Star Profile

Star Profile;

Name - Ava Costella AKA Ava

Age - 22

D.O.B - 4th March 1990

Personality - Ava Costella is a new upcoming R'n'B artist; she does not only sing but writes her own music also. She has a confident, fun loving attitude; someone that would appeal to a large audience. However although she likes to have her fun, she works very hard and is very good at what she does . Her first single has just been released and has hit No1 in the charts; this portrays good things for my star.

 

Reasons;

I chose the name Ava Costella because I wanted a name people would remember and as Ava Costella is an unusual name it is more rememberable. Earlier in my blog I thought of different names I could use, Ava Quinn and Eva Costella were two of the names I thought of; I liked the name Ava simply because it was short and simple, one I could imagine on a front cover of a magazine however I didn't like the name Quinn; I thought it was too plain and simple so I looked at the other last names I had thought of, and Eva Costella jumped out at me; the last name Costella seemed as though it was a foreign last name, which would attract the audeince as something foreign is different yet intriguing.

I chose her age to be 22 years old because I wanted her to still be in her 'young and wild' days however I wanted her to have a bit of maturity about her so having her in her early 20's would suit.

Her age reflects her personality, I wanted my star to have a fun side to her personality so the demographic audience would find her excititng and enjoyable and perhaps be able to relate to her songs more if they are full of things that seem upbeat and fun. However, I want her mature also so the target audience can see her as a hard working role model that loves to have fun but also loves to work hard at what shes good at. Plus, I feel like people would take her more seriously if she is more mature and not young and silly.

Front cover

I have been working on the front cover for my magazine and this is where I have got to; I have printscreened certain things I did and uploaded them also to show how I altered my front cover to make it look better.

This is towards the start of my creation. I simply put in the masthead and altered its size so it covers nearly all of the page at the top. I then place my star over it suggesting she is newer than the magazine itself. However I was not completely happy with the image as I thought it wasn't as perfectly blemished or noticeable as other stars are in my earlier research.

To change this I wanted to make her skin look smother, her cheekbones more outlined and her lips more red to match the masthead, as I am comfortable with the app I have on my iphone I used that to make her skin look more smooth...

For the cheeks and lips I used the paintbrush on paint.net...

 

 As you can see I have drew dark and light lines on the lining of the cheekbones so they stand out more and I have painte the lips more red and put white lining on there for the 3D effect almost as though light it shining off them.
I then added the writing on the front of my magazine, I was searching for a plain font but also one that could slightly match my masthead otherwise I felt it would look odd, I searched for fonts and found this one

I liked this font when I saw it as it slightly matched my masthead font, as it is slightly square but also has curves in it. I tried this out on my front cover and liked it so I used it.

This is where I am at with my front cover so far...

 

 



drafts

These are my drafts for my front cover, contents and double page spread.
However, I am using these drafts as a starting ground, I may not actually live up to what these drafts look like exactly. Some of the things I might do differently are; have a different picture on the front cover; not have a selling line; have a different quote for my double page spread and other little things, although these drafts are going to be my starting point.

photographs

I have taken the photographs I said I was going to take in my post yesterday.
I have not yet edited the pictures, or changed them in anyway; however I will be doing that when I am trying it out with my masthead and coverline.
I have deleted photographs that were not good quality or photos I felt wouldnt look good in my magazine.
All in all, I have 45 photo to play around with and choose out of, these are some of my photographs...

My photographs

I will be taking the photographs for my magazine tomorrow at around 4pm; the photographs will be taken in my house and I will be using my sister as a model for my magazine.
I will be using two cameras, I will be using my Iphone camera as the effects you can do on an iphone are good and will work well with my magazine e.g. I can make the models face smooth as though it has been air brushed. I will also be using a professional camera; purely because this camera will take good quality photographs.
For the background of my photographs I will try to use plain coloured backgrounds, my original idea was to use a white wall or put a white sheet up but as I can erase the background I will not see this is as a major priority.
I am going to take my photos in my house; first of all I will take them downstairs against a white wall but as that is an small palce I will take my other photos upstairs in my room against a red wall.
I will want my model to wear a tight black dress, with her hair down perhaps,  as it will outline her figure and will catch the eye of the audience I am targetting my magazine at. I will also want my model to wear high wasted shorts, with a bandoe/boobtube top and heels, with her hair either up or down; having her wear this will show her skin tone off and show her legs.

echo with backgrounds

I have uploaded this to my blog to show I have tried out different backgrounds for the front cover of my magazine. The idea of having a block colour or a fading colour in the background came from my research of vibe magazine, e.g.

However, by trying this out I can see that I do not like a block colour in the background and I'd much rather have a faded background. I tried the faded background in different colours also...

Although the background on the left has a different style of font for the masthead I can still get an idea of what it will be like on that background. Nevertheless, between these two backgrounds I prefer the grey one as I feel its a more subtle colour therefore I can put more brighter colours on top of it.

Backgrounds

I have been playing around with some backgrounds using the colours I suggested lower down in my research.

This is the background without any adjustments to it. I like the colour as that's the colour I suggested earlier on in my research, however I think its too obvious with the colour contrast which makes it look unprofessional, also the dark colour might dominate the page...

... I then adjusted the brightness and contrast level and this is what it turned out like, this is slightly better than the first one however I am not sure of the colour, the pinkish colour makes it look more of a 'pop' magazine rather than an R'n'B one.

I started to play around with the 'grey' colour for my background. I used word to do this as there are fill affects on there that would be useful. This one has the grey coming rom the bottom which would make the masthead and anything else that is towards the top of the page stand out...

... I then changed it to the opposite way so the grey is coming from the top rather than the bottom, this would make the cover line and anything else at the bottom stand out.