Secondary research results

As for my secondary research results i began by using the internet for such activities as researching bloggers who inspire me with the content they write as well as researching 'indie' branded magazines with smaller branding however strong reading audiences, as i found this to be most successful after my primary research. I created a mind map which included editorial make up and designs as this will be part of my creation process (shooting for my cover and page spreads) looking for inspiration for more editorial style make up as i envision a bold front cover with black and white images inside with a minimalist design set up in doing this i was able to create a mood board style visual piece which can help when when it comes to shooting. After this i began researching photographers through Google, i did this to find styles i like for the content of magazine, after researching i have changed my mind instead planning to do a black and white cover with my inside cover having the image in full colour to show the contrast. I plan for my cover to be monochrome and contrast the contents inside full of colour and saturation. After conducting my research on photographers i found the inspiration from a photographers Instagram page Brandon Woelfel who used coloured flares in his work, i instantly loved it and have decided to incorporate this into my magazine. After looking at other photography work that used flares as well as sparklers i knew i wanted to incorporate this into my work for my double page spreads as the vivid images were ascetically pleasing to look at.

As i will be shooting outside for this work, i will need to create a recce, however i will do this in another blog post once scouting out my potential locations for shooting.

After researching for the photography aspect of my magazine i began researching the content of my articles, i have made the choice to write two opinion based pieces on two very different subjects. One will be a news based piece talking about the recent discovery that government funded 'tampon tax' refunds was given to an anti abortion organisation. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tampon-tax-fund-life-anti-abortion-charity-shocking-bpas-a7663016.html
Another writing piece i am choosing to incorporate into my magazine is a poem, i have decided to do the poem based mental health as the images i am planning to take with the flares can be used really effectively showing imagery which can reflect the words used. For my research on mental health poetry i used the website http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poems/teen/mental-illness/ to study length as well as which poems were most successeful and therefore most popular on the website. For my final writing piece within the magazine i have made the choice to do a review on the newly released online streaming showing '13 Reasons Why', i have decided to do this as I think this will fit really well with the mental health poem i have decided to do, as '13 reasons why' deals with the subjects of Suicide, Rape and other harsh issues in today's society as well as the shows storming popularity since being released, I believed a review would fit well with me writing about why the subjects in '13 Reasons Why' needed to be included, no matter how uncomfortable they maybe. As part of my secondary research for this article i began by researching the different varieties of articles written about '13 Reasons Why' for reviews to articles studying the choices of music used, two arcticles that really stood out to me were http://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-importance-of-13-reasons-whys-use-of-british-post-punk-and-elliott-smith - this article studies the importance of the music used during the show, which is a key element in building up to the pinncle episode. Another article i really enjoyed was this; http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/04/13-reasons-why-review-netflix-teen-movies-tv-shows-say-anything - which touches bases with all the successful points of the television series.

Next on my quest through secondary research I began studying layout and font type of existing magazines to began the physical creation of my magazine. I began by studying layout, for this I used the website issue.com which is a website with an array of magazines online. Whilst filing through the archives of various magazines i found one called 'Local Wolves' which by coincidence had a feature piece in this months issue on Brandon Woelfel, my inspiration for my photography work. Once looking through the magazine, i felt inspired by the positioning of text and images in a style that could almost relate to that of a scrapbook as well as the fact that the font that seemed personal, like hand writings almost.

The next magazine i looked at was Ruse magazine, once finding this magazine there was nothing i found be be hugely influential or inspiring to me about it accept that the layout of images was something i really liked, not only this but the magazine included a poem. Something i plan to include in my own work therefore it was interesting for me to see the layout of the text, which i really enjoyed with this featured poem.

Once taking into account layouts that provoked inspiration i then began to look at font inspiration for my titled front page as part of my research. For this I found inspiration from the font used on the cover of Clash magazine, as i want my magazine to be bold and a statement piece I wanted my title font to have a strong structure to it which could be adapted certain ways depending on the lighting used and how the model was positioned. Clash magazine really stood out to me as a the title was used in a variety of ways but maintained a confidence and bold stance with the name. Since i have now began researching the types of fonts i like i will continue to research using the website 'Dafont' which contains a library of downloadable and usable fonts in which i can manipulate the fonts to change their formats and sizes.