Stages of Production - Drafts/Messing.

This is the first draft i did for my double page. I created my mast head in paint, i thought that i could continue the colour scheme from the front page through to the double page spread but then that could suggest again that the magazine is some sort of special edition but i didn't really want that. But i liked the mast head so i thought that i would try it, also the it looks quite rock chick with the rough edges around the masthead and also the girls are wearing black, I'm not sure yet if that's the look I'm going for. I placed my image that i had chosen on the left hand side just to try it.I then wrote up part of my interview and placed in on the page more towards the right hand side but i did just put it on there randomly so i could see the right size and which font would look better etc. I have a title above my interview which says 'The O'Neill Sista's Exclusive' i thought this was relevant to open the interview, because my masthead says 'Fame And Fortune' i choose this because i thought that could be what the interview is sort of about, their rise to fame. I think that it looks really plain, i know that it obviously isn't completed but i know that i need more colour, or need to position things differently.

 This is the second draft. I haven't changed much, all I've done is change the position of things, i decided to try the image on the right hand side, i wanted to see which looked better. I think that because the text starts on the left it does look better that it then follows for the image to be on right as you come to the end of the interview.

Another draft. I still haven't changed anything dramatically, i just changed the mast head because like i said on the first draft i don't want a continues colour scheme through out the magazine. I thought i could make it a bit more girly, so i decided to add some pink in. I don't think the mast head is big enough, and it could maybe be a bit too long. Looking at it, i don't like where its positioned either. I just don't think that it looks right. The text which is the interview still hasn't changed because i know what I'm doing with that,I just need to finish it off. I'm just concentrating at getting the layout sorted.

I now have started thinking about space and positioning so i added boxes and labeled them 'Tagline' and 'Interview' so i knew what i was doing. I have changed the masthead, i have made it a bit bigger and changed the font. I wanted it to stand out. . Also again i think that the mast head doesn't look right. I will have to change some things.

Instead of changing little things a bit at a time, i decided to complete one and then see if i liked it and see if there were any problems or changes that needed to be made. I have now shortened the mast head down to just 'O'Neill Sista's' because i added a tag line so i didn't really need to say much in the mast head. In the tag line i just basically said an interview with the O'Neill Sista's and about their album. I also added some pink in there on the words that i thought were important. In the interview i wrote, i choose to ask questions about being sisters and there private life and obviously there music. I wanted to mix it up a bit rather than just having it all about music. I also saw in some of my research that between questions they add a quote from what the interviewer had said so i choose to put a quote in. Also at the bottom of the page, i added a little bit more text saying about the O'Neill Sista's album. I didn't want to have too much white space so i decided to fill it in with that information, also i think it is relevant it wasn't just added randomly.I like this draft but i still don't think that it is finished. I think that it still looks plain and boring so i might have to add some more colour to it.

I have now added so more pink into the interview, where the quotes are i made them pink because i think that they are important. Also it breaks all the black text down by having the little bits in there. In the  text i have at the bottom of the page i added some pink in there also, i thought highlighting particular words like i did in the tag line looks good. The word album and the date is now pink. I really think that makes it look so much better. I then added some more text to the right hand side of the image at the bottom to basically say there are more images available. I did this because, i didn't want to have more images on the page because i like the idea of just having one main one, but then i thought it looks a bit stupid not having any other images so to make it look like there was an photo shoot i wrote that the images are available on the website. I think that is good for getting people to go on the website as well of giving them the choice whether they want to look at the images of the O'Neill Sista's.