Photo Shoot

We have been planning a photo shoot, the only day where everyone (Models, Make-up artist and us) is free is sunday. We've contacted The Fitz William Museum to let them know what time we will be arriving and have told them that it won't take longer than 2 hours. As the museum doesn't open till 11 and we are wanting to start a little earlier than that so we are going to do a shoot at Mill Pond first. I will be meeting the make up artist and then will be joining Leanne, Holly and the models at Mill Pond. After Mill Pond we shall be heading towards the museum to finish the shoot there. 

Wallpaper Designs

We're thinking about the layout and design of our magazine, we've been looking through other fashion magazines for inspiration and many of them have patterns. So we have done some research ourselves into patterns, Leanne went into B&Q and took many samples of wallpaper, not costing a thing. We want to use the patterns as inspiration for us to create our own for backgrounds of some pages and just general pattern designs. Leanne got a great range and we are currently discussing what we like and what we don't. This work for all sorts of pages as there is many ranges and styles which can fit to all our ideas 

Rearranged Flat Plan

We were happy with the current flat plan until we started thinking about actual content for example text and images and layouts. We haven't changed it dramatically just moved a few bits round. We have decided to move the competition page towards the end of the magazine, and moved a feature to where the competition page used to be, this means all the feature pages will be together, we think it will look better instead of having them scattered everywhere. We have also moved a advert further towards the end of the magazine, it will be on the back of the competition page as we are going to have a reply slip and it will have to be cut out, it makes more sense to have a advert on the back. The flat plan will probably have more changes but we're happy with it at the moment.

We've also added a key, different colours mean different things. We added this so we can look at the flat plan and know exactly what is going on at that moment of time.

Locations For Photo Shoot

St John's College

As I said before College was shut on Friday, while we were in town handing out our advertising leaflets we decided to have a look for some locations for the photo shoots. Our first thoughts were the colleges/universities, the grounds are beautiful and would be the perfect locations. Our first stop was St Johns College, you usually have to pay a fee to go on the college's grounds and have a tour but because we were inquiring about permission to use the grounds for a photo shoot we were allowed in without paying the fee. We spoke to a women called Angela McKenzie who is the Domestic Bursar's Secretary and Telephone Liaison Officer at St John's College, Angela said that its highly unlikely that we would get permission as the subject of the magazine didn't have a connection to the college. Angela told us she would ask for us and get back in contact, true to her word we got an email a few days later, unfortunately we didn't get permission to use the college's grounds like Angela said. Just before we left Angela told us there's a nice bit of land which didn't belong to the college and that a lot of people use that spot for photos. 

 

Outside the college grounds.

Random

While we were trying to find a way out of all the college grounds we come across a slopped surface where you take the punts down into the water. It's a quite place that really captures the beauty of Cambridge. If we were to use this as a location we wouldn't need permission, but it would need a little tidy up.

The Fitz William Museum

The next location we thought of was The Fitz William Museum. Leanne and I had been to the museum before on a trip in our first year of college. We went into the reception and spoke to a woman, she said that it's likely that we will be able too, she phoned someone to check and after 5-10 minutes we were told we had permission, we were only aloud to use the outside grounds, with that we had a look around the ground and picked a few spots we thought would look effective. 

 

Mill Pond

The last location we looked at was mill pond, we wouldn't have to ask for permission to use this area. Mill Pond is beautiful in summer, it's a large bit of land and there are many places within the area which I think would make the photo's look amazing. We only had a little look at Mill Pond and didn't walk all the way round, I'm sure we will to find the perfect locations.

Advertising

After sending out many emails to potential advertisers we thought we needed to go for a more direct approach. We created a leaflet which included the brief for our magazine and our contact details, as college was closed on Friday we decided that we would meet up in town and hand the leaflets out to potential advertisers. We targeted the independent stores as were not looking for big chain stores. We handed a few out to a few of the market stalls and to independent clothing shops. We think they seemed interested we will just have to wait and see.

Budget sorted

We have found our last slots for our advertisement space! and now the total of money is £550, we are in profit with the money being owed however still need £120 to pay the publisher and then £50 left over from another page. The extra money we thought about actually putting towards buying a stall in cambridge market square. I (leanne) was talking to amber who told her how cheap it actually is. This be great for us! We will be contacting them in the week.

Mood boards

Now we have roughly picked what sort of content we want in our magazine we have decided to create a few mood boards to help us visualise the sort of images and fonts we might want to use. 

We had about 5-6 magazines and each of us went through and cut out all the bits we liked. After cutting all the magazines up we had a massive pile of clippings, we then went onto separating the pile into two piles: Fonts/Colours/Patterns and Images/Content ideas.