In Adobe Photoshop, I decided to create a mock-up layout/storyboard-type document that outlined the very basic, primary ideas and thoughts for how I may want to structure my magazine for the final product of this exam project.
I created a range of a black, portrait boxes using the rectangular marquee tool and then duplicated these to create a storyboard-like layout to illustrate and begin creating a rough draft or the structure of pages for the magazine.
The purpose of this is to give me a better idea of what I want to do – it will allow me to understand how many pages the end result may be and will give me more confidence to branch off from this to create a more precise ad specific page-by-page mock up of the magazine. Doing this task can also be used a yardstick to judge my progress so far as I can see how many shoots I have done and haven’t.
Through the process of research, planning and actual construction of this project, I have realised how difficult it is to do in the little time I have and therefore, I have decided to keep it very minimalistic and in-turn, the final product will likely end up more like a mini photobook and in a sense, a little like a look book for a fashion house may produce.
Furthermore, it will also be very difficult for me to create words and text to the extent to which other fashion magazines such as i-D and Dazed do because this is an dependent project and because of this, I ma happy to showcase more so my photography and have little inserts of text that accompanies the imagery at times, however, it is certain that there will be a question and answer segment for each “character” as such. This is what I have called my models because I am exploring their stories behind their fashion and showing this to readers, therefore, they can be branded as characters to this story of modern0day fashion in adolescent teens.
I reiterate that this is a very brief primary mock up of what the magazine may end up being because I need to complete all shoots first and then I can decide how I want to present my work and in what order but I understand this will likely change as I am producing the magazine but it is useful to have a vague idea before starting.
STREET magazine is a publication that looks at several of the worlds fashion weeks each year and documents the happenings on the streets of the cities during the fashion week. It was founded by Shoichi Aoki.
William John “Bill” Cunningham Jr. (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) was an American fashion photographer for The New York Times, known for his candid and street photography.
Throughout the 20th century, youths had a strong influence on both lifestyle and culture. The Flappers and the Mods are two great examples of the impact of youth culture on society. 
Betty Boop, the cartoon character invented in 1930 by Max Fleischer as a caricature of a flapper, became an icon of the 1920s.
Mod is a subculture that began in London in 1958 and spread throughout Great Britain and elsewhere, eventually influencing fashions and trends in other countries, and continues today on a smaller scale. Focused on music and fashion, the subculture has its roots in a small group of stylish London-based young men in the late 1950s who were termed modernists because they listened to modern jazz. The Mods and Flappers often came as two but were still separate groups although interested in similar lifestyle choices such as drinking, smoking and going out with their peers to show off, for the men, the Mods, their masculinity and boisterousness and ability to get any girl as such and for the females, the Flappers acting provocative was the way to show off their body.