When i began constructing my templates i hadn't done as much research into my demographic and the choice to put the title as 'blush' was just something stereotypically associated with my demographic. However after realising this was in line with dominant ideologies and made girls seem submissive to men i decided to change the title to 'LolPop' which is a play on words of the abbreviation 'Lol' which means 'laugh out loud' this is used in text speak and my readers would be familiar with this and able to identify with it. My focus group preferred this name to 'Blush' and said it was fun. My focus group preferred the second design and said the tone of green was appealing to them and reminded them of summer and nature. I decided to incorporate this colour green into my masthead as opposed to the harsh pinks used by other magazines for young girls e.g. GoGirl and GirlTalk. These magazines were the most read by my focus group however i would like to provide them with an alternative.
For my double-page spread i tried to make my two templates as different as possible and see how my focus group responded. They prefered the softer pastel colours of the first template but thought the heart shape was 'typical'. I took this into account when creating my final double-page spread.
When i created the templates for my contents page i took into account feedback i got from the other two pages and used mainly pastel colours, i must admit, i did think they would prefer the second one where i incorporated green however they chose the first design showing that my target demographic like variety and a range of colours.
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