Trajanus Bricks (Drafting and planning)

After some consideration i had to decide what font i needed to stick to for my masthead, i went with Trajanus Bricks as it is not to fancy but is still unique. I believe different fonts attract different groups of people, but i believe this font has No particular audience. ' I would say that 'Trajanus Bricks' has a historic 'medieval' look to it but that's relevant for a magazine about a city with a long historic past.

Potential Magazine Mastheads with Talk Of The Town (Drafting and Planning)

What i like about XXL Contents-page (Research into similar products)

Cover page draft (drafting and panning)

Here is a review of the sort of cover page i will go for, the artists picture as cover stars, as well as all the headings are all linked to Birmingham. Obviously the headlines will be more unique and creating in future; as well as the font which i publish types of fonts that i would go for.

Potential Magazine Headlines (Drafting and Planning)

Here i have included the sort of headings i would go for on my next magazine draft. The headings are obviously Birmingham orientated and include things from my research that inspired my post that fully focused on Birmingham.That is why i include headlines that feature Black Sabbath,second city derby and Walk of stars (Chicago is mentioned as it is a twin city).

Magazine cover-page styles (Research into similar products)

Magazine Components ( Research into similar products)

Survey monkey Quiz 1 distribution (Target Audience)

Blogger Tracker and response (Organisation)

This tracker had shown me that i need to post more on organisation and that is exactly what i have done, i need to post more general though as i am behind majority of the class.

Brummagem magazine (Research into similar products)

Brummagem is a local regional magazine for Birmingham, likewise to my upcoming magazine.         I was going to give my magazine this name before i found out about this magazine.

It is authored by Carl Chinn and has a unique cover-page with historic photos from the past of the cities people or buildings,because of the magazines unusual cover-page with 3 large pictures dominating space this makes me realise that i don't have to follow the traditional style magazines use; for example the magazines headings for the pictures are a lot smaller than most magazines will display there's. The pictures displayed on the cover-pages are always greyscale and i cant see what is inside the magazine but the cover-page is there to give you ideas and judging by Brummagems cover-page i believe the magazine have more ancient pictures, this magazine is predominantly focused on the past and doesn't really focus on current topics from what i have seen.

My magazine ( Talk Of The Town) will be opposite in that will mainly focus on the present and future but  Brummagems format does influence me to do my own type of cover-page and not carry out the traditional way.

Survey monkey preview (Target audience)

I already have learnt through the quiz i created at school what peoples general favourite types of magazines are and sport, fashion as well as music were popular topics. 

Now i want to know about what people think about the city, whether if it is positive or negative. This will influence what sort of headings, sub-headings, fonts etc. i can make for audience. I will use websites like SurveyMonkey to find out,or even do some other types of research.  

Photo Opportunities(Organisation)

In the near future i plan to go on a photo taking spree which will include taking photos of famous locations in Birmingham, It is important for me to take original photos because you can get the picture in your own angle which could suit a meaning coming from a page title. For example if a heading quoted "Raging Bull" i would take close up photo of the Bullring Bull which expresses and proves the Bull's emotions said by the heading.

Talk of Birmingham (Drafting and planning)

The following information is part of research that allows to know even more about the city the magazine will be based upon

Quiz Conclusion (drafting and planning)

Quiz Conclusion

To make my Quiz as fair as possible I attempted to quiz different types of people from a range of backgrounds, I have also made the genders of the participants equal with 7 females and 7 males as i want to make my magazine appeal to both genders.

My aim from this Quiz was to discover what i should add to my magazine and if there is a correlation to what particular genders and backgrounds prefer so i asked my participants questions like what is your favourite hobby? What types of magazines are more you more interested in out of the following? and What makes a regional magazine interesting?                                                                  There was a correlation in males picking sports/health as magazines they are more into, and females picking gossip and fashion magazines.

As for hobbies a range of boys and girls both picked sport and music, some participants had more than one opinion in some sections of the quiz for example one female picked music, partying and cooking as her favbourite hobbies.

Sport was the most popular topic from my quiz as most participants chose it as a hobby and chose sport/health as their favourite magazine type. Therefore i think sport should be a big topic in my magazine as it was the most popular in my quiz by far; secondly music and fashion.

Magazine Quiz Review (Target Audience/Organisation)