Research and planning:textual analysis of bliss magazine front cover.

I have chose to analyse the connotations of the cover of bliss magazine , this help me with creating and producing my student magazine b. Bliss is a magazine aimed at teenager girls and this shown through the main colours that are used in the cover; pink yellow and light blue. Not only are the colours very feminine they are also very bright and attractive colours which connote a sense of summer and are eye catching. the masthead is big and bright yellow and is covering a bit of the central image showing the masthead is significant. the masthead is the biggest size on the whole cover, followed by Leona lewis's name who is on the cover and this is to grab the attention of the reader. the central image is a eye level , medium close up on Leona Lewis who is a well known celebrity so this gives value to the magazine. the image of her is light and bright and this matches the other colours on the front cover and also in the image she is smiling and this connotes a friendly atmosphere and this will appeal to the teenage girls , who are their target audience.
this magazine has fashion cover lines that also include images of clothes for the summer this is clearly aimed at a young and female readers and this is reinforced by having more coverlines of male celebrities that most girls find attractive and this also gives value to the magazine. under the masthead it shows the date and the price for the magazine and this is something all magazines do and this informs the audience about the information they need to compete with other magazines by showing how cheaper they magazine is compared to the competition.

introduction to coursework

Introduction to brief

As part of my as media coursework, I will have to produce the front cover of a new college music magazine. The brief also requires me to create a contents page and a double page feature spread of a new music magazine. I have created this blog in order to record my research, planning and evaluation, which will hopefully help me, produce successful magazine.

Action plan for preliminary task
the preliminary task is to create and produce a front cover  and contents page for a student magazine. 

Our first task is to create and set up a blog where I will put up an action plan. I will also have to a few magazines and analyse how they target their audience and I will post what I find out on the blog and this will all have to be done by week one.

For week two I will have to complete textual analysis of college magazines and post my findings on the blog. Research of target audience and review findings and ill also begin to take photos for my own magazine.

For week three I will have to produce a mock-up of front cover and contents page and also begin to design front cover and contents page.

On week four I will need to post final front cover and contents page on blog and then by week five I’ll need to complete and post my evaluation on the blog and the final deadline for the this task is friday 6th of january