DPS draft

DPS idea4

Because there was a little bit of space left underneath the article, I decided to add an image of Aggie Pop and Kana's new album , "Hasta La Vista Boys" which I've already mentioned on the front page of the magazine. I've posterized the image as I did in the image of Kana in the front page. It looks like an actual album cover because of the album name right in the middle. I've exaggerated the colour pink because they are both girls and the name of the album has something to do with boys, so it connotes girly-ness. In this image, neither of them are looking at the camera and their hair is very messy. This connotes casualty and also something secretive. People will therefore be more interested. This will also attract more women, who aren't the majority of my target audience so it will increase the number of buyers.



I added the image underneath the article and added a little text to inform people what this is. I also added our website again to increase the number of followers on our webpage. By repeating it more, people will see it more and be more interested.

DPS idea3

I added a pull quote next to Aggie Pop where there was space. The font is distorted and it connotes instability, and matches what the quote is saying because it is a slightly negative phrase. I originally thought of adding the other pull quote "I was made an offer I couldn't refuse", but I thought I was using that too many times and it became too repetitive, and also because there wasn't enough space. The way it's not filling the whole emptiness off the image and it looks like it is floating in the air makes it look better.



Next, I added the generic conventions of a magazine; the page number. I included the date, the magazine name and in a larger font, the page number. The font of the magazine name is the same as in the front page, and the page number is very large so it is easily noticeable when people are looking through the magazine. I also added a page number on the other side of the page but as it is hardly any different from this image, I haven't added that image on here.



This is on the right bottom corner of the image and it says who took the image (me) and when I took it. It is in small letters as it is not very important, and I don't want to distract the audience from looking at the image and article.

DPS idea2

This is how it looks like when the image is on the left. I think it looks better, and again like the contents page, she is looking away from her story which makes us feel that she's hiding something and that we're luring inside. This attracts more people because they feel like they know something they shouldn't. The left bar that overlaps the main image also makes it look nice, matching the bar in the skyline.



I added the white heading which is her name, in the same font as in the front page. This gives a relation to it and is neat. It stands out very much because of the contrast of black and white and because it's large.











This is the standfirst. I made the colour of the text,"Rock n Roll queen" red to make it stand out because it will attract more people. I also added an exclamation mark to make it look like it's shouting it towards the readers. The standfirst includes the phrase "long and winding road" which I stole from the song by the Beatles to attract fans of the Beatles as well as Aggie Pop to increase more fans of her and to inform more people, which relates to Blumler and Katz's theory of informing the audience.



This is how I layered the article. The drop cap is an A which connotes the beginning because it also looks like the start of the alphabet. The article is in three columns to make it look neater. I separated the artcile into several paragraphs to also make it look neater.

DPS idea1

I edited the original image and made it look like a vintage photo. I did this because the colour matches the red and black house style, and a vintage image will attract my target audience. The shadow covering half of Aggie Pop's face can connote darkness and will attract more people because it looks like there's a story behind her face. The left hand side is black, where the text will be.




I added a red bar on the top including the text "Features" to let the audience know which part of the magazine this is. It also borders the two sides of the magazine and ties it together and looks like a bridge and it makes it look nice. The colour red also matches the two colours on both sides.

Although I do not have an image, I added the text on the black background on the left hand side, but it did not look very good. I think it was not well balanced with the big gap on the right hand side of the image, and all the text on the left side. So I will change the two sides so the image is on the left, and the text on the right.

Second Draft

Aggie Pop’s road to World Domination

“I never liked the idea of fame and fortune; I was made an offer I couldn’t refuse…”

The Rock n Roll queen of the century was not always the queen. Like always, there was a long winding road that led her towards it. Aggie, here we come!

Aggie Pop is leaning on a wall holding a can of beer in one hand, and a cigarette in the other. Her sold-out concert in Bangkok has just finished, and her fan’s screamings have eventually stopped. How did it go? “Not bad. I had a fan come up to me saying she loved PJ Harvey, and that I reminded him of her! Not a bad compliment eh?”

That’s how hot she is. You know how it feels to drink a hot cup of coffee in a sauna wearing a jumper and leather trousers? Boiling. She may be becoming even hotter than Harvey. Nowadays, female solo artists all follow the same style; love, hate, break ups etc. with Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and Meghan Trainor topping the billboard of female artists. Aggie Pop has brought Rock n roll back to life. But was she always this cool, Rock n Roll Goddess?

She may seem like a charming young girl, but life was never like this before. “I was brought up by my single unemployed father in the suburbs of Tokyo. I loved my dad. Although we didn’t have any money, I enjoyed my life there. I hated school though. My first day of school in my hand-me-down robes and second hand books wasn’t particularly nice. It was a rough school so you had to fight to reach the top. I fought well.” She grins slightly. Her first guitar was a present on her ninth birthday from her dad. A second hand guitar with a broken string. “It was the best gift ever. I played it all the time with five strings. I couldn’t get it repaired until I was fifteen.” She claims she still uses five strings at times. It wasn’t a brilliant start. But look where that’s led her now. The top.

