This is the information I found while researching other pop magazines. This information is very important as it will help me when making my own pop magazine.

The Treatment

The Magazine: PUMP IT UP

Target Readership: PUMP IT UP is a new magazine aimed at females who enjoy pop music. The reader is aged between 12-16 year old. At this age they are now more involved with the latest music and up to date with new songs. The readers of the magazine may by now have part time jobs earning their own pocket money for them to buy the magazine if released weekly or monthly. Parents of readers will fall into the C1/C2 socioeconomic grouping, this then means they can buy the magazine for their daughters. Readers of Pump it up have a strong interest in programme's such as X Factor and Pop Idol. PUMP IT UP is the girl that wants to be up to date with the latest gossip. She is bold and sassy, she is very keen to get the most out of life. 

Form and Style: PUMP IT UP is an A4 colourful, jampacked magazine with celebrity gossip, interviews, fashion and quizzes. The cover contains models of approximently the same age as the target audience. The colours used are very bright colours such as pinks and purples. Each issue will feature famous bands and artists, these will either be the popular boy band or attractive female role models. X Factor and actors and actresses from wellknown teen TV programmes will appear throughout the magazine. Coverlines show the magazine to contain a lot of material , dealing with issues that every teenage girl wants to know about. The fonts used are simple and bold which are easily read. The graphics used often have a cluttered feel to give the effect that this magazine is a good value for money. The magazine will sell at £2.00, this is an affordable price for a teen magazine making it realistic.

Themes and Typical features: PUMP IT UP will have a regular theme occuring of an everyday teen magazine. Every issue will contain celebrity gossip, interviews, latest music releases aswell as fashion and questionaires/quizzes. There will be a strong focus on male artists and boybands which most teenage girls are interested in. However the magazine will also contain other information such as friendships,pets and school work. The magazine overal will be informal and chatty, the use of language will be familiar to the target audience, this will hopefully avoid the reader becoming bored and not wanting to read on.

Potential advertisers: A range of brands will feature in the magazine which relate to the target audience. Make up brands will appear, online shopping websites will be feature and also retail shops.

Editorial Team: The editorial team for PUMP IT UP will be made up of  well experienced magazine writers, which have worked with magazines aimed at teenagers in the past, they have previously worked with other magazines Girl Talk and Top of the Pops.

CONTENTS PAGE LAYOUTS

These are my possible contents page layouts which I will be using for my music magazine.  

COVER PAGE LAYOUT

These are my possible cover page layouts. However I have still not decided which one to use. I prefer the 3rd one but I also like the 1st one. Due to deciding to produce a pop magazine, it is going to be a very cluttered and colourful front page filled with a lot of pictures and coverlines.

 

These are the possible titles that I will be using for my pop magazine title. I am finding it difficult to decide between the three. Please comment below which you prefer.

PHOTOSHOP PRACTICE

 

 

 

 

This is the first time I have properly used photoshop. We were given the task to turn a picture of a crab into the front cover of a cook book. I found using photoshoot very complicated but the more I used it the easier I was finding it. We firstly selected the picture of the crab from the original picture and put it on a page alone. Following on from this we then had to crop the lemons out of the original picture and place it on the new page. I have found this very challenging and therefore used the magic wond to remove any background colour, we then placed them either side of the crab. After this we then increased the canvas size by 2cm and placed the picture of the grab to the right hand side of the page. We then filled in the background of the front cover, I chose the colours blue which contrasted well with the picture of the crab. Finally we then added the title of the cook book 'CRABMANIA'.
 
After completing this exercise with photoshop, I now feel more comfortable using it when I come to make my own music magazine cover!

ACTION PLAN

ACTION PLAN!!



11th-15th Feb

 Layout designs
 Font designs 
 Treatment Sheet 

18th-22nd Feb 
Plan Photo shoot 
Take Photos
 Save selection 
 Textual Analysis on 3 covers, 2 contents and 2 Double Page Spreads 

25th-1st March 
 Make Front Cover
  Post drafts 
  Collect Audience Research 

4th-8th March 

 Make Contents Page
 Make Double Page Spread 

11th-15th March 
 Test Pages 
  Start Evaluation