Double page spread

 

For the first step of my double page I decided to have the background grey to co-ordinate with the magazine's theme, then added a photo of my artist in the middle, I realised after I placed this photo that when the page would fold my artist would be cut in half, but due to my design I decided to keep it like that. After the first stage was completed I decided to add my Polaroids, I used the ruler tool on photo shop to limit the area I could put my Polaroids in, so I would still have enough space to put in my interview. Due to the space I gave I was able to rotate some slightly for a less edgy effect, I believe that the spacing an angles of the Polaroids were good as they were to plan and looked professional, the colours were varied which made them stand out on the grey background and obviously the white Polaroid frame went in line with the theme colours of my magazine. I left more of a gap on the right hand side of the Polaroids for I had made an album cover which the interview is promoting as well as finding out more about my artist.

The third step was to add the album cover and a small message stating when the album was available to buy and download, I decided to add the download option as with current times more albums are being downloaded from the Internet rather than being brought. I used a red rectangular shape and then white text for contrast and to keep up the theme. The album cover I believe is very indie fitting, the colours of sepia I used and the font are very rough and rugged along with the nature of what the artist is doing (holding a guitar walking away from a train station, which in the interview you'll see that's how the artist started out). I aligned this well and left me with enough space for my interview.

For the interview I decided to split it into three columns, for the opening column I used black to highlight the fact its the start of the article, I made the first letter of the article a lot bigger than the rest as this a common trait used in magazine articles/interviews. For the questions I used red for the question being asked and white for the answer. I believe that this was a good choice for it contrasted on the background and again kept up with the theme. It wasn't until I got to the last column I realised I was running out of space, so I made the font smaller by 2pt and worked, it was still readable and in proportion with the page, I used the same font than the front cover and contents again for the theme, after this I double checked the columns were aligned perfectly and there you have the final product.