Double page spread interview

It’s been a hectic year.

It’s all just gone really fast, a lot faster than I expected it to happen. One minute you’re nobody and the next you have so many opportunities, everybody knows your name and everybody wants a piece of you. It can be really scary.

What can’t she do?

I’ve been singing since I was really young, I get that from my mum. I learnt to DJ as I got a bit older and the people I made friends with in college were into that sort of thing.

The tune I can’t get out of my head.

Greyhound by Swedish House Mafia – its really powerful and it just makes me want to dance and go crazy.

The punk-girl look.

Everybody asks me about my look, obviously it’s quite personal and unique, it has adapted over the last year as I have become more aware of how I am constantly being watched and criticized. I never really used to care much about what I wore; I dressed for myself and wore clothes I felt good in. But being where I am you have a constant reminder that you are being watched and you do find yourself dressing for other people. I’ve managed to stick to my own style and I am still comfortable in my own skin.

Piercings and tats.

I have a few piercings; my nose, ears and tragus. I’d have loads more but I am a total wuss and hate needles, they really creep me out. I have a tattoo which I got really soon after I turned eighteen, my mum was shocked and tried her hardest to convince me to wait but it was really important to me. It’s across my side on my ribcage, it says ‘if at first you fail at least you failed whilst daring greatly’ which really means a lot to me.

My girl-crush is Rita Ora. I love her edgy urban look, and her hair is incredible.

The best advice I was ever given was by one of my closest friends. A few years I went through some quite stressful situations where I was just constantly worrying about what was going to happen next and whether I would be happy, I was always trying to make everything perfect. He told me to just chill out and only worry about being happy at the present moment, not get wrapped up in things that haven’t even had a chance to happen yet.

In the future I hope to be successful and happy. I don’t want to worry about it for the moment, I’m happy today and that’s what matters.

I dream of playing tomorrowland.

Don’t tell anybody, but my guilty pleasure is Keeping up with the Kardashians. I just love them, I don’t care what anybody says, they are hilarious! The ideal night in is curled up on the sofa, eating pizza and watching as much of a series as I can manage. Bruce is my favourite, he gets so picked on, bless.

You’ll never find me eating cereal. Ew, no way.

Target audience' preferred photo edit

Editing Pictures

To edit the photographs I took for my magazine I used Adobe Photoshop. I had never used it before so I took some time playing with the different editing tools and features. I practiced using the programme with my cover photo.



 

This is my original picture. As you can see, this is not a perfect picture. The model has red eyes, blemishes and imperfections. The lighting is also really dull and casual, not like any picture you'd see in a magazine.

 

Edit One

This was my first attempt. I used the red-eye reduction tool first to remove the red eyes that were caused by the camera flash. Then I used the spot healing brush-tool to clear up the complexion, however I found that I was still left with an uneven looking skin tone as the flash captures all your imperfections. So I used the smudge tool to attempt to blend skin discolourations and patchiness that was highlighted by the camera flash.

 

 

Edit 2

In my second edit I started by doing similar proceedures; I removed blemishes and red eyes from the picture. I used the smudge tool much more sparingly, I used it in the eyebrows to give them a much smoother look. I then changed the contrast and light, which made the hair darker, skin lighter and red lips brighter.

 

Fonts

I have now created a rough draft of my magazine cover and contents page so I have chosen fonts that I am fairly sure I am keeping for my final copy.

For the title of my magazine I have used the font '28 days later'. It is a block print, sprayed effect font that looks intentionally messy and rough. I think this suits the magazine name 'envy' and it will resemble my target audience of women in their 'freedom years'.

A font I'm using throughout my magazine for titles, headings, ect. is called 'LeviBrush'. This is similar to '28 Days Later' as it has an edgy, messed-up feel, except it allows lower-case letters to be used. It also has more of a brushed/splattered effect. I chose this font as it reminded me of a font used on the cover of the re-invented version of Company mag - one of my style models.

A font I have used for the name of my cover star is called 'Sunshine In My Soul'. I chose this font because it looks like handwritting, as if the cover star has signed the font cover of the magazine.

Final Idea

 My magazine will be monthly. It will be themed around house music, but also will encorporate more popular artists.

• Target audience: After deciding in my initial ideas I wanted a more feminine unisex magazine, I have since decided it will be a women's music magazine. I made this choice as I feel it would be easier for me to appeal to women, having read lots of women's magazines and being a woman myself. I also notice that most music magazine's have a primarily male audience demographic. The audience are aged 18 to 25, so they are just entering the adult wold and taking advantage of all the new freedoms and opportunities they have, such as clubbing and festivals. They aren't likely to be married or have children. They will be interested in house music, but also current popular music.

• House-Style: My house-style will be messy and look care-free, to reflect my target market. I will acheive this look by using suitable fonts, colours and content. The colour scheme will chance each issue, like magazines such as Grazia, Company or NME do. I'll have a basic scheme of black and white every issue, then another colour such as pink, blue or red will be used with it. This adds excitement and a defferent theme to each issue of the magazine.

• Cover: My Cover is going to generic in the way it will have the title as the masthead in the top left hand corner. The cover-star will be stood in the middle, slightly over-lapping the title with a slogan across their shot. There will be other features from the magazine along the right hand third.

• Contents: I want my contents page to reflect the care-free nature in NME, with the pictures and page numbers, but also the amount of information included in Q - as my magazine will be a monthly release, so will have much more content than NME.

• Double-page spread: This will be inspired by my company magazine double-page I analysed. Two-thirds of the page will be covered in a picture from my photo-shoot and there will be a interview down the right-hand side, which I will indicate that it continues onto the next page.

Initial Ideas

Q Magazine Analysis

Q magazine is a unisex music magazine aimed at people aged 25+. It is quite an expensive magazine as it is a mothly magazine with a substantial abount of information. The cover stars and feature stars are all very established faces within the music industry, such as Adele, Lady Gaga, Jay Z and Shakira, who have made some sort of contribution to music today. You wouldn't find Rebecca Black or Conor Maynard in the magazine.