DRAFT BY CLARA RODRIGUES

Magazine Cover For the magazine cover we did a lot of research into it, a lot of my decisions that I have made for my final piece have been influenced from real magazines such as ‘Vibe’ magazine, ‘GQ’ magazine and ‘Rolling Stone’.The first decision I have made for my final piece was to have the name of the magazine ‘Fresh’ behind the artist, and this was influences by ‘Vibe magazine as they have the same thing, and this influenced us because we want the readers to recognise the magazine even if its full name is not on display so it will make is look like a powerful and a confident magazine. The decision to have a close up shot was made by looking at ‘GQ’ magazines as they have a lot of covers where its mainly a close up shot, so this influenced us because they are a successful magazine and they know what they are doing.

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Contents PageThe first decision we made for the contents page was to have the word ‘Contents’ at the top of the page but we decided not to have the whole word put together, and this was influenced by ‘Vibe’ Magazine as we came across a contents page from their magazine and this made us want to put it in our magazine, we think this will make our magazine look unique and creative, we were also influenced by ‘Vibe’ for the ‘F’ on the left side of the page, the ‘F’ is the first letter of our magazine name which is ‘Fresh’ this will remind the reader what magazine they are reading.

I will add a picture of my artist on the left side of the magazine to remind the reader who the main article will be about. I will add a couple of features to inform the reader what they will be reading about. And finally I will add an authors note at the bottom right of the magazine to thank the reader for reading the magazine and ti also inform them about a couple things that will be inside of the magazine.

Double Spread Page For the double spread page we all came to a decision to do one side with a picture and another page with the article about the artist, we cam to this decision because of our target audience and because they are a young target audience we don’t want to bore them with a lot of writing, so we only had one page with writing, and the other page is a picture of the artist with an influential quote that the artist will say in the article and this will make the reader want to read it and find out why the quote was said

For the article page I will have the first letter of the artist’s name in the middle of the page and this was influenced by one of Jay Z’s magazine articles and it has a ‘J’ in the middle of the article and this made me interested and I thought the readers would find this interesting and it would also remind them who they are reading about. I decided to start the article with a quote to make the reader want to know what had being going on with the artist. I didn’t draw this in the draft but I will have another quite halfway through the article to make it visually interesting.