LAME double page spread first draft

With my double page spread I made a very eye catching title so to draw the reader into the main article. The title highlights that the word 'negative'. This automatically makes the reader want to know why the character in the picture is negative. My research shows that magazines sell 67% more copies if the main story is negative instead of a positive story. This is because as humans we are interested in people failing then successes.

With the main image I took I wanted my model to be dressed like the target audience I am aiming for. The eye liner coupled with the cigarette shows an image of a girl that is stereotypically into rock/metal music. The magazine genre is alternative rock with can cover all different kinds of music genres. I hope to branch out and say to the potential buyer that its not just about alternative rock, but it dabbles with metal music as well. This opens up the door for more stories and news and will attract a whole new scene of people to buy the magazine. i think if you bottle neck the magazine to one genre then the originality and content will grow stail and people will stop buying the magazine.