Double page spread- Article (Interview)

Interview with Funky House music artist- Fenix Taylor

This is my improved article for my music magazine. I made it more colourful and eye catching which looks more exciting to read, capturing the audiences attention, making them want to read on. I cropped images of the music artist and used different sizes making it look more exciting. I also used 'Render-> Lens flare' effect on the artists image to almost give a celebrity affect, making a spotlight on her. Other tools were also used such as, the airbrush tool, rubber, blur, sharpen, smudge which I used again, on the images of the artist to touch up. The background of the article was initially just the pink colour, however I thought it was too plain and didn't look like a typical magazine article. I therefore added some pictures (stamps) which I used from the pattern stamp tool, using different colours making it look more fun for the reader.

FINAL ARTICLE
Above is the final article for my music magazine. I added page numbers to make it seem more realistic, following the conventions of a magazine article, I also noticed a mistake within the text as it says 'Charlie' for the artists name in the previous article which I had changed, therefore I touched up the final article to correct it. Overall, I am very happy with how my article developed, as I think I have shown improvements from my initial ideas. Furthermore, I think I have been able to stick to the typical conventions of a music magazine of this type of genre and have been able to keep my article of interest to my target audience.

Developing the front cover

When I originally started creating my front cover experimenting with different ideas. I noticed that the figures hand on the front cover had been distorted, therefore I had to crop the hand from the original image and fix it onto my front cover. I also did this around the mouth area, when I saw that this technique worked quite well.
This is the first stage I got to when developing my front cover:

Images

I took a range of images of a friend, who was representing the young female music artist in my magazine. I took a variety of images from different angles which I would use for my magazine, some shown below:

High angle camera shot:

Medium shot:

Medium shot:

High angle shot:

I decided to use the image shown below for the front cover of my magazine as I thought it looked quite 'funky' and jolly, which not only represents the magazines genre, but also the audience being young, outgoing females.
Medium shot:

First draft of double page spread- article

This is a brief draft of my article- an interview with a young teenage girl- a new popular music artist from the UK- North London. I experimented with different colours and layouts and have decided on completely changing the layout of the interview as I didn't think it showed the typical conventions of a magazine article. For example, I want to include columns so that the questions don't cross the whole of a page. I also need to include my images of the artist and again, experiment with more colours and styles to make it more interesting for my target audience.

Experimenting with text types for title

I was experimenting with particular fonts which resembles the title of my music magazine. For example, 'Funky' has a really crazy, wacky aspect to it, therefore I chose quite spontaneous fonts, some of the fonts almost looking like handwriting. Below are some of the texts I created:

Below are two different fonts which I really liked and I found it difficult choosing which text I would use for my final title font. Therefore I decided to put both the fonts together to make 'Funky' and 'Fuse' stand out from each other. The 'Funky' word would be the handwriting text shown below (2), emphasising on the 'Funky'. Then for the 'Fuse' I decided on using the other font shown (1), which looks mechanic, modern and musical which again emphasises on the 'Fuse' which is a technical aspect to music, which could resemble, an amp-fuse for example.

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Below is the basic title text I am using for my music magazine, however I am still working with it therefore this is a only the basic outline of my text: