Article draft

For my double-page spread I will feature an article in the form of an interview.
Here is a draft of the article which I’ve written.

Interviewer: Hi, this is Nicola from dirty digest, welcome, Anita and Livinisha! How are you today?
Anita: I’m alright thanks, a bit jetlagged but it’s alright.
Livinisha: Yeah, all good.
Interviewer: Great! Now I believe that there’s news that a new single is soon to be released by you two ladies, could you tell us a little more about it maybe?
Livinisha: Yeah, sure. The song, “$l34zy“,  itself, was written by myself and an extraordinarily talented friend of mine, Fernando Jenerez, whilst I was touring last year with my band on our second world tour. I was on the tour bus, somewhere in Minnesota I think, when Anita here came on the radio-
Anita: Oh how embarrassing!
Livinisha: -laughs- Her song, “Rain On Me”, that came on and as soon as it did, I instantly wanted her to collaborate with me, and I’d just finished writing “$l34zy“, so I thought it a perfect duet opportunity.
Anita: That was when you called me in the shower!
Interviewer: The shower? What happened?
Anita: Oh, I was just innocently taking a shower one morning in a hotel I was staying at in Chelsea when my manager, Antonio, started knocking like no tomorrow on the door shouting “LIVINISHA, LIVINISHA, ON THE PHONE, LIVINISHA’S ON THE PHONE! ANITA!”
Livinisha: -laughs-
Interviewer: Oh goodness! What did you do?
Anita: I did what anyone would do when they heard that the world’s biggest pop-icon was on the phone; I ran straight out the shower and grabbed the phone off Antonio- didn’t even hesitate to pick up a towel.
Livinisha: And it all really just fell into place from there!
Interviewer: Sounds interesting! Have you got any plans for the music video for “$l34zy” yet?
Livinisha: As of yet, we do have some. I envisioned the song being sung in underground bars around the lower-east side of New York, where I grew up and starting performing when I was about seventeen, so I really want the video to reflect that time in my life, as well as Anita playing a big role in it, too… I see her in some sort of leather outfit, a bit of a bad-ass.
Anita: Yeah!
Livinisha: It’s going to be the biggest video we’ve done yet, and I’m so glad to be working on it with my dear friend Anita here. Hopefully it’ll be released towards the end of March.
Interviewer: Can’t wait! Anita, what’s your plans for this year, aside from “$l34zy“?
Anita: Well this year I’m very excited about. My album just went platinum in November so I’m really pleased about that, and in May I’m starting an international tour spanning three continents, so I’m really very glad.
Interviewer: Ah, the tour! Will it be anything like the last one – spectacular, electrifying, risqué?
Anita: -laughs- All that and more, all that and more.
Interviewer: Excellent! Next up we’ve got some fan questions, you ready to answer them?
Anita & Livinisha: Sure!
Interviewer: Great! The first one’s from Alice in Queensland, Australia, and she wants to know what’s your favourite thing -past time, activity- that you like best to do when you’re not working?
Livinisha: I’m always working! But, whenever I’m not, I love to just go down to the bar, have a few drinks and a few laughs, and sing. It’s my life. Anita?
Anita: Me, I just love food. I’m always in the kitchen. I’m like mama chef to all my tour crew. They love it.
Interviewer: Have you any specialty dishes?
Anita: As a matter of fact I do! Recently I learnt how to make this gorgeous Italian chicken and mango salad, if I may say so myself, it’s divine!
Interviewer: Sounds it! Next question is from Jamie in Newcastle, England. He wants to know where you see yourselves in five years time.
Livinisha: Five years time… In five years time, I definitely want to have had at least a couple of new albums out, tours across the globe, and maybe start some new projects alongside some fashion brands. I’m finding that fashion is my new passion, alongside music. I’m really looking forward to the future of music, the future of Livinisha.
Interviewer: Fabulous! Anita?
Anita: Um… I don’t think I could keep up with her! In five years time, I guess I want to see the world, and be with my beautiful boyfriend. Anywhere with him beats anywhere else.
Interviewer: Aw. Our final question’s from Louis in San Francisco, USA, and he’d simply like to know; what is your pet peeve? What can’t you stand?
Anita: I cannot stand staples!
Livinisha: Staples?
Anita: Yes, staples! They just creep me out; everything is paperclipped in my world. All about the paperclips.
Interviewer: How interesting! And Livinisha?
Livinisha: Me, I guess… I just dislike frauds. Liars. I’ve met a fair few in my time and to be honest they’ve wasted a lot of it. I’m always looking for quality. If there’s not quality, there’s no Livinisha.
Interviewer: Good to hear! Well thank you both for coming in, hope the single and music video goes fabulously – I know it will – and we’ll look forward to seeing you soon!

You can purchase “$l34zy” from 25 February from all good retail stores as well as iTunes, Amazon and Play.com.
Tour dates and tickets for Anita and Livinisha can be found on dirtydigest.com/tours.

Draft of double page spread

To assist in my knowledge of what the appearance of my double page spread of my magazine may be like, I decided on creating a draft copy of it, so I could put the ideas in my head onto paper and see if my sketch designs from earlier were workable or not.
Below is the draft copy that I’ve made, as well as some annotations that explain my designs.

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To aid the designing process I asked my audience for their thoughts on my double page spread draft.
Here is what they had to say, powered creatively by Voki.

Draft of contents page

To help me understand what the contents page of my magazine may look like, I decided to make a draft copy of it, so I could properly formulate my ideas and see if my sketch designs from before worked well or not.
Below is the draft copy that I’ve made, as well as some annotations that explain my reasoning.

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I asked my audience for their thoughts on the draft copy of the contents page. Here are their reactions, powered interactively by Voki.

 

Draft of front page

To gain an understanding of what my front cover for my magazine could potentially look like, I decided to create a draft copy of it, so I could play around with my ideas and see if my previous sketch designs worked well or not.
Below is the draft copy that I’ve created, as well as some annotations explaining my choices.

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To get an understanding of what I could improve on this I asked my audience for their thoughts, presented here by interactive online tool, Voki.

Photographs

Subjects
I’ve asked my two friends Alice and Livi who I know very well to be the subjects for the photographs that I’m going to use in the production of my magazine. I chose them because I think that they suit my magazine’s genre and also as we’re close friends it’ll be easier for us to get a clearer and more casual shot – which is what I’m aiming for.

Photographs – unedited
These are just a few of the many photographs that I took, I haven’t uploaded all of them that I may use as we’d be here donkeys years.

Here is what my audience thought of the photographs, creatively powered by Voki.

Photographs – edited

After taking the photographs and looking through them analytically, I decided to edit them by cross process. I did this using the online editing tool, Picnik (like Photoshop). Here is what my photographs looked like post-editing.

Here is what my audience thought of the edited versions of the photographs, interactively powered by Voki.

Colour schemes

As I found out in my research, colour schemes are an important aspect in all magazines, especially music ones. So for my music magazine I decided to try out a range of colour schemes to see what colours complimented with each other. To do this I picked five different colours and compared them with each other as well as white. Below shows how I compared them.

After closely analysing my colour comparisons, I came to the conclusion that colour schemes 9 and 20 worked the best. To explore this further, I then examined each separate colour in its individual shades. By doing this I can get an understanding of what theme colours my magazine design will be based around.

 

Here is what my audience thought of my colour schemes, interactively powered by Voki.