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Prelim Task: Statement of Intent

On the cover of my fashion magazine, I will be attempting to create it based on the conventions of Teen Vogue. I will test many different camera angles and shots such as close up, low angle shots, a full body shot and other various ones. I have decided to do a full body shot because I believe that the model as well as the clothes that they are wearing are the most important thing to see due to it being a fashion magazine. This would allow the reader to see what kind of fashion magazine this would be. I have also taken into consideration the target audience of 14-18 year old, because of that I will be using a model that fits the age range. My model will be wearing casual clothes to represent that the magazine is casual summer wear. I have also decided to take my main image in the recording studio because I feel like it has a casual element to it as well as good lighting for my cover to be shot in. Overall, I would like for my magazine to represent that style and beauty is something to b

Prelim Task: Evaluation

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? In this project, I have had to look at different fashion magazine like Teen Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle and many other magazines. My magazine definitely challenges the conventions of a fashion magazine due to the model I have decided to use. The model I have used is wearing a hijab which automatically subverts the conventions of the magazine because it is not common for a magazine to use women wearing a religious or traditional piece of clothing such as a hijab. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluating stages? In this project, I have used a wide range of old and new media technologies to produce the final product. I used a Nikon camera to take a picture of my shot list, flat plan as well as taking a practice and final shot of my final model. I also used Adobe Photoshop to play with the different tools such as

Final magazine product

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Prelim Task: Reader Profile

This is Rhianna.  She is a 15 year old studying for her GCSEs at NMBEC. Her favourite colour is purple because she believes that it reflects her calm personality and her favourite thing to do in her free time is to go shopping with friends or family. The genre of music that she prefers to listen to is soul and her go to musical artist is Xxxtentacion. In school, her favourite subject is Drama and her last is Religious Studies. She loves drama because it gives her a way to express creativity through passion easily with actions as well as emotions.She doesn't usually read magazines,  but the one that she would choose to read is Teen Vogue. This kind of information would be very useful for constructing my magazine because this will give me an idea of what kind of style my target audience is mostly interested in.

Prelim Task: Shot list

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Prelim Task: Fashion photography analysis

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Prelim Task: Typography

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During my market research, I have noticed that most of the fashion magazines I came across have a very simple font for their title. There is also not too many colours clashing with the masthead.The masthead of the magazines are usually bold, in serif font and usually tend to use the colours pink or black in them. Occasionally, they would use red white and blue also to make the masthead stand out more.