Fortismere 6th form magazine plan

Here is some rough ideas for the magazine from the info i have gathered.
Title:
- Short
- To the point
-Onomatopoeia possibly?
- Easy to say
- Relevant
some ideas:
- ''Hot-Shot''?
- ''Kicker''

Articles/Features:
- Sport
- School info
- Subjects/Clubs
- Music
- Relationship advice
- clothes
- Movies and reviews

Colours:
- Yellow
- Red
- Purple
- Pink

Front cover:
- Sport
- School Teen
- Bright and busy (with writing and pictures)
- Relates to content
- Experimental type font

Frount Cover Analisis

Cosmo Girl

• -Bright, typically feminine use of pink.


• - Smiling celebrity teen idol showing a glamorous sense of happiness


• - Lots of eye catching short bold statements to draw the eye in.


• - Key indication that the magazine provides more than moneys worth with all the infoRmation of whats inside. (very busy)


• - Mature font appealing to the more sophisticqated girl, just like the name.

- Colloquial language to draw attention such as 'hot'.

Kerrang



- Dark background contrasts the bright writing.

Pictures and writing informs what the magazine will contain.

- 'Greatest Gigs' alliteration makes it appealing to read.

- Free magazines entice the reader to buy the magazine.

- The well-known rocker on the front shows enjoyment and deep involvement with music, linking to what properties the magazine embodies.

Surveys

My Media Magazine Survey went as follows after i asked 40 people, 20 male and 20 female:

Male

Imagine your school brought out a new magazine. What would most interest you in it?

Computer Games:2

Sport:6

Relationship advice:4

School information\dates:4

New subjects/clubs:2

Music:2

Favorite Colours

Female

Most Interested in:

Make-up/clothes:2

Relationship advice:4

Music:4

School information:2

Movies:4

Subjects/clubs:4

Favorite Colours:

Magazine Profile Plan

Name: Alex
Age: 13-15
Gender: M/F
Intrests: Friends, sports, music
Music: Pop

- Likes bright colours and informative/intresting pictures
- Likes real life stories
- Embarrising stories

Magazine Profiling

Chart to help identify social classes in the media:

Social Grade Social status

A Upper middle class

B middle Class

C1 Lower Middle Class

C2 Skilled Working Class

D Working Class

E Lowest Level of Subsistence

Beforea magazine is made, a profile is created of whom the magazine would most likely appeal to.

Here are some examples:

Glamour
Age: 18-44, Average age 23
85% singe, 83% ABC 1
Average PI: £21,500
34% do not visit any other female website
Glamour.com mobile

Certain magazines have taken great care and detail on their profiles. From area of inhabitants (for example Bridesmagazine has an audience in SE london) to the ceareal they eat.

GQ
Profile
Average age: 30
97% male
85% ABC1
Average PI: £36,250

As you can see their is a great difference between the two magazines.

Here are some examples of Media costing:

VOUGE

Traffic
33 million page impressions per month
1.2 million unique users per month

Rate card
Banners - £35 cpm
Skyscrapers - £40 cpm
Rich Media - £45 cpm
Email sponsorship from - £65 cpm
Email List Purchase - £250 cpm
Promotion - From £5k
Sponsorship - POA

TRAVELLER

Traffic
2.2 million page impressions per month
270,000 unique users per month
60,000 PDA users

Info was provided by media packs