Online Pages

The pages online are already hitting off well with only being up and going for less then a day. We are highly postive this will help us sell and get the word out for our magazine. More people who find out more chance we can sell all and make enough money to make more.

Twitter Page

I (Leanne) have just created a twitter page. Just like the facebook page its a way we can show off our magazine to protencional buyers. We can also contact the twitter and facebook together to let people know it is the same thing. When we start finishing the pages we can add them on to the pages and get people to see some of the pages.

Facebook Page

I (Leanne) have created a facebook page of our magazine for basically free adversitings through the internet. I am asking people to add all their friends on to the page so they can see it. Meaning if we sell out of the ones we have printed we can re print more. This could work in our favour however many people may ignore so adding photos and getting reviews will be the best for the page.

Out of lesson

Tomorrow we have a meeting with Cambridge Evening News which I (Leanne) contacted last week. They want to interview us for their website and maybe it will go in the newspaper. This will help us boost up sells and publicity when it comes to the magazine. Also this would be great to talk to some who knows all about the industry already. We shall be filming and taking photos of the interview.

Also we will be going in to town to get final photos of places as well as going 2 shops about competions. One of them is for a t-shirt shop which they offered instead of an advert they can add a competion to the magazine which is great for us as it can get people in to the idea of having a chance of winning something as thats always free which people love. Also another is a cafe which said maybe something like free meal for 2 which would be great for our audience.

Money!

We have finally made up to the right amount of money to get it all published. We needed £500 for getting it printed and have actually raised £530. We are all very proud and also have a page we can still use for another advert. The money break down is :

Stabo - £25

Lelly Jewellery - £20

Hair Care Bunch - £30

Dressing Room - £50

Burwash Manor - £50

Removal Comapny - £60

Anglia Ruskin Fashion - £60

Cambridge Marketing - £60

Professional Acd - £60

Bake Sale - £105

Donation - £10

We are deciding at this moment of time to sell the magazine for £2.50 which would make £625. This would split between the 3 of us which would be around £208 each. I (leanne) think this is great for our first magazine. Knowing this can make money we could always go for another issue if it all works out.

Edited Photo shoot

I (Leanne) have finally decided on the 6 photos out of many for the photoshoot pages. We needed a photo for each piece of clothing that was being shown off. When choosing which one to use I thought it be best we had a range of medium and long shots. Also I wanted there to be movement through out the photos and slightly broken bodies with the poses. I blurred the ones with out a blurred background to them so they all tied in together, and all have a photo filter on top, using an orange. I also air brushed all the girls using the mixer brush to give them smooth skin and get rid of any blumlishes.

Cake sale

Today we are doing a bake sale to raise money to get our magazine published. We have made a number of different cakes and are selling them to people around college. As well as selling cake this is a good way of getting people aware of what we are trying to do. At lot of people wanted to know more about the magazine and what we are making. This is a good way of getting people aware for when it comes to selling the magazine. It also shows that people want a college magazine and we now know there is a large audience for our magazine. 

It has also given us more of an idea of what content we need to make a good fashion magazine as we learnt what people were interested in and what they would want to buy. So people knew we were doing a cake sale we created this poster on the right hand side and posted them around college. We also made a facebook page and added people from college to the event, this was a good way of getting the bake sale noticed. 

Results

Holly took the money home to count it all up, I got a text around 5pm from Holly saying the total was a massive £105.38.