Developement of Double page spread

This is the Final version of my double page spread. I decided that the previous version was to plain and boring and compared to my previous pages didn't represent the punk rock genre because the colours and style were plain. I decided to edit the photo slightly to bring more colour in to the image. I decided to use purple again because I think this represents the genre well,I used a similar purple on my front cover and it stands out from the background well. To make the purple stone and band members stand out more I burned the trees behind them, this darkened them and added to the mood as well as adding contrast. I changed the "We talk to them about their success story" and the "we didn't realise we were this talented" text to blue using the same colour as one of the band member's  (Dan Febry) trousers, this tied the image in with the double page spread nicely. I added text on to the stone in the image, just to add more detail to the double page spread. The other thing I changed was the colour of the "Tour dates" column to purple this was to carry on the blue and purple colour scheme. Lots of music magazines, on their double page spread have a separate column which is about a subject which isn't related to the main topic. I decided to followed this convention because I wanted to add variety to the page's and make it look more professional. I am a bit disappointed with how small the margins are next to my article but if I deleted some of the text it would disrupt the layout and if I made it smaller it would be too hard to read.

The next stage was to add the text. I had already written the text on word so all I had to was copy the text in to photoshop. When I first added the text I had it in one big block but then when I looked back at the research I had done, they all had the text in columns so to make mine look like a professional magazine I changed mine to two columns and  put a black line in between to make a distinct divide between the columns and because the double page spread I had research and I was using as a model had this feature as well. I thought something was missing and I decided to highlight a key phrase in red with a black box using the same style as the "we talk to them about there success story", another  reason for including this was the double page spread I was using as a model had this feature as well.

I did change the position and the text itself of the "How the made it to the top..." because I felt that by being at the top of the page as a header was too restricting on the layout and it didn't make the double page spread look similar or as good as the double page spread I was emulating. To help it look more like the one I was emulating and make the "we talk to them about there success story" text stand out I added a black box behind the text. I decided to change the angle of the "fatality" title which I got from the Paramore double page spread I researched
to make it look a bit more edgy.

 I decided to try and use the colour scheme of the contents page and have black, red and white because I thought it would suit the double page spread well. Most of the magazines I had researched had a large image dominating the page and I decided I wanted to use this convention and have a large image to the left of the double page spread, this is something I didn't change through out my development as it allowed me to fit the rest of the pieces around the image, it gave me a platform to work from. This is the same with my previous pages the image came first in the design. I then started to add the main bits of text the two titles.

Photo decision for double page spread

This is an edit for when I previously considered this image for my double page spread. I am not too keen on this edit as it looks a bit bleak and the purple grass doesn't work too well as it has bits of blue in it. I quite like the cold, gloomy mood it creates which reflects the band members expression. I didn't think this image would suit my double page spread however so I decided not to use it.

This is the first edited version of the image for my double page spread. I did like the way I had edited this image because it looked quite clean and clear but this didn't really follow and create the mood I wanted. At the time that I edited this image I thought it was fine and put it in to my double page spread and started to piece it all together as you will see with my layout experiments above but when it was nearly all completed I thought that the double page spread was lacking something, I realised the image was too plain and boring, this meant that it didn't follow the grungy, punk rock look I was trying to create in my magazine.

This is the edited image that I chose for the double page spread because after trying the above, I felt that the double page spreading was lacking a bit of colour it was a bit boring and my solution was to change the colour of the stone structure they were sitting on and to darken the trees using the burn tool, this meant there was a higher contrast between the brighter band members on the purple stone structure and the background. The burned trees added to the dark bleak mood that comes across in this image.

 This photo that I selected did suit the look and layout I wanted to create; it was easy to crop to fit in to the layout as it wasn't too rectangular. I chose this photo because I liked the setting, the rural, grungy look and the fact the band members are on  higher ground, this relates well to the article in the double page spread which is about them reaching the top of the music business. It symbolises their success and none of the other images were able to do this in the same way. It represents their background and where they grew up in the outskirts of Bristol. The only difficulty with this image was how I was going to edit the image to make it look unique.

Double Page Spread Photo Options

These are the best of the remaining photos from my two photo shoots, they all have an individual style but I needed an image which would suit the layout and style I wanted to use.

This is a good image because the colour scheme suits the band members and style I was trying to create, the black and white. I really like the graffiti its a very clear, eye catching image. However the angle that the image was take doesn't look that good and again as with the previous image it would have been difficult to crop the image enough to fit in to the layout where I wanted it to. The red bollards block out some of the image which means I would of had to chop that bit off.

I think this photo does look good because of the colourful graffiti behind the band members but I felt that this image was too similar to the images I used on the contents page and front cover, despite this because I liked the image I tried the image out to see how it would work with the layout I was trying to create. However it didn't work out the size of the image was wrong for the space I wanted to use and because the band members took up a lot of the image I couldn't crop it much to make it fit. It was a shame not to use this image because it is really striking but none of the designs I had in mind suited the image. There is all most too much colour to be able to make use of the image.

This photo is nice because of the divide between the park and the building site the background adding a bit of variation to the photo. I didn't like the way the band members were positioned and because of their quirky look they look a bit out of place and the setting didn't represent the Punk  rock genre very well.

This photo I like because of the casual pose the band members adopted and the rural setting but I think the background is a bit messy and not clear cut, giving the picture a distorted look. If I was going to use this photo I would either have to remove the background or blur it out and neither of those options seemed right for what I was trying to create.