𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

Here is the development process of my magazine, I will put all of my ideas here and reflect on the decisions that I made. 

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It took me some time to develop my magazine idea, as I never imagined it would be simple and quick. While I have some ideas for this development that I came up from my head, I also utilize the internet as a research tool to come up with more ideas by looking up synonyms for the words I came up with using a thesaurus. I struggled to select between all of the options I had, resulting me to slower my decision making in settling a magazine title and main cover line, but in the end, I went with the one that best fit the genre of my magazine. From this, I also have been contemplating whether I should continue making a fashion genre magazine because I was not sure on who to use as a model for my front cover. At the end, I choose my little sister as the star appeal, hopefully she'll be able to corporate, hence I tried to think of a with a simple and not overly complicated pose for my magazine cover so that she can follow along. 

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Genre: Fashion
Sub-genre: Clothes/Outfits

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Name of magazine: 
- Chenelle (combination of my name) (French: caterpillar → doesn't make sense)

- Rainelle  
- Branché (trendy → in French) 
- Chic
- Venust (beautiful, elegant, graceful)
- Beauteous (beautiful) 
- Mode
- Fad 
- Dernier cri (very latest fashion → in French) 
- Style
- Bewitched (enchant and delight) 

- Constellation 

- Luminous

- Stellar

There are several names that I am interest for my magazine name. I personally like the names Chenelle, Branché, Venust, and Bewitched based on all the names I came up with above. Because Chenelle is a combination of my name, "Chenelle", and the word "Rainelle," it may sound fancy, but the meaning somewhat didn't make sense because audience might interpret it differently considering the word "Chenelle" in French means "Caterpillar," which has nothing to do with my fashion magazine. For this reason, I decided against using Chenelle as the name of my magazine. Although the word "Branché" translates to "trendy," which is relevant to the genre of my magazine, I am unable to use it because my main target audience is in Asia. This left me with Venust and Bewitched as my final two options. The word "Bewitched" seems intriguing to me because it may imply that someone can be greatly attracted to or interested in you, giving you the power to influence them (as they were cast by a spell). However, I decided in the title "Venust" for my magazine. "Venust" an adjective derived from the Latin word "Venustus" which is the Greek goddess of beauty. I chose this word since it is an archaic synonym of beautiful / graceful / elegant, which is more in line with my fashion genre as it is used to describe someone that possesses qualities of beauty, elegance or attractiveness. This word may not be a common word or easily understood in daily lives for people, but it is actually begins with the name of the Roman goddess of love (Venus). 

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Possible cover lines:

- Exclusive interview with (...)

- Fashion look-book 

- Secrets on healthy and clear skin

- (...)'s favorite essentials

- (...): Rising star 

- Skin that glows 

- Build confidence in yourself

- Fashion icon

- Ultimate fashion guide

- Self-discovery: Find your beauty

- What your (...) says about you 

- Rock your outfit in confidence 

- The new fashion sensation 

- (...); Music star 

For my magazine, I would like to use the main cover line, "Exclusive interview with (...)". Since my target audience is young teenage girls, I intended that my star appeal is well-known and is quite popular among them. Therefore, I thought that using an the sentence "exclusive interview" as my main cover line would draw in them, who look up to the star appeal as a role model. As a result, they would be curious to hear what the star appeal has to say in the interview especially when it is exclusive, meaning that it is more likely to appear on that magazine only (other sources cannot be found), as well as the audience would feel a connection with them.  

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Images plan 

- A lot of images of my star appeal/model posing in different poses and wearing various clothing (most of the pages are using long shots)  

- The products endorsed by my star appeal (skincare products)

- Musical instruments (Piano, bass), my star appeal/model might also pose in playing those instruments 

Magazine cover image

My magazine cover image plan will be my star appeal/model posing from a high angle, with phone cameras around her as if she's the center of attention as a rising star. I would choose my sister as my star appeal to pose as the main subject, and I need the help of my other family members to do the taking pictures pose. A challenge is to find a stable and good lighting.

Double page spread

My initial idea of my double page spread is to feature a famous young celebrity (My little sister) posing by holding an electric bass, the angle might be eye-angle level or either her looking down at the instrument. I envisioned the main image will take up both of the page, positioned in the middle. I may include a few more small, additional close-up photos to further support my article. To make my double spread title immediately recognisable, I'll put it the title in the upper left corner with a large font size. To start my sentence, I would also like to include a drop cap. In order to create a modern sleek aesthetic, I aimed for my double-page spread to be purple and grey, which also happens to match the color scheme of my magazine's cover. 

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Typeface title development 

Here are some of typeface ideas I've sketched that I want to use for my magazine

Here are the similar fonts I've found in the internet + analysis I did from the ones I've sketched 

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Colour research 

This is the colour palette I'm going for: 

According to colour psychology, the colour purple is associated with the following words: wisdom, wealth, creativity and ambition. I would like to use this colour palette and incorporate them to my magazine.

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