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Khadijah Green
Candidate Number: 8114
Centre Number: 16829

Hello, this is my blog where you will be able to see the different stages that I have done to construct my magazine. This includes my front cover, contents page, double page spread, preliminary task with front cover and contents page and the planning of how I thought of the ideas to make the magazine.

Final Product

This is my front cover of the magazine. This took me the longest amount of time to make out of all the other pages. This was mainly due to the fact that I was having a lot of trouble placing a background onto the page. I had placed the centre image and mostly all of the text at the start then left the background till last to do as I wanted to see which colour would suit the text best. Every time I tried to insert a background the colour kept on clashing with the image.It was making the image turn lighter and distorted. So after 2 hours of attempting to insert a background my friend tried to help me and we found a solution by copying the image, deleting it off the page, then inserting the background and then pasting the image back onto page. I was not satisfied with the colour afterwards because it was a dark cherry pink and you could not read the text clearly. So I tried to change it but photoshop would only let me go to lighter pinks.I changed it to a very light pink that was hardly noticeable and decided I wanted another colour. In the end I used the gradient tool to make the left hand side darker than the right which I thought was a better look.

I think this updated contents page is a lot better than the one I had before. This improved contents page definitely has a lot more design and the use of more images has made the page look more exciting. Also the attention is not focused so much on the one girl now, adding the picture of another artist makes the magazine look like it has more contents inside it rather than it just being focused on my main artist.

I found doing my double page spread a lot easier than my front cover and contents page as I did this page last so I was more used to using photoshop. I took the idea of having a big 'C' from one of Q's double page spreads.

Contents So Far..

This is a print screen of my contents page so far. I have just cut out the image and placed it onto the page, added a background using the gradient tool and added these green shapes in there to make it look more funky. Somehow I think this page looks quite boring and dull compared to my front page. I did want to have a pink and white background to make the page more colorful but pink and red clash so they wouldn't look good together. I need to think of some more ideas to make this page look more interesting.

In the end, I had decided to choose this image because I thought it was more of an eye catching image and I was browsing through some other music magazines on the Internet and quite a lot of the images on the front cover was similar to this picture I had taken.
I have started making the front cover, so this is a rough idea of what it is going to look like.
I thought this image would have been a good image for the front cover because it has a similiar layout to the 'Glamour' magazine above it.

My Planned Questions

In my double page spread, I will be doing a question and answer interview with my solo R'n'B artist 'Chanelle Rose'. I will be asking her questions like:
Q: Chanelle, what a pleasure it is to finally meet you. What have you been getting up to for the past 6 months?
A: Thank you its an honour to be here right now. Well I've just been working on my new album 'Sweet Like Roses' for the past few months. I've just been in the studio mixing the music trying to find all the right sounds.

Q: So we hear things between you and Ramelle Ramone have been getting a bit juicy... care to fill us in?
A: Well. I don't like to kiss and tell but we have admitted that we have feelings for each other. But as you can see I'm a hardworking woman so my music comes first.

Q: That should be a real sweet album, would you like to tell us when its out?
A: Only because this is my favourite magazine; I can tell you that the album will officially be out on the 18th of December.

Q: Who inspired your style of music?
A:  A lot of artists like Alicia Keys, Michael Jackson and Mariah Carey inspire me, but I think my Aunty was a huge influence as she used to play the piano very often when I was younger. Sometimes we would write a few songs together and play them to my mum. As I got older I started listening to different genres of music and later established my own style.

Q: Who would you say is your music icon?
A: I have always adored Rihianna. I love her inspiration for music, her style and how beautiful she is.

Q: What are your plans for the future?
A: I Hope to be going on tour for the new album

Q: Thanks for speaking to us Chanelle, we hope to hear from you soon
A: Thanks for having me, I hope to be back

Magazine Images

These are a few images that I have taken of my model.  We tried to do various different poses and shots so that at the end I could choose the best looking photo. We experimented with different facial expressions and stances so that we could get some decent looking pictures.

I really liked this one here on the left as I thought that it would have suited my magazine name 'Xplicit' because it looks as though she has a lot of attitude and the word 'Xplicit' is associated with forbidden and adult themes.