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.