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| As we can see from this draft, I have taken the main image from my first magazine front cover draft and put it on my third draft because the masthead and typography on this draft was the most eye catching and effective. This design meets the conventions of a magazine front cover well, and the use of direct mode of address stands out a lot. However, in the text, I have included the colour purple to highlight the key aspects of the point, but this colour gets hidden away by the colour of the models dress slightly. I didn't really want to change the colour of the writing that is meant to stand out because it follows the house style and colour theme to the magazine, which is what tied it all together.
I have also made some changes to my final front cover design by changing the background colours to light pink, light blue and light purple because I thought that if I was to chose any of these colours that they would be the most suitable as they are colours that wouldn't clash with any of the colours on the front page.
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Here is the analysed feedback I received about the colours I have added to the background, I produced this through PowToon:
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| Miss left some feedback on my double page spread article, which I found really useful when going back to read over and making changes to make the interview as good as it can be. I am going to make these changes and put them onto my final version ready to be put together in the magazine. |
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My attempt at designing first double page spread ended up like this. I designed the main heading of the article in the same font 'Cheri Liney' so stick to the same house style of the front cover. The colours pink and purple are still in use and will be throughout the magazine, so that everything can piece together nicely, as well as this, I still used purple for the hearts because I see this as a unique style for the design throughout the magazine. I decided on the image of my model Derrie because I think it looks quite fun, as she is holding a hairbrush as a microphone. As well as this, the hairbrush is an essential accessory for everybody, mainly girls, therefore it is an object that reflects on a girls everyday life.
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| When continuing to design my double page spread, I typed up the interview and put the text into positions so that it didn't look too squashed and there was enough room for the relevant questions. I did type up some more answered questions onto a word document, however there wasn't enough room to fit this all onto one double page spread; this lead me to picking the most important interview questions. I kept the image and the title in the same place, because they both stand out here and the image breaks up the writing a bit. I also added a little introduction to the interview, because to me this bit is important as it tells you about what is going to be spoke about and a little bit about the artist. |
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| By looking at this design I produced, I have changed the introduction about Derrie because it says that I interviews her about embarrassing moments, which I did, but some of the answers took up too much space so there wasn't enough room left to include that bit of the interview. I thought about including it still and getting rid of some of the other question and answers, but the questions I have included now are more relevant and important I would say. As well as this, I made another change of adding a thumbnail image which was a selfie of Derrie because it reveals a bit more of her personality and what she gets up to in her free time, so that the audience can see a bit more about her and it draws them in, also to me, it breaks up the massive chunks of text which is a lot to read, but will be interesting for anyone who likes/ wants to know more about the upcoming star Derrie. |
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This is my final design of my double page spread, I have made a few changes from the last design that I had produced. I adjusted the location of the writing a bit to spread it out more so that everything didn't look as squashed together and unattractive to read, however the interview still covers the space of the double page spread. I was able to do this because I moved the main heading over to the left which enabled me to move the introduction to the right of it, which is really effective because you naturally read from left to right, so the title comes first and them the introduction should be read straight after, then followed by the interview. Finally, I moved the thumbnail image and the cover line for it to a bigger space after I had moved all of the text around, now the image fits nicely between the text. The use of the colours blue, pink and purple helps me to stick to my house style of the magazine Pop it, the colours all work well together and don't clash. Also, having the writing as black makes it stand out from the light blue background which is good. When designing the double page spread I decided to use the colour light blue for the background, as this was considered an option for the main colour scheme of the magazine as well as pink, purple and black all recieving 60% of the votes in the survey I produced, meaning I had to try and incorporate all of these chosen colours some how, which I have managed. Overall, I am happy with all of the changes that I have made to end up with this final design of my double page spread. |
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This is the first step of producing my contents page, I downloaded all of the fonts to my computer and inserted most of the text, except the headlines to go with the page numbers, but at this stage I haven't yet thought of all of the headlines. I still need to add a background, images and headlines for it to be completed.  
For my 3rd draft, I wanted to make it completely different to the 2nd one because I didn't like how boring it looked, so by putting loads of little images at at the bottom of the contents page which also ties in with the incentives from the magazine, I thought it would look a bit more attractive. I also wanted to stick to the 50:50 ratio of photos to text, which I think this design follows quite well. My target audience is attracted by colours and images, which I think my contents page has done very well. As the images at the bottom all have different costumes, I think it makes the contents page look more intriguing and makes the reader want to know more about what is inside the magazine as a whole.
This is my final design for my contents page. I am happy with the progress made and how the final design has turned out! I think the house style of the magazine has been stuck to, by looking at the front cover and contents page, and the bright colours make it look very attractive. Overall, there is a mixture of images and text which is a key point for the ages that will be reading this magazine, because younger people don't just read, they look for different images. All of the text is music related and the listed contents is very much music and celebrity orientated, which is the aim for this music magazine Pop it. All of the images at the bottom of the page are of the upcoming star Derrie Oliver, because this magazine is focused on her, and so is the double page spread.
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| This is my third and final layout for my magazine front cover. On this front cover there is a variety of different pieces of text spread around the front cover, but not fully covering the main image. The thumbnail images on this front cover are my own photography as well as the main image and I think they stand out because none of my other magazine front covers have thumbnail images on them especially to show off and give the audience an insight to the incentives. This magazine also looks effective because the headlines are still big and stand out because they're also in another colour which stands out. The use of the black and purple writing in the anchorage texts are effective because it incorporates one of the house style colours of purple along side the professional, straight forward black writing. I have kept the masthead at the top of the design because this starts to create a feel for the house style of my magazine. |
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In the second draft of this layout I have changed the main image to an image with mise-en-scene that is really girly, for example the coat is pink and fluffy which really links to the target audience of teenage girls because pink is a 'girly' colour and fluffy things are likeable by all girls. I also moved the incentive to the centre of the page because this way it can catch the readers eye and when younger girls look to buy magazines, a lot of them look straight for what they get for free.  |
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What I like about this design is how all of the colours start to blend together nicely, the use of the mise-en-scene(the coat) and the bubble with the incentive/anchorage text also the masthead, they all blend together nicely. The cover line stands out a lot which is the main aim to catch the readers attention of a new singer coming about. The only downside to this design is how much the black anchorage text blends in with my models hair because the text starts to disappear, therefore I would need to change the colour of this if I was to keep the same main image. One final thing I think that I should do is edit out the red eye on the model, this makes the magazine look very unprofessional and it ruins the image of the front cover as a whole.   After making all of these changes to the same layout, my favourite and final design would be the first draft at the top of this blog post, despite the fact that the text blends into the image a bit, with a couple more changes to the text, perhaps making it bolder it would look just as good and stand out more. As well as this, I would go on to using the main image from the second draft I made, even though they are the same, this image has no red eye, because I edited that out, like this:  |
