Magazine Copy/ Recreation

One of our tasks in Unit 1 was to recreate an existing magazine. This was a helpful task as it enabled us to familiarise ourselves with the conventions of a magazine, improve skills with Indesign and think about the elements we needed to create to replicate the design. I chose a Company magazine which is a fashion and beauty magazine, as this is the type of high brand and same target audience that my own magazine will have.

I created the brush type myself using ink and a small brush, as I found it would add originality to my piece. Also a similar type was quite hard to find therefore thought I could replicate it better myself. I edited the type on Photoshop and made them cleaner and neater so they looked professional. I also inverted the 'high street edited' cover line, so that the black writing turned white to replicate the white writing on a black background as shown on the magazine.

This is a screenshot of the magazine in its working stages in Indesign. In the Indesign document I created a equal double page so that I could work on recreating whilst having right next to me. This was also a huge help as I could use guidelines to show where the text and images sat so my version was as close to the original as possible. I sourced all the other fonts myself from DaFont, which was a useful website as it built up my knowledge of the different fonts there were available.

I used my sister to be the model of the magazine, so to use my own image for this piece. Photgraphing my own model for the front page enables me to direct what pose she should be in, control the lighting and the wardrobe. This was so to ensure my magazine was similar as possible to the original.

Below is my final recreation of the magazine. I have included all the conventions featured such as title, model, cover lines, graphic detail and images. I created the boxes and graphic detail myself on Photoshop, created some of the type and used my own image. This promoted originality and made the recreation unique. I sourced the other fonts and images of clothing from the internet, such as DaFont for type and various webpages for the items of clothing I needed. I could not get the clothing the exact same as I did not own the clothing that the model was wearing in the original piece. However I did my best to make it similar by choosing a lace dress, pink belt, wavy hair, black tights and flower crown.