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Double Page Spread

This is the double page spread (DPS) for my music magazine 'FABULOUS'. It is an interview with the winner of last weeks competition, May Yoneda who won the prize, singing lessons with High School Musical's vocal coach. I think that the colours used would really appeal to my target audience as pink is the colour associated with the female gender. I think i have laid out the page well, however i think to improve this i would definetly add more images perhaps showing different stages of the winner's day so that the DPS appeals more to the reader. Because the reader is of a young age i feel that perhaps there is too much text on the page for them to be attracted to.
However i do feel the colours used to seperate the text work really well, and the enlarged quote written over the main image also works really well. I think this because it is what immediately draws the reader in, making them want to read more of this article/interview.
The language i decided to use in the interview is quite casual as the age of readers that would be reading this would not use formal and sophisticated language which they would perhaps associate with boring. The language used for May Yoneda i made it seem like she was of a young age, i took phrases and words that my younger sister uses which makes the interview seem much more realistic and therefore much easier for the reader to understand and associate with.

Contents Page

This is my contents page for my music magazine, i decided to use another image of the competition winner (May Yoneda) because she is around the age that the majority of the readers would be therefore they would find it alot easier to relate to, also it may attract their attention and make them want to read on because they may feel that they have a chance to end up in the same position as she did.
I used the colour pink again because it will attract the readers attention, and will make the magazine more appealing to them.
I used a technique used in many magazines for the small introduction section, by writing welcome in a large handwritten font (which immediately draws in attention), and then a small paragraph written by the editor introducing the reader to the magazine and what it consists of. This gives the contents a much more casual look, which would appeal to the reader alot more than if it had a very formal and plain feel to it.
I do however feel that more images could develop this page further and attract even more attention. I think a good way to do this would have been to put an image that relates to that section of the magazine by every small headline which would perhaps make the reader more intrigued to read on.

Front Cover

This is the front cover of my music magazine, which i feel could be improved the most. I think the use of colour and font is very good, and has all the aspects needed to attract my target audience. However i do feel there is something missing that doesn't give it a proffesional look. I think that this could be because of the fact that the images used are not the actual characters from High School Musical. However here is the original front cover i created that i feel is a whole lot better and definetly has the right style and front cover look to attract my target audience.
I had to recreate my original cover and although i think i managed to capture the original images quite well, these were what added the proffesional look to my front cover. Therefore i decided to show both front covers produced to show what i would like my final outcome to look like when the magazine would be published.
I think that the layout of my magazine cover works really well in drawing in the readers attention. The dominant image is Zac Efron who is of course the main character of High School Musical, which to my target audience would be immediately recognisable and would definetly catch their eye.
The surrounding images are of the other main characters which would also be immediately recognised, i decided to use images of the characters (Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel) not facing the camera directly because this gives the images a more realistic effect, and stops the images from looking posed and rather like they were taken from real life.
I decided not to use a plain white background because the pink tint stops it from looking unproffesional and also adds enough colour without the background dominating the other images and text in the cover i have produced.

Hi, my name is Emmy Yoneda and the name of my music magazine is 'fabulous.' My target audience is from the ages of 8 to 14 and is aimed at a the young female audience. My magazine has a 'High School Musical' theme and is a spin off of the 'High School Musical' production.