Me and Lauren did a celebrity magazine called 'Get Weird!' which is mainly aimed at teenage girls.
For the cover we did not want to use a lot of girlish colours, teenage girls usually find that off putting and a bit childish. Also, we wanted this to come across as a magazine that boys could read too, even though they're not our main target audience.
The front cover of the magazine reflects the warmth of the autumn colours orange and red, which then goes over to the darker and colder blue, just like when autumn goes over to winter. This is after all the october issue (16 issues per year, one every month and an extra for 'easter special', 'start of summer', 'back to school' and a 'christmas special')
We used bright colours on dark background, as well as flashy red on yellow background to contrast the text from the background, making the text to stand out and draw the attention of the possible buyers to the content inside. By adding a few 'pointy-edged advertise stars' we could also draw attention to the potential buyers, with competitions and posters for those interested.
For our dubble page spread we decided to do an interview with the band 'The Strays'. The background is orange, like the front page partly was, to keep continuity within the magazine, and the contrasting green title stands out without being too bright and not clashing against the background. On the bottom left page we added a box- green to match the title- with a little extra information.
In the two top corners we added the Band's logo, and to keep the balance on the pages we added it on both sides of the title.
The main text is black as we tried to make it seem quite simple and not to bright with colour clashing, we thought the same for the preamble but made it white to easily be separated from the main text. and draw attention. We added two quotations in orange to stand out from the rest of the text, to draw the attention, without standing out too much from the background. Just like a real magazine we've got italic text under the big image, with the names of the band members listed, as well as numbered pages.
For our single page spread we chose to write an article about an uprising celebrity- a new blogger. Just as the double page spread we wanted to keep the background connected to the one on the cover, making it transparent with two colours. The pink at the top reflects the colour of the text box on the cover stating "A new star is on the rise!" which refers to this article, while the blue reflects the blue in the middle of the cover page, though this blue is a lot lighter and more welcoming than the dark cover one. The ping going over to light blue also draws a paralell to the content in the article, stating the celebrity in question is a big figure head in the LGBTQ+ community, breaking the gender steriotypes where pink is acociated whith girls and blue with boys, and the light purple in the middle (which can hardly be seen) is associated with homosexiality.
The title is white and thus stands out from the rest of the page, but is surrounded by a blue colour as the bottom background colour.
In the bottom right corner we brought back another 'pointy-edged advertise star' as on the front cover to draw attention to the reader, advertising a competition linked to the celebrity in the article,the 'pointy-edged advertise star' is outlined with white, and has also got some shading, making it stand out even more to the background without looking weird.
I might just add that the reason why the presentation wasn't as detailed as this was that I personally got a bit stressed in class, I usually prefer not to be the first one presenting.I also feel like it's easier to present if I can change the photos I'm talking about myself, in my own time, otherwise I almost got a bit interrupted in the middle of trying to get my point across.
