Flat plans - Double page spread

This is the design for my double page spread, this is more for the girls that will be reading it, it is going to be an interview/Question and answers with a popular boy band that all girls love, so I am writing a double page spread about them, my front cover will be an image of the main singer, then the band image will be seen on this, my double page spread. I am using the idea of having a coloured box around each question so it not only makes it clear where it is but also to show that it is the most important thing about it. I am using the idea of each band member answer the question with their own personal thoughts, I think this is a good idea so that the fans can have a bit more 'insight' into their private lives, a young girl would love the opportunity for this to happen. Also in my double page spread there will be chances for the fans to meet the band and win tickets to go see them on their tour live in concert.
The reason my magazine will appeal to young girls is that it's going to use a lot of stars and hearts and very friendly 'girly' shapes, also the colours, red, pinks, blues and as well as that the images, my images will be appropriate and the articles, they will be interesting and what the girls want to read for example, every girl loves to read the latest gossip on a certain band or artist and if this band is fresh from a break then they're going to want to know what they've been doing since having that break.

Flat plans - Contents page.

This is the design for my contents page, again I have taken ideas from various other magazines, that I feel will fit in with my genre. I have divided my contents page into sections, I felt this idea made things more clear and sectioned off, relevant reality with fun, spare time reading, which include games and word searches.I have again carried on my star theme onto my contents page, I have used it in my 'O' as it doesn't produce a big change towards the word. The colour scheme will again be, pinks, purples, light blues and whites, I will produce a white background with coloured fonts for the titles of each section, but I will be using black for all other text as I think this is the most appropriate colour that will draw in someones attention.

I have made the fans more involved in this article, so that the reader can see it has also got other involvement rather than just the interviewers questions, I have a section in which the fans can have their own question and answer.

Flat plans - Front cover

This is my design for my front cover of my magazine, my genre is pop, so I've made it fairly child like but also added a bit of a mature approach towards it. Young girls idolise older teenage girls, so my magazine will carry this theme, but nothing too over the top. I have taken ideas from various other pop magazines so that I can relate my magazine and also make it appealing to the audience. I am going to use a large image of one person that is, smiley, looking at the camera, so that it is not threatening towards the reader, my image will also be making eye contact so that it will draw the reader in.

My colour scheme will be, 'girlie' colours, for example, pinks, purples, whites and light blues, I will carry this colour scheme throughout the magazine itself.

The title of my magazine 'POP STAR' has its own personal theme to it, which again will be carried on throughout, this is the 'A' being produced as a star, this will not be the same letter in all cases. I chose this as my title because it is not only a relevant title, but is also going to be really eye-catching and friendly. My issue is going to have a theme and that them is going to be love, the reason I have chosen this is because it is going to be published around Valentine's day, so most things will be related to love, the first noticeable relevance seen will be the '200' I will be using hearts in place of my '0' and have all my cover stories related to love and relationships. I have filled the front cover up as much as I feel it will be needed without going too over the top and making it look like a children's magazine as oppose to a young adults. I have included bands/people I believe they will be interested in, the same kind of bands that are around now, plus obviously make belief people.

Fonts

For my magazine, the type of font I will be using, will be from a website called; http://www.dafont.com/ there is a variety of fonts on there so finding the correct one will be fairly easy as they are put into categories so there will only be a few that will be relevant for my style of magazine. A font that I feel would not be ideal for my style of magazine would be will be something under the heading of 'Techno' within this label of fonts their main theme is along the lines of blunt edge, digital text, here is an example of this

I think this style of font would be used as the title of a computer, or boys magazine. The style of font I am using comes under a category of cartoon, it's fairly child like, but fits with my genre perfectly, here is the text I will be using for my magazine;

Out of these 2 style fonts of 'Cheri' the one I am going to use is the first with the clear background, I prefer this one because it's more friendly with it's curved edges andletters close together, the one with the dark background I don't feel is as friendly as the edges are blunt and sharp and the letters are seperated so there's not really a 'together-ness' that makes the reader feel involved. I also felt that it was quite similar to that of the 'Camp Rock' title, quite curvy and not too blunt edged, which wouldn't make people look and think twice about buying it, it's very customer friendly.

Double Page Spread analysing

This double page spread contains a lot of images, the main image is of the Jonas Brothers, which takes up the whole of the whole of the second page. This could be viewed in many ways, the most obvious being that the thing that attracts most of their fans is their looks, alot of female fans follow them for their looks, so having a large image will make the girl more interested.

From the colours you can guess that this magazine is for girls with use of the pink, red, blue and yellow. It also indicates the target audience is towards girls because in the bottom right hand corner it has girls asking questions with images. The article asks the Jonas brothers various questions to do with them that the magazine thinks the reader would like to hear. The text is in black which makes it stand out, and the titles of the questions is in red which indicates that their important to read. The columns in this article are shown clearly and makes it easier to read, there are also various pictures around the columns showing the band at what they do best, music. It has a main picture of the Jonas brothers to show what the article is about.

Contents Page analysing

The contents plan I have chosen to analyse is from the girl magazine 'MIZZ'. The reason I chose to analyse this magazine is because, Top of the Pops do not use contents pages in their magazines. I felt MIZZ was the most relevant magazine after that, as it still talks about the same things that I am going to be talking about in my magazine. The colour scheme is more than that of a front cover, on the contents page there is around 8 different colours; black, red, green, pink, purple, dark green, orange and white. I think the use of different colours makes it a lot more interesting and more eye catching, I think these colours are used as it's more of a girls magazine. Within the contents page there is limited pictures but are all relevant to a girl for example; Zac Efron and fashion.

The contents list has been categorised into 6 groups. This makes the layout of the magazine look more organised and clear. For each subheading, they have used a contrast of coloured backgrounds with white writing to allow it to stand out.

There are images with page numbers on the corner of them. This convention is used to show the reader what will be included in the magazine, without giving much away. This will therefore cause the reader to be curious about what the image is about.