“How did you enter the celebrity world?” I ask. “I never liked the idea of fame and fortune.”she replies. “ I used to play a lot on the streets and the underground, and collected a bit of money by doing so. That’s how I got my guitar repaired.” She had started to play on the streets as she said, at the age of fifteen when she found a drummer and a bass guitarist to play together. That’s how they formed a band, and that’s how she was noticed by Julian Connors, her manager-to-be.“He came up to me one day and said he loved my songs I had written, and that he would like to sign it.” He is the key to Aggie Pop’s success. It is thanks to him that we’re able to listen to her fabulous music right now on the radio. “But if you didn’t want fame and fortune, what motivated you to follow him?” I ask. “I refused at first.” What!? “I refused because as you say, I didn’t want fame or fortune. But as they say in the Godfather; ‘I was made an offer I couldn’t refuse’”we laugh together. “He said that if I wouldn’t let anyone sign my record, he would steal my guitar away from me. It did feel like a joke, but I was still afraid that he will actually steal it, so I had no choice. I still didn’t have money to buy another one. He was never going to take my guitar away from me. Never!” she says strongly. I could feel all her love toward her dad as she said that. If it weren’t for her kind-hearted father and strong-willed manager, Aggie Pop will not be sharing her amazing album with us.

“Now that you’ve reached fame and fortune without willing to do so, how do you feel about it?” I ask. “I don’t know how to feel about it.” she replies, twitching her face slightly. “I didn’t want to reach this point because I thought I would never be able to lead a normal life and probably not see my dad as easily as I always could. Now that I’ve reached this point, it’s not that bad. It’s all up to you in the end isn’t it? I mean, what’s normal? A normal life could be anything. I’m doing something that gives joy to people. And I don’t mind doing so.” That was the most cool Aggie I had ever seen. She says it straight and leaves the concert hall towards her next destination where another massive number of fans await. Seeya Aggie Pop and we all wish you the best of luck for the future xxx (Although I have a very strong feeling you wouldn’t be needing any!)

Double Page Spread article draft

Aggie Pop is leaning on the wall holding a can of beer in one hand, and a cigarette in another. Her sold-out concert in Bangkok has just finished, and her fan’s screamings have eventually stopped. How did it go? “Not bad. I had a fan come up to me saying she loved PJ Harvey, and that I reminded her of Harvey! Not a bad compliment eh?”

That’s how hot she is. You know how it feels to drink a hot cup of coffee in a sauna wearing a jumper and leather trousers? Boiling. She may be becoming hotter than Harvey. Nowadays, female solo artists all follow the same style; Love, hate, break ups etc. with Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and Meghan Trainor topping the billboard female artists. Aggie Pop has brought Rock n roll back to life. But was she always this cool, Rock n roll Goddess?

She may seem like a charming young girl, but life was never like this before. “I was brought up by my single unemployed father in the suburbs of Tokyo. I loved my dad. Although we didn’t have any money, I enjoyed my life there. I hated school though. My first day of school in my hand-me-down robes and second hand books wasn’t particularly nice. It was a rough school so you had to fight to reach the top. I fought well.” She grins slightly. Her first guitar was a present on her ninth birthday from her dad. A second hand guitar with a broken string. “It was the best gift ever. I played it all the time with five strings. I couldn’t get it repaired until I was fifteen.” She claims she still uses five strings at times. It wasn’t a brilliant start. But look where that’s led her now? The top.

“How did you enter the celebrity world?” I ask. “I never liked the idea of fame and fortune.”she replies. “ I was noticed by a music manager called Julian Connors working in Star-Studios when I was playing on the streets of Tokyo. He said he loved my songs I had written, and that he would like to sign it.” Julian Connors is her manager right now and he is the key to Aggie Pop’s success. It is thanks to him that we’re able to listen to her fabulous music right now on the radio. “But if you didn’t want fame and fortune, what motivated you to follow him?” I ask. “I refused at first.” What!? “I refused because as you say, I didn’t want fame and fortune. But as they say in the Godfather; ‘I was made and offer I couldn’t refuse’”we laugh together. “He said that if I wouldn’t let anyone sign my record, he would steal my guitar away from me. It did feel like a joke, but I was still afraid that he will actually steal it, so I had no choice. I still didn’t have money to buy another one. He was never going to take my guitar away from me. Never.” she says strongly. I could feel all her love toward her dad as she said that. If it weren’t for her kind-hearted father and strong-willed manager, Aggie Pop will not be sharing her amazing album with us.

“Now that you’ve reached fame and fortune without willing to, how do you feel about it?” I ask. “I don’t know how to feel about it.” she replies, twitching her face slightly. “I didn’t want to reach this point because I thought I would never be able to lead a normal life and probably not see my dad as easily as I always could. Now that I’ve reached this point, it’s not that bad. It’s all up to you in the end isn’t it? I mean, what’s normal? A normal life could be anything. I’m doing something that gives joy to people. And I don’t mind doing so.” That was the most cool Aggie I had ever seen. She says it straight and leaves the concert hall towards her next destination where another massive number of fans await. Seeya Aggie Pop and we all wish you the best of luck for the future xxx