Creating my magazine article

This is a plan of what I want my article to look like.

I have kept the plan quite simple and easy but it will hopefully look effective.

To keep the house style going, I have kept the same background colour and font colours.

I have also kept similar images to my front cover.

I am still using images of the same person (P!nk) as that is my featured artist and that is who the article is about.






















I decided to smile on these pictures even though on the cover and contents page the face expressions are quite serious. I made the article photos slightly different as the article is revealing more about P!nk and letting the reader into more of her life and to know what is underneathe the "attitude" image. The smiling image lets you know who the real P!nk is underneath all of the media.


I decided to use the 1st image as my main image for the article as I think the other two photos don't look like they would be used in a magazine as they are too laid back and normal. The 1st photo still has a sense of seriousness in the face expression but only slightly.

I manipulated the photograph on photoshop by altering the contrast to make it brighter and I cut around it for my article page.



















I decided to put P!nk's "trademark logo" at the top of the page so as soon as the reader turns the page they are aware of who the article is about. It also adds to my house style by using the same logo throughout the magazine.

I also put the main image directly underneath the trademark for the same effect.



I think this works well as it has a large impact when you turn the page because of the colour intensity as the image is quite bright.

Also, the artist that is featured usualy has a medium close up image of themselves on the page as when I looked at examples this is what they tended to do.

I also used two smaller pictures on my article page to look like photo booth pictures to add a bit of fun to the page.

I made these photos more laid back and casual to give the impression of a photo booth style.
I manipulated these photos slightly on photoshop to make them brighter.

I put white boxes underneath them to make them look more like little photo booth images. I also moved one of the images to become slanted to make it look like they had been casually placed there.







For the font of the article, I used the same font as the cover and contents page to continue the house style of my magazine.
I used black font for the questions asked in the interview with "P!nk" and pink font for "P!nk's" answers.
I used the exact same colour font as the trademark I created for P!nk as it matches the whole "P!nk image"
The black font colour of the questions matches the colour of the image as the necklace of "P!nk" is black and the top she is wearing is pink which also mathces with the pink font.
Fot writing the actual article, I tried to make the style of answers quite chatty as if P!nk were really talking to someone.

I placed my questions and answewrs in two colums as this is usualy the format in magazines of the text when an article is shown.
I used questions such as
"Did you feel like there was loads of pressure to act a certain way when you were in your teens?"
as this question is directly aimed at teenagers which would interest my target audience. Also, having a well

known celebrity talk about things that she has experienced that normal teenage girls may be experiencing is good as they would be interested to read it and may be happy that someone they look up to also experienced these things.
I made the answers to the question quite detailed as if she were really talking to someone. I am really pleased with my written article as I think my made up answers as "P!nk" are quite realistic.

This is my finnished article which I am really pleased with as I think it looks quite realistic.

I put the main section of blurb at the top in the middle of the double page spread to make it look like there is a real split where the staples are usualy placed in a magazine.

I think the boxed quotes next to the image work well and it also keeps the house style going by boxing the text.
The fact that the quotes are placed right next to the image signify that that is who is saying the quotes.

I drew a line down the centre of the page and then used the blur tool to blur it to make it look like the crease in the middle of a magazine to make it look more realistic.