The document discusses the design choices made for various elements of a magazine, including the cover, contents page, and a double page spread interview. For the cover, minimal text and a mysterious image were used to attract the audience. The contents page lists topics of interest to the target audience and was inspired by Clash magazine. A double page spread interview was modeled after a Rolling Stone interview with Lana Del Rey, aiming to make the artist relatable. Continuity of color schemes, fonts, and outfits were used to link the different elements together.

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

2. 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.
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

3. 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.
My double page spread was inspired by Rolling Stone. I remember when I was int he
stage of researching and planning that 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

4. 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.