PRODUCTION: double spread final draft

For my final front cover, I have chosen the winter issue out of the two front covers I made, and the double page spread is loosely based on the winter front cover - what mainly links the two are the main images i used for the front cover and double page spread of my magazine, where the model is wearing the same clothes in both. The main cover line on the winter issue also links back to the double page spread's article, as both are about the same person.

(The faint guideline in the centre indicates where the page would be folded if it was printed)

 

This double page spread from INDIE magazine is what I heavily based my double page spread on:

However, I was only able to copy the aesthetic conventions of the above double page spread: my article text was improvised as I found the text in INDIE's article too small to read for me to have a basis on what to write. In my article, I considered that the target market of PIXIE, like in the case of INDIE, are young individuals of both genders from a higher economical income. Many of these young people interested in fashion who would read magazines like INDIE would run their own blogs on sites such as Tumblr, Blogger or Pinterest. This is why I have used a fair amount of lexis which is often used on such sites, as it makes the magazine seem up-to-date in terms of the latest trends, as well as interactive with these social media communities.