Final Image (Right; How page will appear in zine)
Text & Aesthetic
When the client got back to me with a chosen spot character I spoke to him about the additional text he wanted to be added to the image. Given that my piece was going to be included in an independently run and produced zine, he wanted the image to feel a little like that too in the attitude of the image. A mixture somewhere between indie music zines and a high end celebrity front cover.
With this in mind I wrote out a few article headlines geared towards a primarily female, music industry interested audience. The client also wanted a name for the magazine, and after a process of elimination, decided upon GURLZ. It was important the aesthetic of the magazine matched with the strong female mentality of the Gertie Harry character. Too ooze a degree of sex appeal and edgy-ness; music meets glamour.
Composition & Final touches
Compositionally I looked back at some magazine covers to help with the positioning of text and how it would interact with the image of Gertie. I looked at magazine covers such as Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan ect to see how the text was layered with the image. Given that Gertie was of central focus in this image it made sense for her to sit in the centre of the frame with slight text overlaying her. The addition of a barcode and slight touch ups of the image finished it off; with the image complete I sent it to the client for it to be placed in context of the zine!
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