Double Page Spread / Step By Step Guide

I began with a blank document that was double (in width lengths) my cover and contents page, so the pages would all fit together like a real music magazine product.

Then I put in a black rectangle after breaking apart what the middle of the page would look like. I felt starting from one end of the double page spread would allow me to work out spacing better.

Then I added this part as an introduction to what the article would be about. I took inspiration from ‘Dazed and Confused’ with this part of the magazine. I liked the trendy usage of the hash tag, The hash tag and the quote ‘BOUND TO BE STUDENTS’ would especially be recognisable from my target audience.

The next thing I did was add the title of the article. The main part of my article, I had decided was going to be on the right hand side of the double page spread, because that would be the side that would be natural for the human eye to feel comfortable reading the most of. This is why I placed the title here. The sub heading: ‘TIME FOR A NEW LEAD IN GIRL POP’ was meant to attract the audiences’ attention as it reads ‘NEW LEAD’ and I had all the lettering in a bold an capitalised font.

I added the photograph in an almost staggered position against the subheading of ‘incoming aeonian’. I thought this would look better as I would then go back into place with the sub heading ‘FROM 6 SECOND VINES TO ARTIST OF THE TIMES’, (as the 2 pieces of text are lined up). The photograph is a large part of what is eye catching so far about my double page spread. I think I made it a reasonable size that contributed to the overall layout of the double page spread.

The credit to who wrote the article and who took the photos give the photograph and double page spread as a whole some professionalism. This is why I made such an effort to make it look good by using a variety of BOLD and un BOLD font types. I thought this matched the genre of the magazine well and was clear for the audience to take note of, but also small and subtle in comparison with the main body of text.

This part of the article was just a small introduction to what the magazine was going to feature (the girl band). I wanted to keep it short and snappy and a little something for the readers to skim to see if they were interested in reading on or not. It provides all the basic information about the girls and also allows the audience to know as much about them in 4 or 5 sentences as another article in another magazine may offer. Some of the words and phrases are in BOLD and this is to indicate the things that they girls have said personally as a band. They are in BOLD to not only examine the difference, but to allow the audience to pin point the quotes the girls have said in the interview, so the audience et a quick feel for the band before maybe reading the whole article about them.

I put the main quote in at this point because I wanted to create the other parts of the text to go around it. This was so the quote would be the centre piece of the text. It is also blue and therefore draws the audiences’ attention to the quote. Blue being my main choice of colour theme went with the look of the magazine too. Pops of colour is something I was aiming for. The quote itself makes the girls seem like modest people by what it actually says, so the content.

I then put in the rest of the text around the quote. I put the quote in first because I knew it would be easier to then fit the other information around it. The parts in BOLD are the quotes that the girls have said and this usage of graphology allows the audience to be captured by one feature of the text and hopefully recognise that this is something the band ahs contributed to.

This black box with writing inside corresponds to the black box at the top left of the page. I wanted to include a little promotion for the band on the double page spread to make it a bit more realistic. The font type is the same as the sub-heading for the article and also the ‘incoming…’ introduction.

The photo contributed to the variety of types of photos used from the artist in the magazine. This is why, even though it is small, it represents the different personalities from the girls, because they’re having fun in the photo. It also helps add up to a total of 3 photos of the band on the double page spread.

The two items at the bottom of this side of the page managed to enable the page to be spilt into 3 sections; box, photo, text and then box and a photo again (but opposite sides) to make the page more attractive and fun looking, layout wise.

The second piece of the article was put onto this side of the double page spread (pg 35 of the magazine). I changed the layout by placing the text for the article in a coloured box and placing the photograph underneath it.