 million books and magazines a month which are available worldwide, not just in the UK. Some of the magazines they publish include 'We Love Pop, Toxic and Go Girl' which are aimed at young females. For the magazine We Love Pop they have also created a website so that people can access it online.

Ideology
We love pop, like most pop magazines are optimistically happy all the time, using bright colours and very cheerful pictures. In their articles and double spread pages they use a lot of different pictures rather than wording as its aimed at a more immature audience and it appeals more to this audience like this. Also because of their magazine audience they place a lot in the content that a younger audience would like for example fashion, younger artists and posters.

Audience for this magazine
We love pop is a monthly pop magazine aimed mainly at 13-16 year old females, its very bright as this will attract a young audience. Because its aimed at an younger audience the price cannot be too high as they may not be able to afford to buy it if its anymore however because its weekly they can make the price slightly higher, this means they have priced it moderately at £2.99.

Representation
The people on the front of the magazine are posing for the camera in a very fun loving, jokey, playful. This is done so they look visually attractive, this helps the magazine appeal to a younger audience as its deliberately portrayed to look full of energy and exciting.