Amanda Media Studies

For my feature spread I included the same model as the cover. As I mentioned previously, she is 24 years old. For that reason, I think she would appeal to my target age group of late teens to mid-thirties. Young women will relate to her and either look up to her as someone older or remember themselves that age because she is younger. The way she is posing makes this spread friendlier and more fun. By tilting her head off to the side and smiling she gives off a subtle nice ‘girl next door’ look. Her smile is inviting and urges the reader to keep on reading because she gives off a welcoming vibe. The bright pink life preserver adds to the color scheme of the spread and plays nicely with the hot pink border and drop cap letter. Talking about the color scheme, the simple but bold yellow, pink, white, and black gives off a modern and playful vibe but also is simple enough to appeal to an older audience. The actual text is extremely appropriate for the purpose of the magazine. When I...

    I decided to use the picture I had edited in one of my earlier posts because I felt like it was perfect in the sense that her smile seemed genuine, unlike some of the other pictures, and her head was tilted in a nice way and her hair was perfectly placed (in some of the other pictures there are rebellious hair strands.) Overall it was a nice picture with a soft, girly touch to it as well as a fun summer look. I knew I wanted the picture to be by itself on one page like I had previously seen in magazines such as Nylon but I also wanted to place a quote of hers in a big font, also by itself. Since I obviously couldn't do that I put the picture and the quote on the same page. This is where I really wanted to show off the bold color scheme that I desperately desired, so I started formatting the background of the picture/quote page. I used bright blue, red, green, and yellow to format like a rectangle inside a rectangle inside a rectangle. As I kept working on it and plac...