Contents page The picture on the top left side is taken from an very low angle

emphasizing the bad-boy impression. The bottom left picture is taken from a tilted eye level angle where the

subject is located slightly more to the left but is challenging his position in the photo by leaning forward. The bend in his body is changing where the water strip “hits” his body.

The top middle image is taken from an high angle, centring the people in the picture more together even if their not standing side by side. Another thing connecting them is that there is no complete separation between the to subjects.

The photo in middle on the bottom is again with slightly a high angle. This will give the reader an idea that even if she is the editor, she is still equal to her readers as well as showing that her readers also have a say about the magazine.

The top right picture is monochromatic, it is an mid shot, taken from an eye level angle. The subject is located in the middle of the image and a road going though the photo in the background.

The bottom right picture is a long shot of landscape with a man centred in the middle. He is bowing is head to the see, so he looks headless.

Front Cover The photograph is a mid shot, taken from an high angle. The subject is looking

directly into the camera with a confrontation gaze. What I did to challenge the shoot, is to make the person in the picture have her chin slightly pulled towards her neck so it would create a more intense look as well as her eyes are looking slightly upwards and directly at us with a powerful but mysterious expression. That the picture is taken from an high angle also makes the subject look 3D.

Double page spread

I wanted my dps to be similar to the NME –

where a photo of the subject is using the whole

left side. Therefore I needed the subject in my

pictures to use a wide space so she would be

able to fill the left page as much as possible.

I have challenged the conventions in my

mise-en-scene by having all the shots for

the contents page taken outside and

with landscape in them, which is quite

unusual for a music magazine. As well as

all the photos are posed – non is taken

live which also is unusual. E.g. from

concerts and live performances.

For my front cover I have used typical slogans for the

cover lines such as exclusive, “Must have albums” and

festival reviews. And in the under text of these cover

lines I have tried to create excitement by using rhyme

and by having alliteration.

On my contents page I have used a lot

of metaphors to describe the picture.

I have tried to use words like; glory,

sensational, funfunfun to create

excitement for the reader.

The headline for my dps, “que sera sera” is a Spanish saying that means whatever will be, will be. I though that when my audience saw the headline they would want to know what it means and what then the text is about.

To create interest for the reader the article starts with a short index of what you will find out by reading further. As well as I made the text more exciting to read by not writing directly the meaning. Instead for writing “everybody in America loves her” I have written about her having “America at her feet”.

I have also added some quotes where one is

located besides a picture of her lips as if she

was saying the quote, and the other over her

head as if she was thinking it.

The fonts on the front cover is mainly the same as the two cover lines have the same font on the headline and on the under text. For the mast head I used a very simple font and placed the letters close so it would be like the magazines logo as well as mast head. Like Q’s and I.D’s logo.

I have used around 11 fonts for my contents page. This is because I have tried to match each fonts cover line and under text to each of the image, to create a reflection from the picture to the text.

The mast head for my dps article is in a bold helvetica in a big size making it easy to see. The article has the same arial font going though it – the index is made in a bold arial and the

first letter from the main article is written with Blackmoor

LET which is elevate the alliteration to the index.

For my front cover and second dps I have used a lot of natural colours which is quite unusual for music magazines. But for my contents page and first dps I have used colour like black, white and red which is more usual colours for a music magazine.

As my magazine is an Indie pop/rock magazine, I would use a mix of the colour that I associate with Indie.

Though out all my pages I have a dominant use

of columns – which is very common in all

magazines but is more likely to be better

structured in magazines like Q. The columns are especially

emphasized on contents page,

because of the black lines

separating the different columns.