EVALAUTION!!!

Whilst creating this magazine cover, I found myself looking over many established magazines for inspiration: Word-up, young voices, hip-hop. Looking over these magazines gave me an in site as to what direction my magazine should be heading in, how my front cover should look and what essential elements should be included in over to sale to the target audience. With Faith magazine, as a group I believe we all tried to be as original as possible yet still taking into account conventions of real music magazines.

We decided on three main themes for our front covers:
- Jesus is my logo
- Sunday Best
- International Christians
For Jesus is my logo we chose to capture youths jumping in the air looking as though they were having a good time. They were dressed in normally chilled out clothes: Jeans and a t-shirt with the slogans, ‘Jesus is my logo’ and ‘Jesus died for my space in heaven’ blasted across the top in bright colours. Seen as Faith magazine is promoting the gospel scene, we felt it would be a great idea to incorporate our message through fashion trends also. We believe this will be effective seen as youth today are becoming more and more entwined with the fashion world.

The use of bright colours was very important in terms of grabbing the readers’ attention and targeting the right audience. I believe colours play a big part in the successful sale of a magazine. If your front cover looks good and stands out, people will be not be able to resist looking twice. The use of big fonts, bold and italic writing, graphed slogans, and images were also important for attracting our audience.

During the process of constructing the magazine cover, being introduced to photo-shop, a program I have had no previous experience or encounter with before, I found challenging. After being given a tutorial on how to use the program, I still found myself in need of assistance, but being pushed to try and work independently and finally starting too see my front cover come to life, I thought strongly about the power of technology and how much I underestimated it. Technology defiantly plays a big part in the media industry.

If I were to be given the opportunity to make another magazine cover I would take time to properly plan the photo shoot, as I felt that due to limited time our photos were not of the highest standard. I would also dedicate time toward learning how to use Photoshop correctly so that class time could have been 100% devoted towards designing the front cover.

Photo Shoot ( shud have been posted ages ago)

We chose to base our photoshoot onsite, we use corridors, the main hall and other facilties of the college. To add a bit of varitey we chose to shoot some shots in the loccal park. Our aim was to take funfilled fully swagged out pictures to attracted our chosen audience: Young People.

We based our shots on our themes which were:

• Sunday Best
• Jesus is my log
• International Christians
• Christian Swagger

Sunday Best

We got some students to dress up in what they considered to be their best church clothes. For Boys this consisted of trouser, tie, a shirt and jumper. For the girls this was a skirt, blouse and shoes/heels. We tried our best to imcooperate the swagger youth have these days but also the sophistocated look of older teens going to church. The photos were taken on one of the college

Jesus is my logo

We shot these pictures in the park. We captured pareecee and niquita in the process of jumping in the air. The costumes they were wearing were t-shirts with the slogans blasted on them:

'Jesus is my logo' and ' Jesus died for my space in heaven'. In this shoot we tried to just capture youth having fun and still repping their faith.

Over all i enjoyed the photoshoot and i feel we succeded in completing it under an hour but i wish we could have had a bit longer.

Rough draft of magazine..

I made a rough first draft of my magazine cover.

I found it very hard to find inspiration or any ideas for the cover, due to the fact that i had a lot of difficulty of finding a wider range of multicultural people and also, the people that i wished to photograph could not make it in time.

However, i came to a final solution and i decided to use Lousie, Niquita and Pareece for my front cover. 

I took the individual photos of each of them and i set them at an angle on the page. 

I decided to have a purple background and text that was in contrast in order for the text to stand out against the background. 

 The magazine will sell for £2.45

Faith Magazine - Photo Shoot... Blogged today, however meant to be posted ages ago

The photo shoot took roughly about, half an hour to get a good amount of different pictures. 

Our group took a lot of photos around the college grounds, these took place in the food hall, the corridors and Owens Field. 

The photos taken in the food hall, where mostly of Niquita and Pareece. These pictures were of both girls wearing t shirts that either said, "jesus died for myspace in heaven" or "jesus loves me". The pictures that were taken in the food hall were mostly to the emphasis the appearance of the t shirts. A lot of the pictures, were of Niquita and Pareece sitting together and having fun. 

The photos taken outside Owens Fields was mostly of Niquita nd Pareece jumping off a bench to give the impression that they are in mid air. They were also told to smile at the same time.

The photos that were taken in the corridor were mostly in front of a white background, this was done in order to amake the crop of the image much easier once done in photoshop.

I was going to take my own photos, simply because i am doing International Christians and i wish to get multi - cultural people with flags.  

Photo shoot

Our group did two photo shoots as we all had different themes we wanted to explore.

The first photo shoot was more casual and relaxed clothes. Me perecce and Louise were all in photos.

Our locations :-

• dark blue wall
• stair well near window over looking the sky
• white wall
• canteen area
• weavers fields park

The second photo shoot was very dressy and also Sunday best. Me and some other class mates.

Our locations :-

• dark blue wall
• white wall
• window
• stair well

Faith photoshoot ideas (my cover)

My theme for my cover is 'Sunday best' but in a new ligth cause when i think of the solgan sunday best i think . Suited and booted men, women in extreamly cordinated suits and big hats mathcing from head to toe. And teenagers carefully matching thier partents.



But as times have change it isnt always the case anymore. Dressing for church is more enjoyable and also should be respectable. Of course going to church is NOT to look good but if ur dressed and feel confortable you will always beem and no snyde remarks will hinder your personal worship. And since i love fashion this is why i have choosen this theme



My cover layout ideas

1. To have 3 or 4 young people dressed up in thier church clothes, but insted of having the lates handbag or mobile phone they wil have there bibles.


2. 2 young people in propa dressed up, suited and booted church clothes. Then next to them is 2 young people in casual clothes like thier going to college. Headline what is sunday best? or Im still keeping it christian or christian swagga .

The headline and title i want to be orginal and i dont want the front cover to be all over the place i wont it to b simple but not to simple still needs to attract a certain audience.

Faith Magazine.

Music Magazine Practical 

Magazine - Gospel Music:

• Jesus Is My Logo 
  
• Jesus Junkie 
  
• Jesus Loves Me 
  
• Jesus Dies For Myspace In Heaven.

These are sentences that are seen on t-shirts and badges (merchandise). These t-shirts are use to promote the word of God. 

Titles For A Magazine: 

JC

Jesus is my logo 

Gospel Scene 

J. M. L

J4L

Faith. 

Our group came to a final decision and chose FAITH

Frequency:

Monthly

Content:

Advice - Singles, Parents 

Spoken Word

New Gospel Artists - Albums

Fashion- "Jesus died for myspace in heaven" t-shirts 

This is what will be inside the magazine. 

 

Target audience:

youth/teens

Photoshoot: 

Cover 1 - Sunday Best/ Christian Swagger 

Cover 2- International Christian

Cover 3- Jesus Is My Logo 

Cover 4 - Missionary 

Props:

Cover 1 - Bible. Church Background/ pewes - chair

Cover 2 - International Flags. National colours. 

Cover 3- 

Cover 4-