Updated list of what to cover:

One front cover - Chan as an emerging queer artist

Other front cover - Men's mental health with Charlie and intertextual aspects of Billie Eilish when the party's over and Boys Don't Cry by the Cure

Video for audio-visual component of webpage - Interview with Chan and some clips of him playing an instrument

Issues to write about (or possibly just mention in the contents):

Vaping in younger generations

"Clean Girl aesthetic" and other ancient rituals that have become trends

Is it right for people to buy from charity shops/car boot sales when they can afford expensive clothing?

Modernising 60s fashion to suit anyone (specifically hijabis)

Is graffiti art or vandalism?

Teens and their lack of hobbies

Asian culture and how that transcends generations

Physical media vs digital media - nostalgia

Tiktok virality and how that can be dangerous

Curated identities

Travel guide - cheap places in London to travel to

The Bell Jar - are these classic feminist books really even feminist?

Top tips for/6 Tips for this winter

Trying celebrity diets

Danger of miniaturising aesthetics/making microaesthetics

Iranian women

Honouring Keith Haring

Is veganism truly beneficial for the planet?

Sunscreen is important but also detrimental for our oceans

The effect of prolonged exposure to short content

Film remakes and why they tend to fail

Capitalising off of a queer persona

Black History Month: black culture influencing pop culture over the world in ways you may not be aware 

The future of fashion - latex spray on Bella Hadid dress

Traditional historical vegan/vegetarian diets

Problems with shopping second-hand clothing online

Dangerous nanoparticles in skincare

the rise in reading 

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AI generated art

top halloween movies to watch

the 1975 new music

arctic monkeys new music

american psycho and resurgence of the ironic alpha male

women's football

the girlboss archetype - reinventing powerful women

tehran's blood art fountain

should sally rooney books be more inclusive

gentrification of east london

royal mail and train strikes

drug store dupes of makeup

is expensive skincare reflective of its quality or of the visual appeal

the female body as a spectacle: is your body type out of fashion

classic romcoms to watch to keep warm this coming winter

is music truly "indie" if the artist has famous parents

the school for good and evil - what we know so far about this upcoming adaptation

to wear a hijab or not - the pressure enforced by the patriarchy muslim women around the world feel

best blushes and lipstick to suit warm toned skin

dangers of wearing blush as lipstick and lipstick as blush

issy miyake and hanae mori died recently both japanese fashion deisgners

alpha male podcasts

 

Black people, especially women, feeling left out of certain aesthetics such an indie or pinterest things

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Other photos on the contact sheet

Testing the design and layout of the website

I wanted to create a brand identity so I made sure to use the same font for the text of the masthead on my front covers and on the magazine. To achieve this, I downloaded the fonts onto my desktop and had to take out the files I needed out of the zip files that came with the fonts as they were installed and then I could open them and upload them to the website. 

I am not sure if I prefer the look of the font in the middle or to the side of the magazine but as of right now, I prefer the one beneath:

I increased the font size of the word "post" in the masthead so that it balances out the size of the font of the word "modern" in the screenshot below:

22/09

I used the eyedropper tool to select a colour from her dress to use it for the masthead and the coverlines to see how that would look as white text may be washed out by the sky in the background

Using the eyedropper tool again, I sampled a darker colour from her outfit to use for the colour of the font which looks like a more sophisticated shade in my opinion but it may be slightly difficult to read.

I will need to reshoot this image so that the background looks more like it has the background of typical Vogue magazine covers (a publication that aspirational audiences may read) and so that there can be more space above the model's head for the masthead.

Other issues I could cover in my magazine:

Men's mental health - particularly amongst teenage boys, perhaps with intertextuality to Billie Eilish's "when the party's over" music video and/or a coverline that says "Boys Don't Cry" (a reference to the song with the same name by The Cure.

Issues of white content creators appropriating centuries old skincare and haircare claiming it is new and trendy and whether that is an issue. (clean girl aesthetic)

Aspirational audiences are interested in travelling so I could do an issue on cheap London routes to travel to and through with a bike perhaps - encompassing health and travel

Development of second front cover

The front cover image should have eye contact and a direct mode of address and, after discussing with Ms. Casson, I have decided to use this image as it is the most direct one, however, I may need to reshoot this as the background is not suitable for a front cover of a magazine.