Front cover - Different Images

Here I put together my detailed mock-up with my main photographs that I had taken. I prefer the third image, as even though my model is not meant to be the typical 'rocker', she still looks like she has a 'rocker' side to her, from her body language and the way she is stood up by all the graffiti, leaning on the wall. The guitar on all three of these images help to clearly show that my model is a singer and a musician. Now I know that I like this image the best, I will put my other images on, and change the layout a bit.

Photographs

These are just a few of the photographs I took for my final front cover and double page spread. I was unable to get to the main location where I wanted to take the photographs, in the cave, due to the tide being in, however, I managed to get to all the other places.

Double Page Spread - Detailed Mock Up

Here is my more detailed mock up version of my double page spread, with photographs from the internet. I looked at a few different double page spreads and based this one on a few of them that I saw included my two research double page spreads. I kept with my colour scheme again, and kept the same fonts that I have been using throughout. On my final version I might change the layout a little bit, and will have to move a few things around as my real image will be different to this one. I have created an interview in this mock-up version which I will be using for my final one as well.

I created this mock up of my double page spread. The dotted lines represent the centre. On this mock-up I have used more space for images than for the actual text as my two research double page spread shows. I have the mast head at the top so it is nice and easy to see, and I have the text in two different places, so that it is not just one big block of writing, it is seperated out.
If you click on this image, it shows the proper one which isn't as dark and easier to see.

Double Page Spread - Research Continued

This double page spread from an issue of NME again takes up most of the space with an image, the image takes up a whole page, the title of this page also takes up a lot of room, as it covers over two thirds of the page. The font of this is in big bold letters, in black boxes, this makes it stand out a lot more and makes it more interesting to look at. It uses the colour scheme of red, black and white again, this must be a common colour scheme for this type of magazine. The girls clothes that she is wearing is mainly reds whites and blacks which all go with the scheme, she is looking directly at the camera, like she is looking out towards the buyer of the magazine, this would make the magazine seem a bit more personal to each person, as in she is talking directly to you as a buyer. The background of this double page spread is just plain white, this is effective as it makes you look at the other things such as the image and text, the white backgrounds suggests that she is innocent, however the black and red text and clothing suggests that she is not as innocent as she makes out to be. The mast head supports this with the words 'attention seeker' and 'honest'.There is very little text on this page, as again their target audience is teens and young adults, who genuinely have the sterotype of not reading much and having a short attention spam, which is why the images are so big as its much more interesting to look at. Lily Allens name does not appear on the mast head at all, because the magazine persumes that its audience would know who she was, however, her name is then highlighted in red, its highlighted again because again like the last magazine, red usually means something important.

Double Page Spread - Research

Before creating my double page spread I again researched double page spreads by looking at and analysing one from Kerrang and from NME. This double page spread from an issue of Kerrang has a whole page as just one image, with just a little text in the corner, and a small image in the bottom corner. The image is in black and white, however they have tints of red in it, which goes with their theme colour for this as their text is red and white on a black background. There is no other colour on this page apart from red, black and white, which makes the colour scheme stand out even more. There is not a whole lot of text on this double page spread, it mainly consists of images, as there more interesting to the eye. The text that there is, is surronded by images, which makes it look more appealing to read, and because there isn't too much text the reader will most probably read it, as their target audience would be teenagers to young adults, and stereotypically they don't like to read a lot. The 'world exclusive' makes you want to read it more, as you won't see this anywhere else other than this magazine. It is in a red box as red automatically draws in your attention, as danger signs or road signs are red, so it genuinely means something important. From the images we can see that this double page spread is about a concert, from the way he is holding the microphone to the way his expression is on his face with his mouth open. We can also tell this will be about MCR because of the images and the text at the top, the magazine has shortened the word My Chemical Romance down to MCR because they will persume that all their readers will automatically know that, that is what it means. On the right hand side is a column with MCR tracks in it, this is a type of advertising as it advertises there newest songs so people can go and download/buy them. The text is in a box which is white, this on the black background clashes, and stands out a lot, so therefore automatically drawing the eye to it.

Contents Page - Detailed Mock Up

I created a more detailed mock-up of what I would like my contents page to look like, again for this one I used images from the internet, however I will be taking my own photographs for my final version. I carried on the theme of red, black and white, and also carried on the theme of having the guitar neck. I've created an editors letter on the left, and used quite a big space at the top for an image, which would be one of the stories in the magazine. However, this image has posted quite dark, if you click on it you can them see the proper image.