Thoughts of Layout

We looked at a couple of magazines Hayden bought in that were apparently aimed at our age range. I'd never heard of the magazine before and i can safely say i'll probably never look at it again, it's just not my kinda thing. Apparently, though, to aim things towards teenagers the main thing is COLOUR. We don't really need to have any sort of format, apparently we like things looking like a mess as if it had all been compiled at the last minute and just thrown together. Formalities are for suits. Random colours and seemingly random massive text seems to be some form of minor rebellion.

Drawings and doodles seem to go down really well, and basically have everything as simple as can be. Nobody really wants to read more than they have to for some reason, so make text massive and have as few words as possible. If this was a recurring thing, we could have an "Ask [someone]" page, but it's only one issue. I suppose we could ask people for questions before the release and put those in. Mainly people need to be able to relate to what you're talking about. There's no point talking to your grandparents about Facebook and The Pirate Bay - they won't get it. Similarly, there's no point talking to kids about videodisks and halogen lamps. WE JUST DON'T CARE! We have to target the right audience, which will be a pain because the media industry has such a variety of people it will be hard to please them all with the same thing.