Double page spread altered.

When looking back at my ideas i felt i hadn't included many images and therefore shown a large range of photography skills, so i decided to take some more last minuet images. I felt images were needed of my double page spreads writer, photographer and fashion designer as this is convention of popular music magazines its commonly used in news papers to place an image of the article writers. I felt in this magazine that the article writers are just as important as the band or artist them selves being interviewed, so a little imaged placed near the names of the writer, photographer and fashion designer just to show their importance in this article. Iv also used the same image editing as the big image of the band to bring the all features of the page together nicely. 

Double page spread progress.

My double page spread ideas were developed from my draft but i wanted to start from blank. As this time i was more influence by clash i tried to interpret some of their double page spread features. I started with featuring the articles writer, photography and fashion of the double page spread to make my magazine look like a real magazine and professional.

I also wanted to place a pull quote on my double page spread but not in the article as i don't find that effective with my style i am going for. So i decided to place a catchy quote from my article at the top of the page in a bigger and bolder font then the actual article text and any other text appearing on my pages.

Like all common basic articles i had to place a title somewhere so as inspired by clash i copied their article title layout of being in a bigger bolder text and just above the article and towards the center of the page, to make it look more different and unique to common conventional music magazines.

Then to add my article, as i knew my whole article wouldn't be placed on the double page spread what was going to be shown would have to be what attracts the reader the most to carry on through the magazine to read the rest of the article on this music band. The layout of my text was inspired my clash as well, as their layouts are simply but different which is that that will attract my indie/alternative, indie scenesters target audience. So i copied their text layout having the first line of text shorter than the second line of text and starting from the left.

My image was then placed on the other side of the page filling this page. I decided to do some editing to this image i was using as it was an image showing the whole band but it was only the lead that was being interview in this part of the article. I thought having the whole band showing would show the readers the whole picture that they are wanting to know reading this article. In the editing of this image i decided to create the image black and white, but then thought that was too obvious and common, so instead i added a bit of warmth to the image, making it look more grey. 

I decided to make this double page look real and professional to add a piece of text at the bottom of the image explaining whats in the image and who the models are. I thought this would look really effective as it shows my thoughts and ideas into the little details needed on a double page spread to look professional.

Then finally the finished touches are the page numbers. Like with my contents page and how clash place their page numbers i placed mine in the middle of the two pages to the side, this looks professional and makes my magazine unique for its own take on layouts and designs.

Research into double page spread.

All these images are examples of some of clashes most popular double page spreads which i am very much influenced by. I really like the simply and spacious layout of their article and i think its suits my genre and simplistic look i am working towards. I knew from the start of this project that i would have an image filling the whole other page of my double page spread but because i don't think i could fit my whole article onto one page i have decided to create a single separate page that would flow with my double page spread to show the whole of my article and writing skills. I feel even the fonts used are simply, the pieces of information given on the page that they want to read to notice first to entice them are bigger and bolder text then the actual article and information text is smaller and tightly organised to look professional and like an article. Even clashes photography work used on their double page spread are inspirational, their main focus is the models faces and facial expression, which all seem to be serious as their articles are always serious and the magazine them self want to be taken seriously with the information they are given to the readers. All this features are inspiring to my designing of my double page spread and single article page.

Magazine final draft.

These are my final drafts of my front cover, contents page and double page spread. I was able to use all the correct fonts i wanted accept for my double page spread i had to change the front to be more readable as the font couldn't fit on that one page i wanted the text to be placed. So then i had to change the font of the contents page and look like it all came from the same magazine. I am unhappy about my images as they all show shadows due to the lack of lighting i had available and that all my models didn't turn up so i had to improvise and only take an image of two of them for the contents page when their should be four of them, an image of the whole band. I shall be doing my photos again for my final design so thats its exactly what i want it to be and look like.

I did hand in my double page spread with the article written on it but due to complications with the software i used to put the article on the page layout i made on photoshop i couldn't place the final design on my blog, i should be able to after to its been marked on paper.

Draft of my double page spread.

This is a draft of my design for my magazine double page spread, but i haven't taken any real images i may use so i found some fake images as examples. Also the fonts used on this draft are not the fonts i shall be using, they are look a likes of my fonts.

Magazine mock up.

This is my mock up for my cover page design. i was influenced by I-D magazine to place my magazine title in the top left hand corner of the page on its side going down the page, i find this really effective and unique. As i have chosen my magazine style to be simplistic i kept my cover page simply, with a masthead, main image filling the whole page and a cover line. 

This is my mock up of my contents page. i was influenced by the contents pages i research, i haven't placed the word contents page on here because i want it to look simplistic and unique. the layout is pretty basic, iv only used one image which i was debating weather to place filling the whole page half of the page or just in the right hand side at the top of the page. i found this look really effective, with more information on the contents page about the pages in my magazine.

This is a mock up of my double page spread, again iv kept it simply. Iv used just the one image filling the whole left and side page and using little quotes on both pages to attract the readers to read the full article. while i have placed the title of the interview at the top of the right hand side page and my magazine title small in the right hand corner which will be on ever page of the magazine as well as the page number too.

Analysis of double page spread.

Analysis of Double Page Spread