When I did the photo shoot I especially asked my model to bring in the top that she wore. This is because I wanted to keep the jazz look but make it still look pop. Many other jazz singers mostly wore black suits. As my model is a girl I didn't want her to wear a suit this top combines jazz and pop, it can be associated with pop but also with jazz.

At the start of making the magazine this is what I had. As a group we sat down on one computer and made this together on indesign this was our basic layout for the magazine, which we all had to follow. So that our editions would look like they are from the same magazine.

On the left hand side is the front cover, we all have a box out at the bottom of the front cover. On the right side its the contents page which looks quite similar to the front page.

On our double page we all have a lyrics column, were we made our own Jappop songs and wrote them in.

We all changed the shade colour. Of the title of our magazine. So that our editions aren't exactly the same. We also changed the colours of the box out and lyrics column to match the shade.

We made up a Jappop song as a group and put it in to our editions. The song that is in my edition is called ‘Hope it’s True ’ and is sung by Alex.

To make my singer look original we took these pictures on the stage in our school.

The picture has come out good and it looks realistic but the problem is in the background you can see some of the equipment behind the curtains.So I started of by editing this picture.

This is the equipment you can see in the background. Even though there isn’t a lot I still wanted to get rid of it.

Using the clone tool on Adobe Photoshop, I’ve cloned the curtains so I can hide the equipment that is visible.

The cloning worked out good ,you couldn’t tell that it had been cloned. I just had a little bit left to do at the bottom.Before when I tried doing the cloning I did it form left to right and then you were able to see even when you zoomed out of the picture.

I’ve done all the part at the bottom and it looks like it is part of the curtain.

There was a long piece of equipment that was visible on the side but I covered that up using the cloning tool.

After all the cloning this is the final picture.

I also cropped the picture so that you couldn’t see the posters hanging on the side.

This is the picture I chose for the front cover of my magazine. I chose this picture because it doesn’t look posed and has a natural look to it.

I was thinking of having the picture for the secondary lead around the bottom of the magazine.

These are the six fonts form which I had to chose one for the subtitle of the magazine.

These two fonts look plain compared to the rest, so I took them out.

I didn’t like this don't because it is too curly, it would fit in to the Japop theme but it doesn’t look pop.

These are the three fonts that I was left with, to chose out of these I simply printed out all three of them and asked around the class.

This font got the most votes so I chose this.

This is the front cover when I put in the subtitle. I placed the subtitle around the models neck where it kind of is tucked inside. This gave it a more realistic feel.

On all our editions we were going to keep the slogans the same, I knew the slogan so I just out it in. At this time I wasn’t sure of where the slogan should be, what colour or what font.

This font was too at and it looked childish. It didn’t look Japop.

These two fonts look plain, they’re normal. They don’t look jazz or pop.

I liked these three fonts, they all looked good. Again I printed them all out and went around the class and asked people to vote.

I liked this font because it was slanted but when I checked the votes the most votes were for this font, so I used this font.

When I put in the slogan this is what the front cover looked like.

I kept the font colour white, because I couldn’t do green because the shade was green and then they’re would be too much green around the top of the magazine. I couldn’t do blue because then it would be the same as the subtitle. So I thought of doing white.

I wanted to use this picture because when I put in the article, the article would go around the arm giving a good effect.

I chose this picture for my double page article. But then I changed the picture to this one because with his picture I could achieve a effect that I wanted.

I liked the high angle of this picture and I would of used it. I then thought if I couldn't use it for my double page I'll use it for my contents page.

I then used the picture that I was going to use for the double page article for my contents page.

The contents page looks the same as the front cover. We kept the contents page the same as front cover so that you could tell that it’s all from the same magazine.

The pose the model is doing in this picture is really good. I like it because it would make the reader think she is looking right at you.

The other editions of the magazine had an glow around the main image on the contents page, because the other editions had my edition needed it as well. Otherwise my edition wouldn’t fit with their magazines.

First when I tried to make an glow around the image I came out with an outline instead of a glow, and it didn’t match the other editions at all. When I tried again the glow came out but it was to fat, so I had to make it thinner.

I finally came out with this it was perfect. It wasn’t too fat and it didn’t look like an outline it looked like a glow.

To check it the glow matched with the other editions we all put up our contents page on the screen so we could see if they looked any similar. The contents page looked similar but different in their own way.

My article is called ‘new year, new artist…Alex’ I have kept the font style and the colour the same as the heading on the front cover.

After looking at other examples of double page articles from some year 11 magazines, I saw that some of them had subtitles on their double page article.

My subtitle is ‘So what does UK star Alex have up her sleeve for 2010’ I have kept this as the subtitle because my singer is a new artist in Japop.

I had lots of fonts to chose from. These are the four fonts I had to chose out of. I wasn’t quite sure about what colour to use, so then I used the colour white and it came with a blue outline. Fist I was going to change the colour but then when I looked at it I thought looked quiet good.

This font was good but it looked like the fonts they use in newspapers and I didn't want my magazine to look like a newspaper.

I liked this font but it looked kind of plain.

This font was too fat and didn’t give the right look. It did look nice but I found the font at the bottom better.

Because I had made up my mind I didn’t have to go around my class and ask people to vote for one of the fonts.

All the other editions of our magazine had their slogans in a box out, so I also had to put my slogan in a box out. Otherwise it wouldn’t look like they were from the same magazine.

Our house style is Midnight Blue/ White/ Purple/ Black. So I thought I use the a blue but not a midnight blue for the box out.

I also put in a barcode at the bottom, I wasn’t quite sure to keep it this way or flip it on its side.

My secondary lead is ‘Lucy Arday is Back’ The picture I had up at the bottom of the front cover is to do with this subheading.

I was thinking of not putting up the picture of Lucy Arday. I felt that there was not enough space, because I was going to add other sub headings later on. If I put in the picture it would be to crowded.

I also added the sub heading saying ‘Includes lyrics for Hope it’s True’ which is the hit song by Alex.

I didn’t make a big fuss about the font for the subheadings. I chose the colours randomly I didn’t want to spend too much time on little things.

I then added a subheading without a box out. I felt

I wrote out all the things I was going o include in my magazine. Then I chose some out of them to write onto the front cover for a subheading.

Lots of magazines have there own look for example a rock magazine would have a rocky look, so I thought I should include something about the Japop look.

I was going to use this picture for my contents page, but then I thought we need at least four original images so I thought I’ll use this picture for the front over and a different picture for the contents page.

On this double page the article columns are going down straight, what I wanted was for them to go around the arm of my model giving a good effect.

This is why I wanted to use this picture for

the double page article because I

could then get this affect

when I put in my article.

After I had completed my double page article I moved onto my contents page. I wrote out all my contents. I thought of keeping the colour eh same as the colour of my article. So that it would look like it’s from the same edition.

Looking at some other magazines made by the yr11 I saw that the page numbers were in a different colour and the rest of the text in a another colour.

I also did the same to my contents page, I matched the page numbers with the shadow of my title and I kept the rest the same colour.

I changed the colour of the title ‘What’s Inside’ to match with the page numbers.

I also added a picture in at the bottom corner. It was mainly because I didn’t have anything else to include in my magazine. So there was a big gap at the bottom which I needed to fill that’s when I thought of putting another image on the contents page.

I didn’t want to add any more sub headings because I thought it would be a bit too crowded, so instead I added a picture at the bottom.

Adding the picture in the bottom was a good idea because most magazines have more than 2 images on their front cover. Also we have to use at least 4 original photographs.

I thought I had finished my double page article. But my teacher said it would look better if I straightened out this title.