Analysis of double page spread edit 2

I feel my double page spread second edit is very successful. The principal reason as to why I like it so much is because it accompanies the contents page and front cover well. This is for numerous reasons, one being the colour… I’ve stuck to the same colour scheme consistently, using the purest shade of white and black, and using the eye drop tool to select the identical yellow, pink and blues. If you compare all the images, they have the precise same hues and because of this there is certainly a sense of continuity and flow. The second thing that is the same is the frames. There’s a yellow border on the cover and a polaroid frame on the contents page, so I intertwined both of these elements to create a polaroid shaped yet block coloured frame. Frames are a feature that Cherry Bomb could be recognised by, like Time magazine with it’s red border and National Geographic with it’s yellow edge, so for this reason I chose to keep them up. A feature that I revisited was gradients. I first did a pink to blue gradient as the backdrop for the front cover, and on the double page spread I did a gradient of blue to yellow to pink above the page number to add a bit of pizzazz and contempary-ness.  To do this I used the rectangular marquee tool and a large paint brush with a very soft edge, and this is the same method as what I did on the cover. Another thing I kept the same was the photographs. Despite the fact I could have used one of the other pictures taken of Seah in a different outfit with a different backdrop, I wanted there to be an obvious link or connection to the cover and the contents page and so I used images from the same photosets.

About a year and a half ago I bought a set of pens called Mildliners which are popular for their mild and pastel colours, so the highlighted bits of the articles were inspired by the colour outcome of this highlighting set. (As seen in my youtube video) I was contemplating changing the colour of the text as well, so I played around with yellow, blue, and (due to random curiosity) brown font before deciding on black font. 

The other day I was reading Dazed magazine and usually in articles, the people who have been a part of the formation (like the photographer and stylists etc.), have their names discretely hidden on the page edge or corner, but in Dazed everyone's name was boldly placed under the title and this looked so fresh and raw, so I mimicked this idea and placed the credits on the main large poloroid.
I added a tiny bit of colloquial language via multi-modal languge in the article, by writing "lol" and "tbh", and I did this because I thought that surely the audience will know and frequently use these words.

When editing the white t-shirt dress image, I made sure not to include a portion of Seah's body, because it made her appear larger and magazines usually advocate slimmer body preportions and I tried to use the Patch Healing Tool to make the appearance of smaller arms, however this didn't really work as it looked messy and edited (I wanted it to look natural), so I scrapped this idea.

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