Final Double Page Spread

This is my final double page spread, from the mock ups it is clear that I have changed some of the layout but done this to match the double page spread which I looked at for my research. This includes have two images instead of one. Once again I have used the base colours for my magazine, I believe I have used each colour enough so that it doesn’t appear that there were two main colours instead of three. This is because in my content page I never included any of the colour blue so I used mainly used blue and black for my double page spread to even out the colour usage. I think that the layout is eye catching because of the two images used and it is uncluttered. When I was first doing my double page spread I was following the mock up with the red boarder but felt that something was missing which is why I decided to add another image. I saw that in my research the magazine had an image on both the right and left side of the page and thought that this was appealing and gave would give my double page spread the look which I wanted. As many of the double page spreads appeared to be in a column I thought hat I should follow this structure as there was no reason to go against this convention when it’s an interview. The pull quote is written in a different colour to make it stand out; this is also the reason why it is slightly slanted. To limit the amount of colours on the page I decided to make it red because it was not a main colour on the page and makes it stand out as well as allowing me to not use a forth colour. Some things I did not include for example a drop cap because I didn’t think that it was suitable for an interview which is structured the way mine is. This is because If I included it for one I would feel as if I needed to do it for the rest and believe that this would not look good. The pull quote is “never give up” because I think it is the most powerful words which are used in the interview and anybody can try and do this so it appealing and easy to remember. The next reason why this is the pull quote is because if a person was too look over the page and see those words I think that they may want to read the rest of the article. Overall I like the way my double page spread has turned out and think that researching and having a number of mock ups was the reason why I was able to achieve this.

From the last draft there have been some changes and this is because more questions needed to be put in place because the font needed to be smaller. I changed the font used for the slug to match the one used on the front cover because I wanted to link it back to my magazine. This font is also used for my pull quote and other information at the bottom of the page. All of these are in the colour red.
Before I did not have any title or information on the artist so I added this to the top of the double page spread as it is something that is within a standard magazine. The font used that says “Tama” is called “Klinton Blade” and is used for Tama mainly. I have also added a page number and this reflects the page which it says the interviews start on in my magazine.