PHOTOSHOOT FOR COVER PAGE/DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

These two top photos are the final photos which I chose for my cover page and double page spread, but the other photos I took on a different photo shoot but I didn't like these so chose not to use them.

OTHER PHOTOSHOOTS - CONTACT SHEETS

This is my photo shoot for my magazine, here, I tried to get a different range of ideas and a lot of photos and then could choose the best quality ones and see which would work best with my photos.

After doing my first photo shoot, I found I had enough photos to work with but I did my double page spread photos in a separate shoot in a set location and black and white.

DOUBLE-PAGE SPREAD ARTICLE

After almost seven years together, The Chicks are no longer together. Saskia Tobiasen has said she can’t handle the arguing from the bands members and she isn’t enjoying making the music as it is causing too many arguments. They’ve had four numbers ones in the United Kingdom as well as topping the charts across Europe and America. Saskia Tobiasen says ‘I knew it wouldn’t last forever, but I never thought it’d be arguments which broke us up.’                                                              Over the past year, the group have become further apart and cracks have begun to show within the groups. The band has been acting as if everything is perfect to the public eye but this isn’t the case behind closed doors. The tour set up across the United Kingdom has been cancelled which was due to start in February 2013 with 20 venues selling out. The Chicks have said ‘people who have bought a ticket will be fully refunded; we thank our fans for all the support from the past six and a half years.’ Kaye, Alice and Saskia have said they will all stay in touch and close friends, but they are all going to have a break from each other and have some time to do their own things. Saskia says ‘it just got too hard. I didn’t want to lose two of my closest friends, which I would have done if I carried on involved in the Chicks.’ The Chicks all started off, in 2005, as Solo artists and begun their career on the famous television programme ‘Find our Stars’ in order to create a new girl band.             These three got chosen to create the next best girl band. They then went on to become inseparable and bonded straight away. All three of the girls wanted to enjoy making music and being with people who wanted this as well made them stronger. Towards the start of their career, they became very well known over the world, topping charts in more than 15 countries. Young girls became inspired by these and looked up towards The Chicks. Their third single sold out within just over two hours of it being released. The girls carried on getting closer as their music got bigger.                                                  During the last few years, the group have started to go towards their own things, meaning they haven’t got as much time to create their music. The group wanted to spend more time with friends and family rather than always being together, this meant they had to give up their commitment towards music in order to do this. Kaye and Alice have agreed with Saskia that the best thing for them to do is to have a few years apart and then maybe revisit the music industry in a few years but right now, they want some time apart but Saskia was the one who came up with this idea but she doesn’t want to lose her career in music. All she has wanted from a young age is to create music so in order for her to be happy and still be doing music is to go solo. She says ‘It will be hard after being with the girls so much throughout my music career, but I think I am ready to move on and create my own style and the girls are behind me the whole way.

EDIT YOUR PAGES ON THE COMPUTER

This is the start of my front cover, for this, I began by making the heading and made it a big size so it would cover the majority of the page and added a dropshadow to the photo.

This is my starting of the contents page, I made the title at first and added a slight dropshadow to make it stand out more and not look as flat on the page. I then inserted my photos into the page which I thought about using.

I then changed the pictures on the contents page and put them in a different layout.
Below here is my finished version of my first contents page. I didn't like this as there was too much space around each thing and the page didn't link well together.

This is the front cover progressed slightly. I inserted the picture and the main heading in the front cover which I added a slight dropshadow to the photo which made the heading stand out more.

This is my new version of my contents page, I redesigned it with a different layout. I used different pictures, and added a dropshadow to the title. Created a different colour for the page number and added a stroke around the photo so that it stood out from the main picture.

This is my contents page almost finished, which I then had added other photos too and page numbers above the photos, I then changed the font for the Editors Note so that it stood out slightly but didn't take the focus away from the pages.

This is my double page spread using quark, I inserted text boxes so that the article would fit into the boxes in coloumns, then linked them together so that the article would fit. To get the white text box below the heading, I inserted a text box and changed the opacity down slightly then wrote over it.

I then made a quote in red which stood out from the rest of the page, so it will draw us towards this and make people want to read into the article and what it's about.

This is my front cover which I started again. I inserted the photo and got that in the right place and then inserted a text box, making it red, wiuth the white font as the title. I then inserted a black text box above the title and photograph, as a banner. I also made the red font with the main cover story. I inserted text which made it white, and a barcode at the bottom right hand corner.

After doing this, I then added the rest of the text in which would be on the main page and a website address underneath the title.

Finally, I added the white text to the banner above the title.



AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

From the feedback given, the colours used in my magazine stand out but people want more colour on the page to create some contrast, this is what I've done since then and have slightly edited the subheadings so that the red is used more.
The cover star has good feddback and says it stands out and covers the majority of the page. This made me aware that the cover star and cover story was a main element of what people look at when analysising a cover page. It was useful to get feedback from the age range that I chose to aim my work at because it showed me what this age range look at.