My competition

I would say I am competing between two different types of magazines. these are North East Life and Vibe. 

I think I am competing with these two magazines because they are the two that inspire me the most. I have took most inspirations from these so I have to improve them and put my own design ideas to create my own unique magazine. I don't want to use the exact same ideas because i want my magazine to be different, and changed slightly. 

North East Life magazine is mainly cultural, and revolves around places and people. This is where i got my idea of using places from. I want my front cover to look like the image above as i feel like I can expand my ideas and make it look slightly more modern. This is where my magazine will appeal to different people. I am using the classic look like the North East Life, but putting my own touch on it with modern images and content. I just really like the layout and mood from that magazine, and with it being regional to my area, I could use it for ideas on contents I will use, and places I the North East I could take pictures of. 

On the other hand there is Vibe magazine which is more family orientated. It focuses on events in Sunderland that would appeal to families who have children. You can really see that it links to Sunderland, and that is where I got my other inspirations from. It helped me see that the colours red and white are used as they link in with the Sunderland football team, and that I could use that idea for my own magazine, website and billboard. Again, I really like the layout of this magazine as it is simplistic. It also gives the modern look which would appeal to young people, where as the North East Life would likely appeal to the older population. They both look like they would appeal to men and women, but each magazine looks like it would appeal to a different age range. 

So in order for me to stand out against these two magazines, I will put my own ideas with the ideas i have front he two, to create a similar yet more appealing magazine to women of all ages. My conventions will all be inspired by these, but i want mine to look individual and a cross between them both, classic yet modern.

This has helped develop my ideas by opening up too different styles, now I need to decide how I will use the both of them to create a magazine that will appeal to people.