The document discusses the design choices made for various elements of a magazine cover and interior pages. For the cover, minimal text and a mysterious image of the artist are used to attract the audience. Font and color choices also aim to intrigue readers and draw connections to other popular magazines. The contents page provides descriptions of topics of interest to the target audience. Inspiration is drawn from the simplicity of Clash magazine. A double page spread profile of the artist is modeled after Rolling Stone, using photos and an interview format to help readers relate to her as a new artist and feel they can connect with her emerging style and talent in the indie music genre.

1. I think that my magazine cover
attracts my audience as it has a
sort of an air of mystery entered
around it due to the minimal text
that is illustrated on the cover. Not
only that but the image at the centre
of the page with the addition of the
simple colour scheme. My cover
star is dressed in a very simple
outfit with hints and connotations of
Lana Del Rey. Which I do feel
carries a high degree of importance
as this will convey a sense of
familiarity to my audience, they will
recognise the similarities which will
aid and benefit myself in attracting
my audience.
The big slightly bold masthead
follows conventions of other popular and successful magazines and the use
of white also. I think that my choice to put the e’s in lower case while having
the other letters in upper case could attract my audience as they could be
interested in things that have a slight touch uniqueness. The use of the pink
for my artists name creates a contrast between the image and the white
text. It highlights a sense of femininity within the magazine and potentially
could soften the serious facial expression carries by my artist. I put the
coverlids which apply to my audience at the top because the first place they
look at on a magazine is the top half as things tend to descend in
importance, which is applicable here. I felt that it was important to highlight
my artist in an obvious but at the same time subtle way as I wanted to keep
things clear and not have a noisy cover. I think my decision to go with the
fuchsia pink was good as it does flow with the other colours on the cover
and together they work in harmony. I felt that it was important to make my
image powerful as I didn't want my audience to forget who Lily Harris was
additionally to further emphasise that with this image I wanted my audience
to feel something so that they were able to form some kind of connection
with her. She is stood tall, with her shoulders back and her head up. She
looks down at the camera with her piercing brown eyes forcing the audience
to make eye contact with her. I am very happy with this image as I feel i
have done what I originally set out to, for this image I took inspiration from
Clash Magazine and i-D magazine as they have iconic pictures each
carrying their own sense of individuality.

2. My contents page attracts my
audience because it contains a
detailed description of subjects that
there are interested in that they
would need or want to know.
Because of the difference in font size
or boldness etc the audience is able
to quickly pick out pieces of
information without having to go
through everything just to get to the
part that they wanted. Although I
kept some continuity from my cover
page such as some of the fonts and
in particular the colour scheme,
something I did change however was
the font of the masthead. I had been
contemplating keeping the one that
had been used for “merge” on the cover. But I deemed it necessary to keep
that exclusive to the cover and to mix things up a bit for the contents page.
For my contents page I was inspired purely by clash. I just really loved the
simplicity with their contents page, for some reason or other it really
grabbed me, so in an attempt to emulate their work I created my own.
Having look at it now I am happy with it, however my only regret is that the
femininity that began in my contents page seems to have faded somewhat
in my contents page, I definitely think that if I had another chance to make
any changes I would rectify this. As since my aim is to reach my audience
and with the majority of my audience being female then this is necessary.

3. My double page spread was inspired by Rolling Stone. I remember when I was in the stage of
researching and planning that I was hung up on Lana Del Rey and how I wanted to create my
artist very closely to her. Which was when I came across the double page spread about her,
very similar text, similarly set out. She had numerous pictures of herself on their featuring one in
particular with was her sat on the floor with her cat. I really liked it as it was a little
unconventional you don't really tend to see people jumping at the thought of having their picture
taken when sitting on the floor, but she did. I also felt that within that there are a couple of
hidden connotations that she is a regular person and she doesn't feel as if she is above
everyone else. My aim was to really make people feel that they could relate to Lily. On my cover
page I had the subtitle of “New girl on the block” which I eventually decided that I would use that
to name my article. I did keep some continuity as I used the same font which was used for the
masthead of my contents page as I did for the name of my article, which gives the audience
some familiarity as I didn't want each page to feel totally different. Not only that but the continuity
of the mise en scene was carried from the cover page to here as if it hasn't been noted already
Lily is wearing exactly the same clothes in the cover page as she is on the double page spread.
I felt that the cover page was all about her face and her features, the double page spread is still
but not as much as I wanted my audience to connect with her here, see her style and have an
insight to what she is about. I decided to have an interview based article as since she is a new
artist I wanted to give my audience a chance to get to know her a bit before they made a
judgement. I followed the alignment of Rolling Stone as I think it has a really transparent look
which is easy for the eyes to follow. I feel that because my double page spread keeps the
relaxed look, it really demonstrates the style of music in which I am trying to portray which in
turn will attract my audience as my audience is all about new things then they will see this as an
opportunity to look at Lily who is new and unique. I feel that because some conventions within
the magazine have been challenged then once again this will aid the process of trying to attract
my audience since it is a breath of fresh air. Lily’s style really connotes the genre so when
referring to the music it all works together. Not all indie music is chilled out that isn't the main
focus, the focuses are finding new and up coming artist’s and looking at people with a real talent
and ultimately the reason why it is so powerful is because the audience is able to make a
connection. Which is what I have tried to achieve here. There isn't such a hierarchy in this genre
which compared to other genres you find one. In terms of the huge difference between the stars
and the public so my aim was to make sue that my audience was able to relate with lily.