Wednesday, 16 December 2009


This is the completed double page spread. I made up the questions ensuring that I included the infomation from the introduction on the left of the page. I wanted the questions and overall interveiw to be informal to show what sort of personality they have. I added a small picture in the corner of the the page showing them with another star. However I didnt mention this in the interveiw whereas I think I should have.



Fore my double page spread, i decided to do an interveiw. Therfore I had to make my layout suitable for this. As a group, two of us done an interveiw, and one of us did an article. We decided not to use the same layout as each other as the magazine NME didnt follow these conventions. I wanted a simple but effective layout, so I just used a block of colour to the left, and an image of the people who were being interveiwed on a strip in the centre of the page. I tried to use rule of thirds by placing the two people in the middle of the page. I placed the block of colour to the left as thats where the eyes tend to look first. In the title I used the name of the band and an image of a guitar to suggest their egdy style. I used the colour grey because it was one of the main colours on the front page. I used pink as this is the colour on one of "The Misfits" lips.
I wanted the pictures on my contents to be of a retro popstar. Therefore I took photos of someone wearing the same styled clothes as the models on the front page. The images would anchor one of the pages to the left.


As a group, we decided to keep the contents page simple. This way we could make all three look the same with ease. To show that this contents page was for issue one of 'Un-plugged', I used the same colour scheme and font. All three contents pages used the 'U-P' to show it's for 'un-plugged'. We also all used the same sub headings.


I then added a main strapline at the bottom of the page. I used text and secondary images and framed them with a black border so that they could stand out. I took into account the rule of thirds when adding this to the magazine cover. I wanted the text to be on the left and the images at the right. This is because the eyes automatically read from the right. The text also anchors the images. I used the same colours for the text that I used for the mast head to maintain a proffessional outcome on my magazine cover.
As a group we decided to use this photo for one of the magazine covers as it fit the conventions of the magazine we wanted to portray. The clothes worn by the models are colourful, bright and unique. It suggests to the reader that they too can be unique like the girls on the cover if they buy the magazine. The poses are confident and quirky. When we took the picture we had to take in to consideration the rule of thirds as this is one of the conventions of a magazine cover. The masthead, issue number and bar code are also general conventions. I edited the image so that the two models stood out. I did this by using the lasso tool to select the girls and make them brighter, I then lowered the saturation on the brick wall. I put the top of their heads over the mast head to suggest to the audience that the magazine is popular.