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THE MASTHEAD“YourTunes” can be interpreted a

number of ways. Originally I had named it “ForTunes” so then it would be fortunes as in destiny and fate, and then it would also come across as a magazine for music tunes. You could also interlink it with iTunes as well. Maybe the font of my masthead isn’t like most magazines, a normal, simple font; however this is what makes my magazine different. The masthead isn’t too girly, which is what my magazine is trying to represent. It’s not supposed to be too girly but the audience of girls is identifiable. However, it does follow the colour scheme of my magazine.

MISE EN SCENE

The mise en scene of my pictures is not how I imagined it would be from the start however I think it has worked out well. Admittedly when I was taking the picture, although I had sufficient light while taking the pictures, I didn’t think it was bright enough. I edited it on picnik.com and added the effect “Boost”. This gave Jade’s skin a yellow tint which was not intended but I think that it brings out her facial features such as her eyebrows and smile. I thought the dress was appropriate because it’s plain and simple, not too busy.

MISE EN SCENE (CONTINUED)

Her facial expressions are warming and welcome, giving off a friendly vibe to readers which then also describe one of her characteristics. In terms of makeup we tried to keep it as natural as possible but added the glitter on her eyes. This is also another girl thing because girls love glitter. The picture in which she’s posing with a microphone gives off the feeling that she enjoys being a singer because she’s smiling and happy. The picture with the rose is purely showing her affectionate side, whether it tells you she’s looking for love or that she’s simply a loving person herself. The picture of Jade in the sunglasses shows the sassy side that all pop stars have. For my pictures I had a roll of white paper to give it a simple, not too busy background and when I “Auto Fixed” it on picnik.com for an unknown reason it turned aqua which I thought was quite pretty.

TEXT, FONT AND STYLE

For the font throughout, I used a font on fireworks called Xpress SF. I chose this one as I was flicking through the different fonts because it wasn’t too boring like Times New Roman or too weird like Parchment which you can hardly read. Personally, if I saw a whole article in Times New Roman I wouldn’t read it because it would give off the feeling that the information was probably boring to someone like me, let alone the font. I thought Xpress SF gave it a certain kick.

WRITTEN CONTENT

On the double page spread I believe that I did follow the usual conventions of a magazine, giving an introduction to Jade as an artist at first and the language that I used was not too formal, using words such as “totally” and “feisty”. I didn’t use too many big words that maybe girls from 11 would not understand. I asked Jade about her music career and what she had planned for the next step in the future. All the questions were related to her and her career whether it is what inspired her or what she would have done if she wasn’t what she was today. However the last question I included was mainly to encourage young girls and inspire them. The language I used in the Editor’s Note was more on a personal level, involving them by using “you”. This language was definitely informal, using words such as “juicy”, “amazing” and “fantastic”.

WRITTEN CONTENT (CONTINUED)

GENREMy music magazine

genre is pop. This is shown through the bright colours where as if it was rock, it would be more low key colours such as red, black and white. I used celebrities that revolve round the pop world, Adele, Katy Perry and Ben Howard.

Rock Pop

LAYOUT

The masthead follows the conventions of a usual music magazine, at the very top of the cover, big and bold. The main cover line about Jade is bigger than the other cover lines to display that this was the main article. I used a tiny little stand first on the cover after the main cover line title including a quote from the interview I did.

CONTENTS PAGEMy music magazine features not only music but fashion

and gossip too. I know for a fact that fashion and gossip are mostly always revolved around

celebrities from the music/film/TV industry, and I chose to use this to my advantage by including pages of gossip and fashion to do with musical

celebrities, for example the Katy Perry and Russell Brand split up is relevant because Katy produces

pop music. Also the Selena Gomez fashion page is a page of fashion to do with a pop star. Teenage girls look at pictures of musical celebrities or hear gossip

about them and aspire to be like their idols. Embarrassing Encounters and Your Letters were

purely for the enjoyment of the audience, as is the Horoscopes page. Your Letters allows the readers to

write in maybe with pictures of them with celebrities and any other opinions on the music

industry and its celebrities. I don’t know any magazine that does not offer at least one prize for a

competition entry, or maybe a little crossword or quiz in case they get bored.