Drip magazine is a fashion magazine that defies the genre conventions of a typical fashion magazine. Being a teenager puts me at an advantage when writing about my audience since I have a better understanding of people my own age, teenagers and young adults. Furthermore, the use of high school teenagers as models for my magazine sets magazine from other fashion magazines. Fashion magazines commonly have a famous person on the front. A model for drip. is a magazine is that is inclusive, anyone can be model for drip. By breaking this stereotype I am expanding my audience. In doing so, I think I achieve my goal for inclusivity.
In this delimitation of model diversity, it allows me to make drip. a safe place for teens to be okay with being themselves. This adapts my magazine to my audience. Typical fashion magazines create an unreachable standard for beauty. Models for drip. will optionally wear makeup. I chose to do this because don't want a model to look perfect. This makes my model more vulnerable allowing them to be themselves. In doing so, I hope that the readers know that it is okay to be themselves and that beauty comes in many forms. My use of teenagers for the front cover of my magazine clearly depicts that my target audience is young adults allowing the consumers to clearly identify with my magazine. Drip Magazine is centered on the idea of fashion being representative of the personality of young adults. Drip magazine is centered around facilitating the consumer’s desired style. The social issue represented is the position of fashion in the wake of personal style. Drip magazine conveys the idea that personal style and the creativity that comes with it should be embraced as a way to boost self-confidence.
My magazine uses a variety of fonts and bright colored fonts and backgrounds to attract my audience of young adults. I also used geometric shapes and frames, a special feature on Canva to make my designs more aesthetically pleasing. In terms of distribution, I would start would distribute my fashion magazine at school, with permission, of course. If my magazine is successful, I would ask local supermarkets to sell my magazine. This would also distribute my magazine on SnapChat and Instagram since these are social media platforms that are popular with my target audience of 15-25-year-olds. Having social media pages on Snapchat and Instagram has become instrumental for fashion magazines like Elle, Cosmopolitan and Vogue to remain relevant in the digital age. In this way, I am adhering to genre conventions but I will still add a fresh perspective to magazine’s social media accounts.
Though I have used Canva before, I was not fully comfortable using it until I used it for this project. Canva is a graphic design service that can help you create virtually any design. It’s free unless you buy the premium version, which is not needed because there are so many things you can do without it. My favorite tools to use are the frames. Here’s how it works you drag a picture to the frame and it places your image within the frame. Cool right?! I also learned to experiment with different kinds of text. Canva has over 100 different fonts so I had a lot to work with. I also learned how to group different kinds of text. I learned that when producing something it is important to take a step back and analyze what you have done in order to find out what you need to fix.
I used mixed media for the creation of my magazine. I relied on editorials from magazines like Elle, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar for inspiration for my two-page cover story. I used Photoshop to create some of the graphics that appeared in my magazine. For the most part, I used Canva for the creation of the magazine.
I truly enjoyed this exprience it allowed me to have complete creative freedom. Who knows maybe I will create another fashion blog. I thank you for helping me and I hope you enjoy my first issue as much as I did.
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- Alexa :)
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