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Final Main Article

I decided to go with a simplistic article background straight off the bat when I took this picture. The picture is of my main artist in the park playing the guitar. It makes him look natural. The clothes he is wearing look casual suggesting he's like everyone else, not a celebrity but just a normal person giving the reader a sense of approachability. The text itself is in size 11 in the font Britannic Bold which is the same font I've used for everything else which keeps everything consistant and not confuse the reader.
Making the main artist the centre of the page makes him the most important thing and it draws the readers eyes towards him.
The floating quote was added to have audiences easily relate to him because they may feel that music is their life too.
The title of the article is called "Strings, Strum and Soul." the alliteration instantly hooks the readers making it easily memorable. Strings standing for the strings of the guitar, Strum standing for the actual playing of the guitar, and Soul for the actually genre he plays or it could be that playing his music affects him spirtually.
The actual font has a black outline around it so it doesn't melt to the background and look tacky.
The questions are in subheadings which are above every answer to section each text. I felt it was important to use the right register so my audience don't become to overwhelmed with everything on the page. I had to keep it simple and sophisticated and I believe I've done this with the black shadowing around the text. When writing the article I had to make sure I wasn't using slang or colloquialisms because my target audience are of a matue age range so it is mostly all in standard english with some exceptions because I'm still trying to target younger people too.

Preliminary Task

This is the front cover for my preliminary task. The task was to design a magazine front cover and contents page for our school - a school magazine. The one thing I wanted to keep consistant in my magazines was the colour scheme. My scheme was yellow(gold), black and white. These colours are simple and I think the gold stands out making the magazine appealing. The black background looks sophisticated so I decided to add a a yellow pattern to the back of the main image to make it more snazzy and funky for the readers as my target audience are secondary school students who prefer colour and pictures to long pieces of text.
My main image is a picture of myself. I didn't bother about the main image to much though I believe I should chosen a better costume as the blue and yellow colour scheme don't really go together. However using a student as the main image was a way to appeal to my audience as they could relate to the student because he is like them.
I made the majority of my text big and easy to read because my target audience are young and want things to catch thier attention. My cell lines included subjects that would appeal to the reader because they would easily be able to relate to it - e.g. Lockers or the school canteen.
The Masthead is big and chunky making it almost a masculine targeted magazine. The silver to black was a really effective technique because I think these colours are strong, bold and silver connotes slick and stylish attitude and most of the students in this school want to be like that.



The contents page is a little different as I didn't include a picture. I didn't include a picture because I wanted to appeal to not only years 7-11 but 6th formers too. 6th formers are still part of this school and don't want to bombared with all these pictures. Having no pictures makes it seem sophisticated so in a way it is subverting the stereotype.
I added a few effects to the text to make it stand out from the black background (e.g. Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Gradient Tool).

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