My role in Heritage Magazine was visual promotion, this was primarily to be the social media manager, I was in charge of being the face of the magazine to post behind the scenes content for the social media. I created and ran multiple social medias; facebook, twitter and instagram. I also made some of the content for the socials such as the themed posts for the general election, I felt this was important to show as our magazine wavers towards the more political aspect of life within the British working class. As a way to make a cohesive theme between the magazine content and the social medias the idea for the run up of the magazine being launched I made a countdown which included the main advertisers within Heritage as a physical copy. 

The next thing I did was create a website for our audience to see how the magazine was coming together, I’ve never created a website before so this was a bit of a challenge for me. But, now that I’ve done this I can take this skill into future jobs. It was important that I kept on brand with the branding of “heritage” as a whole and not just this issue of the magazine, hence why I went for a basic design of black with white writing and orange accents throughout. 

I was also in-charge of events planning, the fundraising event, pr stunt and the main launch event for the magazine. 

As a part of the promotion of the magazine I decided to create a PR box to send out to influencers and other magazines. This included a personalised “HERITAGE MAGAZINE” tote bag, a tin of beans, heritage branded cigarettes, heritage branded bottle opener, heritage branded stickers, a ticket to our launch event, business card, a poster and a letter from our editor. I also created stickers based on our main advertisers and changed them on photoshop to include heritage branding. They will be given out during events. I also designed t-shirts for the heritage team to wear during events and presentation pitches. They will also be given out during events and included in the pr box. 

In the media pack my role was to look into the visual identity of the magazine and also the multi platform strategy, it was very important for me to keep a cohesive branding throughout the magazine. 

To really get a feel for this project I wanted to learn how to do some illustration, I’m not a very strong drawer so this really brought me some confidence. I was lucky enough to go to an apple workshop hosted by Giles Deacon where he showed us how to draw using iPads. Here’s some examples of the work I did:

THE THREE PHOTOGRAPHERS I AM GOING TO LOOK INTO:

• Glen Luchford
• Steven Meisel
• Jamie Hawksworth

The list of brands I am going to look at are:

• Loewe
• JW Anderson
• Vetements
• Gucci
• Calvin Klien
• Maison Margiela

My expectations of studying Fashion Communication with Business Studies at the University of Brighton are firstly that I will end this next few years with qualifications and hopefully a degree. I also expect to gain more knowledge of the fashion industry and loads of work experience that will help me gain entry into the fashion industry. My final expectation is that I will learn new skills I didn’t know before, such as more photography and more about styling in order to increase my skills in this industry.