Olivia Atkinson created a magazine spread featuring an interview with the musician Penny. She used black and white images to make them stand out from the color theme. Odd quotes in the article titles are meant to attract readers by seeming misleading at first. The contents page introduces the stories in the magazine and is divided into sections like NEWS, EXCLUSIVE, and FEATURES. For the interview, Olivia asked questions in black text with Penny's responses in white to make it visually engaging while keeping the layout simple.

1. Olivia Atkinson

2. I used black and
white images for
added effect and to
make them stand
I painted Penny’s nails in out more. I thought
on Picnik and I really think that as they were
it links in with the colour having free posters
theme well. It adds that they should get a
extra bit of detail. preview of them.
As said before I kept the
title the same as I think it I made this box to go with
works better. The only my colour scheme, I
thing I changed with it couldn’t make a black line
was the shadowing as it on Comic Life so I made it
looked better without. on fireworks, I also wanted
a white dotted border and
Odd quotes attract the had to make that from
reader as they are slightly individual circles on
misleading, as when you fireworks as well.
read that you’d think it was
very serious, but when you The colour blue on the
read the article you realise title of Penny and size
its not such a big deal but it of the font makes it
reals the audience in. more focused on.
On my practise’s I included a
runner on the bottom of every I had to include stories
one as I liked the idea of it. On on the front cover as
my final design I included it but I they attract people to
didn’t have a background on it the magazine, I did
as I thought it looked better originally have another
without. one on the page but it
looked to cluttered.

3. I thought it was
important to have
the date, the issue
number, and a I
made up a website
as it is a wider
As it was a contents range of media.
page, its an insight
to what the rest of
the magazine has to I had titles ‘NEWS’
offer, therefore I ‘EXCLUSIVE’ and
introduced it. ‘FEATURES’ as from
research I thought
that they were key
I divided the titles to a music
contents page magazine.
stories by a line that
is black and white, I
think this works well
and I think that the
layout of text and
the page number For specific stories I had
looks effective. pictures instead of just
having the whole page full of
writing. For the bottom two
I used different font stories I wrote a little bit as
on this story as I a teaser to the audience so
thought it would they know what is expected
make it stand out in the magazine. Some times
more and show a in a shop I’ll flick through a
different side to the magazine and which ever
magazine. looks best then I buy, so
having a contents that gives
just enough away for you to
buy it is key.

4. I included this
picture of Penny as
Again I did an I thought it was
introduction as I appropriate for the
thought that interview with her.
people should know I edited it in Picnik
a bit about her as there was a
before reading the piece of hair over
article. her face which
looked very
unprofessional.
I used a font that
looked like hand
writing to make it
look like I had
written it, I added a quote to make people
therefore more read the article. I added pictures
personal and less of a night out to so that the
fromal. audience could see what it was
like. A lot of double page spreads
have a whole picture as on the
one page and then text on the
other. Instead of having just one
image I had 4 images and text as
well.

5. For my interview, I asked the
questions in black and Penny’s
response was in white. There’s not
much I can say about this page as the
layout of text is very simple. I did
have the text just on the page
without a frame on but adding the
frame made it more separate and I
think it looked better. I kept this
page very simple as there was more
focus on the text itself. I also had an
image of penny with the name of her
album and a little bit of information
on it. For the text I used exclamation
marks and very informal text like
‘lurvee’ instead of love as the word
love was very serious for this context
so I tried to make it as personal as I
could.