FINAL PRODUCT; Front Cover; Contents and Double Page Spread.

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After a tonne, of deciding, re-deciding, positioning, deleting, re-layering, editing , re-creating. 

This is my final product!

I found that after I thought I had finished my front cover, I hadn't and I didn't really like it.

I think that with time and more skills I could have made these look a lot more professional.

However I believe that my product as a whole, follows conventions and hits my target audience.

Contents Page Second Draft

This is the second step to my Contents page build up. I have picked two main images so far to feature on my contents page. One being the cover story the other being the "Ben-j" competition plug. I conventionally have placed the name of the magazine upon the contents page, however I think i might make it smaller. I have used a blocked layout to keep my contents simple, but effective. Putting across all the information needed without looking to crowded.

Contents Page First Draft

This is my First draft of my contents page, so far and I don't really like it. I don't think it for-fills all the conventions of a contents page and I'm not sure if it is appealing to an audiences eye, therefor I think i'm going to restart and create a fresh contents page.

Double page spread

Originally I was to use these images I made using the heart used on my double page spread to
the questions and answers however found that they take up alot of space cutting out allot of my actual answers therefor I cut it out.

Process and Editing

Firstly I used power point to create a black box for my album cover,.
After doing so I transfered the box onto photoshop in which I then used the
brush tool in a low opacity to build up the effect of clouds.

Next I transfered the image back onto powerpoint to crop.

After cropping my image I placed a different coloured background
behind my picture to allow myself to see the album cover with the clouds.

After doing so I clicked on picture effects and tested the various effects
which took a while.

Once I found a effect I added a border to my image in order to
portray that it is and album.

This became my final album background.

After finding a background I then imported my image into photoshop to
finally add the album title and artist.

My Double Page Spread Drafting

This Is my double Page spread drafting process in which I cut and changed various things.

On this double page spread, this was my first attempt, I found that the left 

hand side where my main image was very bare, I also found that my standfirst wasn't very

long and didn't really explain much about the article therefor I decided to edit it.

On my second draft I found that by moving the pull quote more centrally in the middle

of my article was more conventional, and I decided to expand on my standfirst. However now after removing my masthead/heading and placing it within the article, I now have no masthead/heading 

and the left hand side is still quite bare.

On my third draft, I decided to add hearts to the left hand side of the page

In order to add a touch of girlyness and to fill the negative space which was there before.

I also decided to re-change the columns and instead of having three I made it to 4 and re-positioned and re-coloured the text. However I still had no masthead/heading.

On my final draft, I had finally found a masthead/heading and I felt happy with 

the out come to my double page spread.

The Lead up to my double page spread /article.

When considering my article I must consider my pull quote from my front cover "All An Act".

First I must consider if I am to do a Question & Answer or If I am to do a story article.

When considering my article I found that a Question & Answer would work best for my pop genre. I found that I due to the costume used for my  front page It would work best to discuss some for of growing up and change. Almost as if "Lucy-Loo" was acting as someone she wasn't.

When writing my question and answer I considered my models character profile;

Name; Lucy-Loo

Age; 17

Occupation; Now singer

Education; Was at a public school

Siblings; Older sister

Relationship; single 

Parents; Lives with Mum. Dad rarely visits.

Albums; Recent single; 'free'

Record Label; Island def jam records.

Hair colour; Brown ; Dyed pink

Eye colour; Brown

Writing a character profile allowed me to have a pre-idea of what I can write about such as;

Relationships (Love Life)

Parents (Home Life)

Occupation (Rise To Fame)

Albums (What It means to her)