Drafting & Planning: Contents Page.

First I moved this photo into publisher, so I could turn it black and white. After this, I saved it as an image and imported it onto PagePlus so that I could work around it.

Here I edited the colours of my fonts and backgrounds. I have used grey as it matches with the image above it, and also because it does not clash too much with my house style. I decided to continue to use 'Impact' font for the titles on my contents page because I have used it on my front cover and i want my magazine to be holistic.

Final Draft:

Drafting & Planning: Double Page Spread.

For my double page spread I decided not to use publisher at all as PagePlus is much easier than Paint.net to arrange fonts on. I cropped the image a lot so that my model was the centre of the image. First I added a pull quote and a interview title in colours fitting my house style.

The finished draft:

I will add the page numbers on the final piece.

Drafting & Planning: Front cover.

I have used paint.net to place my coverstar over my masthead, and also to crop the main image. Afterwards, I moved the flattened image to a publisher document, where i added my pug, puff, coverlines and secondary image.

I will probably add more coverlines on for my final piece because the cover isn't cluttered enough for a magazine similar to Rocksound or Kerrang!.

Organisation: Photo Selection.

Front Cover:

I will add a little more saturation to this photo, and I will also crop it so that my cover star is right in the middle of the image.

Secondary Image for the front cover:

I will crop this image into a more square shape so it takes up less room on the front cover.

Contents Page:

I will crop this photo so that the red carpet is showing less, and so the table is out of sight. 

I will turn this photo black and white so that it fits in with my house style (red, black, white) better.

Double Page Spread:

I will also crop the desk out of this photo, and I will leave less space above the model's head. I will not edit the colour in this photo as it has the right lighting and background colours.

Secondary Image for Double Page Spread:

This photo was taken to link in with one of the interviewer's questions in the double page spread. This photo will not have its colour edited, but i may need to crop it substantially as it shouldn't take away space for my text.

Organisation: Publication Plan.

Organisation: Results from the photoshoot.

Here are the pictures from my photoshoot in the drama studio.

Drafting & Planning: Draft Article Content.

Most Kerrang and Rocksound interviews only have 9 or 10 questions so I need to create 9 good quality questions that allow my artist to expand.

Pull Quote: "I'm so damn sick of hearing from people that drugs are fun."

Intro: Fiery. Diva. Ruthless. Francesca is well known for being a woman you don't want to mess with. Stone Cold magazine managed to get hold of Thorns and Roses frontwoman, between partying and songwriting, to discuss the dangers of drugs, the wrongs in the writing and the beauty in betrayal.

1. Interviewer: Hey Francesca! I heard we're pretty lucky to fit into your schedule today.
Me: (laughs) In a way yes. I'm going to a CD signing this evening but I'm always glad to promote my music in Stone Cold.

2. Interviewer: Tell us about Chemical Lungs. What's the meaning behind it?
Me: It's an uncomfortable topic for me. The 'chemical' part is about my best friend's drug abuse. He totally destroyed himself with it. He started off just re-creationally at parties but he just lost control and wrecked his body. I can't count the times I ended up taking him to hospital because he almost overdosed. It broke my heart.The 'lungs' part is about my emotion. I tried my hardest on this album. I really poured my heart into it so hard that sometimes I hurt my lungs singing. Sometimes I just cracked up because the lyrics stopped being lyrics and began to be how I really felt.

3. Interviewer: That's pretty heavy stuff. What do you think your listeners will think of it?
Me: I hope it will discourage them from taking drugs. Its so publicized that drugs are cool and will fix your problems but they just don't. They just create more. I'm so damn sick of hearing from people that drugs are fun. I hope people appreciate that the emotion isn't fake. If I sound like I'm almost crying I probably am (small chuckle).

4. Interviewer: Some of the songs on Chemical lungs are pretty angry though. Will you give us an insight on why that is?
Me: I wanted to kick the rumours that Thorns and Roses were going soft up the arse. Just because we've learnt our lessons about drug and alcohol abuse doesn't mean that were not rock stars. We're just not stupid little kids anymore. More to the point this album shows my anger about my ex band mates and the people who let my friend get his hands on drugs. I had enough.

5. Interviewer: I don't blame you dude. Getting off the topic of bad friends, tell me some info about the CD.
Me: I'm really proud of it! It features the track 'Old Blue' and there's a code to download it onto a computer. Its £9.99 and its in all good music stores, as well as on Amazon and it's currently on half price offer on the Stone Cold website. So get buying people!

6. Interviewer: I'm sure they will! We've got some questions that our readers have sent in that we hoped you'd answer. Whats the best rumour you have heard about yourself?
Me: (laughs) I think the best one is that I'm a lesbian. It made me wonder if I really come off that way. It was really weird because I was in a relationship with a guy when that rumour came out.

7. Interviewer: What inspires you to write?
Me: Past loves, current loves, the extremes of emotion. It really sucks getting writers block because it usually happens to me when i'm at my happiest. I guess i just like having something to complain about (laughs).

8. Interviewer: Who were your musical inspirations as you were growing up?
Me: I really liked Arctic Monkeys and alternative hip hop artists like Odd Future, but most of all it was the Antichrist Superstar. I really look up to Manson, he's endlessly intelligent and witty. He just puts words together so well that it left me thinking about a line for weeks on end. Marilyn Manson and the rest of his band is just the ideal of rock stardom to me. I can only hope that Thorns and Roses can become as successful as them.

9. Interviewer: Whats the most important thing for you in being a frontwoman for a popular new rock band?
Me: Influence. Its vital to me that I have a positive influence on kids. So many rock and metal bands are accused of making kids so crazy things; suicide, school shootings, taking drugs. And yeah fair enough I do write some controversial lyrics but I just never want to be known as the person who made someone hateful, or self harm, or take drugs. I want the kids to know you can love rock music and still love life.

Target Audience: Audience demographic.

Example used: Rocksound featuring You Me At Six.

The audience demographic is the different areas in which the population is split up. You can identify the audience demographic from the presentation of the front cover.

Age: 15-24

Gender: Both genders, but mainly male. I have found this informant from my research about Rocksound, but also from the house style. It is edgy enough to attract the attention of a typical rock-loving man, but can also attract female readers as the band members pictured can be considered attractive, and are photographed in an appealing way. This happens frequently on Rocksound covers.

Likes: Rock music, physical CDs, concerts. The cover shows me this

Dislikes: Majority of pop music. The cover shows me this as it advertises both soft and hardcore bands, but no pop music stars.

Attitudes: The cover tells us that the readers have a rebellious attitude towards life. I can infer this from 'Its us against the world!' I can also infer that the readers may be quite excitable as the house style is far from subtle, with red and yellow being bright and contrasting colours.

Register: The register of the magazine is the tone of the language. I can infer that the readers may be outsiders, as they will be able to identify with 'It's us against the world!' way of thinking.