New Photos

Following feedback from my teachers, I realised I need some new footage, so found some more models and took new photos for my website. Here are some of my favourites.

 

Feedback from 1st Draft

 Feedback from my first draft showed me that my first edition’s cover photo wasn’t striking enough, and didn’t catch the audiences attention.

From this, I began to look through some other photo options:

Next, I will place them into Photoshop, edit them and overlay my masthead and cover lines to see which photo works the best for the covers.

First Draft

https://19-lgil.wixsite.com/elitemagazine

20/10/25 - Development of Contents Page 1

 

Today, I developed my first contents page by finalising the specific layout I wanted. I decided that cutting out my model from the background made the image more striking and stand out better against the red. I also began to write the contents onto the page, inspired by content page examples from Elle, Vogue and Vanity Fair. Next to the cutout of the model, I created a “Seth Chadwick wears” section, with the information about the items of clothing my model is wearing, the brand of each item and the prices. I chose designer versions for all of the clothes, to replicate the high end fashion of Condé Nast magazines, such as Ralph Lauren, DIOR, and Hermés.

Underneath my models arm, I also included a caption that says “See more at www.elitemagazine.com”, to encourage readers to visit the website and promote digital convergence.

17/10/25 - Development of Front Cover and Cover Lines

 Today, I began to finalise the first draft of my front covers. This involved adding in barcodes to the bottom left of each of my covers, and adding cover lines that help define each of the articles inside.

The first covers main cover line, "Style, Substance and Rock & Roll" is a reference to the famous Ian Dury song, which is relevant considering the first model is meant to be the lead singer of a rock band, about to go on tour.

The second cover line "Redefining Femininity" refers to how the actress featured has recently starred in a film about femininity, masculinity and the way gender is represented in society.

16/10/25 - Development of the "CULTURE" Page on my Website

Today, I began to work on the "CULTURE" page of my website.

 I began by writing the heading to this page, which invites website visitors to join an ELITE club membership, offering exclusive content and limited editions that other visitors wouldn't be able to access.

Next, I chose a photo of one of my models and edited it in Photoshop using the spot healing tool, brightness adjustment and saturation adjustments to make it appear more polished and high end, as seen below:

ORIGINAL

EDITED

Applying this image to my website, I then added a registration form that website visitors can "Fill In" in order to become Elite Club members, see below the progress so far on this page:

15/10/25 - Photo Editing

 Today, I began to choose out some more photos to flesh out my website.

I chose some of my favourites from the collection of photoshoots I completed and edited some of them to be more high-end and Vogue worthy.