Construction of Double Page Spread
Using InDesign, I set up my double page spread and inserted the image that I wanted to use at a rough size, because I decided it would be better to play around first.
On the facing page, I put in my text and created a text box. The colour of the text box was taken from the lips of the subject in my image and I thought the colour worked.
I then put in page numbers along the bottom. I also wrote the name of the magazine along the bottom of both pages because I noticed that this is what real magazines do, and I did this in the font that my front page consists of to create continuity and give the idea that the pages all belong to one magazine. I then wrote an opening quote to my article above it in a text box. The font I used is like that used in a circus, which could possibly hold connotations relating to the music industry and performances being like an act or show, which my magazine could skim past to show readers the real article. In the same colour as the text box, I put "in the land of Tuesday..." on the opposing page. It overlaps the subject and I like the placing of it because I think that page could look like a real magazine, but I don't think it looks quite like a real music magazine.
To try and overcome this I put my article into two columns. I kept the font as "Times New Roman", despite it being quite a plain font because this is what I liked about it. I wanted the text to look as though it had come off a typewriter, or from an older music magazine where the text was plain and simple because it is of the most importance. I also made the image bigger so that it covers a whole page, as I thought the border round the edge didn't look very effective. I'm not sure if it's really exciting enough, however, because although I wanted it to be quite simple, I'm not sure if it just looks boring instead. Although, to try and solve this problem, I held a focus group of 10 people, to ask them what else they would do to the double page spread, or if they would change anything about it. 9 out of 10 of them said that they liked it the way it was, with the only small suggestion of playing around with the font of the bulk of the article and moving around the text on the left hand side of the page to see if it could look better anywhere else. From this, I think my double page spread will appeal to my target audience and I will play around with the placing of things.
Using InDesign, I set up my double page spread and inserted the image that I wanted to use at a rough size, because I decided it would be better to play around first.
On the facing page, I put in my text and created a text box. The colour of the text box was taken from the lips of the subject in my image and I thought the colour worked.
I then put in page numbers along the bottom. I also wrote the name of the magazine along the bottom of both pages because I noticed that this is what real magazines do, and I did this in the font that my front page consists of to create continuity and give the idea that the pages all belong to one magazine. I then wrote an opening quote to my article above it in a text box. The font I used is like that used in a circus, which could possibly hold connotations relating to the music industry and performances being like an act or show, which my magazine could skim past to show readers the real article. In the same colour as the text box, I put "in the land of Tuesday..." on the opposing page. It overlaps the subject and I like the placing of it because I think that page could look like a real magazine, but I don't think it looks quite like a real music magazine.
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