Final Double Page Spread

This is my final double page spread for my magazine. After my past two drafts I have kept in mind what I wanted to change and also my peers feedback. The first thing I want to change was the background. After looking at my previous draft I didn't like the purple block colour as I felt like it just didn't look right as it seemed to bold and I wanted it to be more subtle and let the pictures of my artist stand out the most and be the main feature which is a common theme throughout my magazine. I chose white as it is a subtle colour and it also follows through with my colour scheme as well.

The colour scheme has stuck throughout this issue which is purple, white and pink. As I have exclaimed in previous blogposts I chose these colours as they help to relate to what I wanted my magazine to represent being sophisticated and mature yet fun and energetic at the same time. I decided to ask even more pink to my final design as I felt that it did lack in previous drafts and also it complements the pink leather jacket the model is wearing. When asking my peers if they liked my colour scheme they stated how they thought "it overall makes up your magazine". They like how the colour scheme almost wraps up my magazine. 

Also I changed the text within the circle after the second paragraph from "The tragic split" to "They hate me" as I felt like that would make the audience more attracted and feel more entice to find out who hates her and just creates more questions by the reader and just makes them want to read on more and find out this "exclusive" information. 

In my past drafts I added in a title of some sort. My first draft stated "She's Back!" and my second "SHE RETURNS BIGGER & BETTER". However I felt like this draft didn't need a title as when I added one in I felt like it just became too clustered on the page I it took the subtleness away. Therefore I decided to make the purple line thicker and add in more little photos of my model on to the page as a way of balancing it out. I think by adding even more photos it added to the whole effect which my peers said that they wanted more of from my previous draft. 

Furthermore as previously stated in my last blog post I said that I was going to still include the marketing technique by providing my audience to "win concert tickets" to see my artist. This is good to entice my audience and make them feel like they have a chance to see on of their favourite artist. This technique helps to involve and incorporate my audience into my magazine so they feel apart of it and that my magazine cares for their interests and wants to impress them. This technique also (like I have state before) involves my target audience that might be placed into the certain CD2E category and whom might not be able to afford concert tickets, so it helps to broaden my audience and again include everyone. Make more people interested into buying my magazine. 

However I had to move the competition slip to the right page and to the bottom right-hand corner as when I thought that it didn't look right amongst the rest of the article as it clashed and my focus group said that they didn't know what to read first, the article or the competition. They said that it confused them and that they wanted them to become separate. When taking this into consideration I resulted in placing it onto the next page where it still made the audience notice it and make them look at that first, then read the article.