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This double page spread is quite similar to other double page spreads, but gives the same feeling as the other pages I’ve created. They all follow the same house style and the images are also original. I’ve mainly developed a skill of professionalism. It looks like a real double page spread because of how it follows the generic conventions of magazines. It has a main image, masthead, standfirst, article etc. I’ve made it slightly original by the use of the secondary image.

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I used images other than the ones I took especially for this project. The use of the image of Sting, and the hands from a rock concert made it look professional. I wasn’t planning on doing so, but because I happened to go to Sting’s concert three years ago and took a picture, I thought of using it because it is the same genre. The image of the rock concert is from the internet, but it still looks good. I developed my skill of photography in this product.

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With the contents page, I wanted it to be different from other typical contents pages. Usually, the images are all in a line, on one side and the contents on the other. I didn’t want mine to be like the typical contents pages, so again, I developed my originality skill to make it completely my own. The brick wall, the canted images, and the crossed masthead. As I’ve said earlier, the brick wall is from the song by Pink Floyd, another brick in the wall because it is a very famous song, and the crossed “Contents” comes from my own idea.

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All the sell lines include puns in it. I researched other magazines and found what made me be interested in them. The sell lines that caught my eye weren’t the typical “Exclusive interviews”, “Amazing show”, “From bottom to top” etc. sell lines, but the ones that had more meaning in it. So I decided to make all my sell lines as interesting as possible because people like me will be more attracted to it. I developed my researching skill and making the researched product my own.

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As you can see from the earlier posts on my blog, I was thinking of making the main image black and white to again, give an “Oldie” feel, however it didn’t look right. It gave the audience a different impression from what I was hoping to give, so I made it colour instead. I developed my production skills by doing so.

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At first I didn’t know what could make a magazine really stand out from the rest. So I thought of making the masthead and the main image very large. However, by doing so the rest of the page wouldn’t be recognized easily. So I firstly decided to chose my house style; red, black and white. My favourite magazine is the Rolling Stone magazine so I imagined my magazine to look like it too. I wanted a 60’s 70’s feel to it, so I started by making the masthead like a printed font and calling it Mixtape. This is how I developed the sense of originality. Even though the theme may have come from the Rolling Stone magazine, all the ideas were of my own.