Final music magazine front cover

Final image

I played around with photoshop and produced many final images but made a decision on one and choose this one:
I thought it was effective and would help me to be able to easily and effectivly include headlines and coverlines on my front cover as it gave me a blank background in the places which these would be.

I came to the decision that I would use this image, I think it portrays a good image of artists in the pop industry as it is a calm simple image and shows an innocent  image.

Interview for double page spread

I have chosen to include a short interview on my double page spread so it gives the reader an insight into the artists life and music career. The interview will be a standard question and answer including questions like:
Q: How did you get your big break?
A: .....

Q: How is life within the pop industry?
A: .....
Exclusive interview with the new artist of 2011
including quotes from other magazines:
heat say 'one too look out for in 2011'
Grazia say 'a breath of fresh air, something new and exciting'
etc...

Exclusive interview with emi.
Include a quote from the interview on the front page to get the attention of the reader and make them want to read on and read about this certain artist.

Potential pictures for my music magazine

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I wanted my main image to be very simple yet effective so i decided to use a detailed busy background and just one main viewpoint which is Emily. I thought this would be effective as i would use a black and white image and then colourful bright writing to show the fun bright connotations of pop music.

I took a lot of pictures to get the certain effect i wanted and then narrowed them down to 3 pictures which i thought was the most effective and suited my idea the best.

After choosing my pictures I played around with them all on photoshop, changing the colour and cutting different bits out.