Magazine practical task research and planning

Research

1) Use Google to research potential magazines that you could use as your brand/design for this project. Create a shortlist of three potential magazines and embed an example front cover from each one. We recommend looking at lifestyle magazines or a similar genre as these are more achievable to re-create.

  

2) Choose one of the three magazine brands to use for your project e.g GQ, Vogue or The Gentlewoman. Then find three different front covers for your chosen magazine and embed them in your blogpost. Analyse the fonts, colours and typical design. What is the language or writing style? How are the cover lines written? What camera shot is generally used for the cover image? You need to become an expert in the design and construction of this magazine and its branding.

  

Cosmopolitan uses a mixture of fonts throughout the magazine covers but the cosmopolitan logo stays consistent throughout for recognisability. The various fonts draws the readers attention to specific aspects of the cover. The colour of the background is used to compliment the model's outfit or contrasts in order to make them stand out more. Most of the shots are mid shots to effectively show the model's outfit. 

Photoshoot

Date: 09/05/23

Time: 11:58am

Location: Photography room

Model: Myself

Publication to blog and evaluation

I think I have succeeded in the brief and that my magazine cover looks similar to other issues of Cosmopolitan. It looks professional and has aspects of existing Cosmopolitan magazine covers. If I could do this assignment again I would have preferred to have more experience using Photoshop as I hadn't used it prior to this assignment.