USE - My front cover is quite similar to the 'Top of the Pops' cover, my model is in the centre of the cover and also her pose is similar. The coverlines are around the model, either over-lapping or fitted next to her. Another idea the 'TotP' cover gave me was the bold pink circle, I thought this would be a great coverline to use for my front cover as it stands out to the readers and pink is usually a 'girly' colour for most teenagers so they'd want to look and read what is inside the pink circle.
DEVELOP - The 'TotP' front cover has helped to strengthen some of my ideas in order to make my front cover look professional and presentable, for example, instead of placing the 'Popstars' name inside of the pink circle I have put it on the bottom of the cover in black bold text because I think the readers will be able to see the 'Popstars' name easily and clearly. I didn't want to place the singers name inside of the circle as I thought it would be difficult to find and would not pop out to my audience enough.
CHALLENGE - There were some challenges while creating my front cover, like the masthead, It was very hard trying to fit the text onto the cover without making it look small or too big and picking the right colour was hard to choose because the masthead is the first thing that the readers are going to see so I had to pick a bold colour to help make my magazine stand out. Adding the make-up on the cover was very difficult, on the 'TotP' cover there are no make-up samples so i had to think for myself and make sure the make-up was not taking over the attention from the model.
USE - The 'Spin' contents page helped me a lot while creating my contents page, I placed my model on the edge of the page so that she was on the edge but also in the middle just like the 'Spin' contents page. I took a long shot photo of my model to let the readers see what pose she's doing and what she's wearing. I included a quote in the corner of the page too, but i used black font instead of white because the background was too bright to use it with and i was trying to keep up with my three colours (Pink, Purple & Black).
DEVELOP - Instead of placing the Magazine's Logo at the top, I titled the page 'Contents' because if I placed my Magazine Logo at the top it would take away the focus from the model and it would add too much colour too the change, so i thought black bold font was a good choice. I was going to do my Features & Exclusive columns just like the 'Spin' contents page but I wanted to make it look more presentable, so I made the columns transparent and again used black bold text. The 'Spin' contents idea gave me and idea to add a bold rectangle in the corner of the page but for my magazine it would be a competition to give my readers a chance to win tickets whereas in the other contents page it just told their readers who the photographs were taken by.
CHALLENGE - Making my Features, Exclusive & Editors Note was hard to do because i had to pick a colour that would help to make it stand out a bit more and the only option I had was to use a white column and make it transparent, so I didn't stay with the three colour rule on this page.
USE - The Double Page Spread next to mine gave me some good ideas, I used two different fonts for my masthead which is creative and eye-catching because readers will notice the change in font an font size and will read the interview and also the photo of my model uses up one page just like the one on the right. I have used two colours for my interview which will be easier to read as the readers will know who is talking and asking the questions.
DEVELOP - Instead of adding a full size photo of my 'popstar' i decided to advertise an album instead as it will persuade my readers to buy it and listen to it. I wanted to include a quote from the interview so i placed it right in the middle of the the columns, the black bold text from the other double page spread gave me this idea.
CHALLENGE - The background on the professional magazine was just a white background whereas mine was a Union Jack which wasn't easy to do as I had to pick the right colours to blend well with my model and her outfit. Fitting the text into columns was not easy either because I had to make sure all the text was the right size to fit into a column each.
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