Second Double Page Spread

This is my second draft for my double page spread. Originally I did want to use just a plain white background so that it would link in with my contents page, however when reviewing my past drafts I felt like it lacked colour and I really wanted to try and show the pop genre in this double page spread. Even though this idea is disagreeing with what I have stated before how I wanted to challenge the pop conventions but I felt like I was trying to be to different and my target audience quoted that they "didn't understand what I was trying to achieve". Therefore I thought that I should bring my double page spread almost back to the traditional pop music magazine look by using a plain block purple background which still linked with my colour scheme of white, black and purple.

However for my next draft I think that I am not going to use such a block colour and maybe add in a purple effect as I think that it is too harsh and doesn't look sophisticated enough. 

I decided to keep in the smaller pictures of my model at the top of the pages as when asking my peers they liked the effect it created however they disliked the three small black lines underneath in my past draft as again they didn't like the effect and felt like it confused them and almost distracted them from the artist. But in this draft I have added in more smaller pictures which was my main aim in this draft as previously discuss in my last blog post. 

In my past draft I felt like something was missing from the first page so I decided to add in some advertisement but still connected it back to my artist by stating that the reader could "win concert tickets" which I thought was a good way in showcasing the artist further. This advertisement will not just help the artist in their career but also entice my reader in buying my magazine as well. I feel like this was a good marketing technique I would help my magazine sell more. When asking for peoples opinions they liked how I included this into my magazine very subtly but also made it noticeable at the same time. They appreciated that it did not take away from the article itself. However in my focus group when comparing both my first draft and this one they liked the 'faded Lelia' feature previously stated in my first double page spread. The audience liked that aspect so in my next draft I am going to try and incorporate it in. 

Furthermore I chose to create an effect which previously I had not tried which was to use the same main image of Lelia, but place one underneath the other and then flip it round. I chose to do this effect as I thought that was quite original and challenged the conventions of the pop magazines as they mostly use one main image. So using two just showcases Lelia even more and creates this "overall effect that is quite interesting" which one of my peers stated. I did this as as I have said previously that I wanted to keep to the traditional pop double page spread I still wanted to show originality to it.