Article ideas and opening paragraph

I expect the article to focus on the cover stars background, taste for fame as well as reviewing her first album as a fresh new rock star. Some quotes that I'd like to include might be:

"My identity is unique, I want to begin a new vision of Rock"

"From this album comes a lot of personal experience, and the key to escape it"

"This music creates a sanctuary, well, a load one, it's not for the weak that's for certain"

" Love is individual and from death it becomes incredibly strong."

"This is not romantic, it's life"

As an artist, she is called 'Love and Death' or 'LD', so these initials could relate to her real name.

My opening paragraph to my article might begin like the following:

The bouquet blooms to a brand new brand of Rock, this is what Love and Death (Lauren Dale) aims for with her new album 'Loath'. In front of us sits a tiny girl amongst the cloud of stars with a lot of ambition who expects her music to stand out, first impressions, forget the above. Head to toe she dresses like a typical teen, recently risen from her intensely inspiring rest whilst holding a comforting hot drink to still her nerves. Once settled, Dale repeated how nervous and tired she is until the first sip of tea began her first response, "Now don't get the idea that my music is typical, my identity is totally unique and at the same time, I think it'll start a new vision of rock music" ending with an excited smile. No this was not an answer, she chose to begin the interview this way, this is the start to the interview:

Drafting and planning

One aspect I like to use for my magazine cover is how the photo overlays the masthead allowing it to stand out therefore drawing the attention to the audience.

Refering to my draft, I used my own images to construct my magazine as a first plan. The aspects I perticularly like is the use of large numbers and a large contents heading.

Experementing with different fonts, I decided to give the large page number a rather fancy type font, inspired by Q magazine.

The 'colour burn' effect on the text I liked but the clarity is poor so this effect might be used somewhere else.

By using a paint brush, I produced some effects on the text to enhance the rock and powerful side of the magazine. It also makes the contents more interesting and appealing with these suttle changes.

Front cover plan

This is a rough layout of the way I wish my magazine front cover to appear.

Magazine photo's

These are various photo's which I wish to base my magazine on, some will be used but some won't. All photo's consist of a white background which works well with the colour scheme of my magazine as well as to emphasise the girls's features.

By the use of red flowers which emphasises the red in her hair, it also proclaims love, beauty or danger. Her turquoise top is a complementary colour to red which highlights the roses. Due to her hair flowing across the background represents the movement of music and her creative imagination; like a tree branching ideas. With her eyes closed may resemble death because of the inclusion of roses, or it could resemble pease; this may resemble her genre of music.

Simularly to the previous photo, the medium close up provides emphasis to the girls emotions, especially this time when she opens her eyes and uses direct address to the camera which connects her to the audience. Though death may not link perticularly in this photo, but maybe life; this could reflect on the music she performs. 

A causual long shot which shows her full clothing of a black and green. This helps the firy red hair to stand out but also with the use of direct address with her smiley eyes may provide a positive connection to the audience; this works well with the 'pop' side to the magazine.

Simularly to the previous photo but instead the camera takes a mid-shot which allows the attention to focus on her face, top and arms.

A medium close up displays her profile with her mouth opened slightly as if she is singing, this links with the music element to the magazine.

The floral prop again highlights the hair as well as symbolising beauty or, through the red colour, danger and love. This is a cute image which references to a previous image I look at of 'Katy Perry' though this might not be used for the magazine.

This image provides a rather heroic side as if the flowers used are like a sword. Also, the lack of smiling and a rather intence look in the eyes could deliver another message to the audience, a dangerous side.

This time the girl looks away from the camera as if to think or daydream which could reflect on what her music does. Again, flowers are used which could mimic a microphone, but, as roses represent, a love element is used again.

Photoshoot organisation

I plan to take my photos against a blank white background therefore the text and the coverstar will stand out when I begin to edit the magazine. Also, the model I chosen has an appearence of a rock star due to the colours in her hair and dark make up. I hope for her to wear blue which'll also help her to stand out against the black, white and red house colours. She'll be holding flowers as props in the photo's which will represent her beauty and a romantic touch. However, I also plan to have an image of her lying down and holding a bunch of flowers which may represent death and an enchanting effect.

Contents page draft

By drafting 2 different contents pages, I realised that structuring the contents in collumns and using a large image is the way I'd like to layout my page. These pieces where inspired by Empire magazine and Q magazine contents pages.

What I liked about them is the large numbers which I'll will include in my own magazine. The sketches help me to understand the types of images I might include into the contents once I take my own photo's and the font for the large text and headings may be simular to the writing through the simplisity of the font as well as the lettering being clear and bold.