PRELIM - Introduction and Initial Ideas

Hi, my name is Anita and welcome to my blog. This blog will consist of my work during GCSE Media Studies. We are currently studying magazines and our brief is to design a magazine front cover

and a contents page about fashion for 14-18 years. I have been given the chance to create this from my choice which will feature items and information from my own perspective.

I am very excited to start creating the front cover and contents page as I could be able to relate to it since it is a fashion magazine. I am hoping to go into deeper research with my work and can understand the different views of fashion that people have. I am looking forward to making these as I will be able to learn new techniques that will be useful for my studies. A worry that I have is that in the past i have used Photoshop but it has been a few years since I have used it but I am hoping to learn everything again and make this magazine look successful.

At the moment I do not have ideas set for this magazine as I need to carry out my research to find out what my audience will be interested in. I do not want my magazine to look to packed and detailed because I just want to be a simple one with a limited amount of information.

I am looking forward to start this task as it seems very fun but also a lot of work but I hope to learn new techniques while designing this.

- What you've been tasked to do

- What are you excited about with the brief

- What are your worries or concerns

- What are you hoping to achieve

- What are your initial ideas for your magazine

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