Double Page Spread research.

Below is two double page spread's that I have deconstructed from Q and NME magazine. I chose to deconstruct these two double page spreads as they both come from magazines that match my genre and I decided that they would help with the construction of my double page spread. Deconstructing these double page spreads has helped me to recognise the common convention of magazine double page spreads.

DPS - Image Decision

I chose to use this as my final double page spread image as I liked that the model was smiling because It shows that she isn’t too serious. I also like that she is staring directly at the camera as it engages the reader. As well as her facial expression I like her stance as I feel it shows a bit of personality and makes the image more appealing than one where the model is standing with their arms awkwardly hanging at their sides.

DPS - Layout

Interview writing research.

DPS - Standfirst

These are some music magazine stand firsts that I found whilst conducting my research. I used some of the text as inspiration for my own stand first.

This is my stand first. It is fairly long as I found it difficult to summarise everything that I wanted to say in to shorter sentences. In my stand first I mentioned artist's that my artist was inspired by which I had already previously mentioned in my artist profile.

Contents page feedback

To gain feedback on my contents page, I handed out a print out of my contents page to my target audience and asked them to write their feedback on a sticky note.

Below is some of the feedback that I received:

Contents Page Colour Choices