Brief Three; research of front cover: Hello magazine

 

HELLO MAGAZINE

Brand identity: red logo, white font. hello in big, bold, sans serif font. Natalie in red dress, red bar at bottom. Everything is in rectangles, masthead in box, photos, text at the bottom on a rectagular bar.

Sympathy card makes people want to read the story - 'we were told only one twin would make it'.

'Time to celebrate for Kate' - makes people want to read on without telling them too, want to find why she is celebrating.

Aimed towards women: 2 stories on babies, story on marriage, story about the duchess.

RESEARCH: Fonts

 MASTHEAD FONTS:

TAGLINE FONTS:

Research: front cover ideas

 COLOUR IDEAS:

BABY BLUE

GRAPE

SAGE
BABY PINK
WHITE
LILAC
PISTACHIO

COLOUR THEME IDEAS:

Initial response to briefs 3 and 4

 Brief Three:

ideas:

NAME: deep

logo: a diver

tagline: a deeper dive into real lives

Gaming stories - twitch, Minecraft. ‘Is Minecraft corrupting our brains’. 

Travel section – best places/ stories about different places/hotels - bad holidays 

Young Lives: Story about young mums – how they cope, finance, relationships. using them for 'clout' online, 'are babies just an accesssory. interview mum - having a baby so young contrasted with 'normal'

Stories about jobs- good salaries, bad treatment, customer relations etc...

F1 - sports section - the downfall of ferrari

Identity: sexuality, gender

colour themes: lilac, pistachio green, sage, navy blue, light pink

Navigation bar + :

Gaming | Travel | Young Lives | Identity | Jobs | Sports

FRONT COVER IDEAS::

Brief Four:

ideas: 

songs: for memories, screensaver, slow down

for memories: old videos playing of a relationship, man singing the song - relationship broke down but he's thankful it happened

screensaver: shes waiting too long, keeps telling him to wait, 'to a screensaver' - flips to her as his screensaver - no new notifications

Research: Conventions of a front cover

 

The masthead on this magazine is quite typical as it stretches across the entire page, however it is different to the norm as it touches the top of the page.

The background is a gradient which contrasts the usual solid one colour background.

Colour theme - black, white and pink.

The headline's are in a bold font, and the standfirst is in the same font however not bold. All of the text on the front cover is sans-serif.

my magazine front cover

 

Photography Task

 

This is a long shot, it shows her whole body which helps get a better idea of her playful pose and face.

This is a medium shot, it shows her from about waist up. You can see her arms and facial expression pretty clearly.

This is a close up, it clearly shows her smile and also in her eyes you can see it is a real smile and not a forced emotion.

Fun with Fonts

 This font looks like something that would be used for the title of a children's story, and is quite a childish looking font.

This font looks like it would be used for the title of a love film. It is cursive and looks quite a mature font.

This font looks like it would be used for the title of a horror book/film. It looks quite creepy and also quite paranormal.

Cultural context in the media

 Cultural Context:

There is clear cultural context in this poster. It is advertising the Japanese Grand Prix, and you can see the Japanese flag, as well as Mount Fuji, a Cherry Blossom tree and 'Hoto Fudo' (which is the building in front of Mount Fuji), which are all Traditional symbols of Japan as a country. The colour of the writing is also a red which is typically related to Japan. 

   

Historical context in the Media

Historical context:

In this poster, Historical context is clearly used. There are old Ferrari Formula 1 drivers and some of the old cars used to advertise for the 2019 Monza Grand Prix (Ferrari's home race). The poster uses a sans serif font, which is more modern, however, the way it is quite a square blocky font still means it has the basic feel about it that old posters would have used if there wasn't a lot of money to print them. The poster is also done in pop art, which was big in the 1950's, that was also the same time F1 began and Ferrari started racing in it, so there is also the historical link there. There is also some cultural context, as this poster is in Red, Green and White, which are the colours of the Italian flag, and the poster is for the Italian Grand Prix. Ferrari is also an Italian team. Also the poster is majoritivley red, which is both the main ferrari colour and also the main colour in the F1 logo.

First elements 11 practical

 

In this practical, I learnt the basics of how to use Adobe elements 11, including how to crop and change the light levels of an image, and also how to add images to pages and add text and shapes etc..