Music magazine - High Voltage (double page)

The double page spread had me thinking for some time. I was wondering to myself many different things that my target market might expect or want. I have to think very carefully about; the layout on the double pages, the background, how much information should be on there, what sort of font will represent the band and the magazine and how many pictures should there be. Saying this, I only had to do two drafts of the double page spread because I liked the first one quite a lot and only needed to change a few things.



The background was simple, I chose a white background to give the magazine a little bit of diversity from black. This white background stayed the same for the second draft as well. The layout was rather easy to figure about as well. Sometimes in Kerrang they will have one whole page for a picture and all the writing on the other side. This is what I didn't want to do because I wanted the writing to be broken up but pictures so it wasn't in your face as much. This is when i started thinking about the number of pictures. I thought there should be one of each band member and one of them all together! this worked out well and also to my advantage because it broke up the text more. As for the interview, I asked them ten fairly simple questions and they gave their responses. This, thankfully, filled up the spaces that I had left for them. They did swear on occasions and, obviously, I can't post them on coursework but I did write the beginning letter and the end letter and then * the rest because in magazines, such as Kerrang, they would have out the swear word in. For the font for 'Fake Fiction' at the top left of the page I chose, yet again, HP PSG but this didn't turn out as planned and I changed this to AR DARLING which looked so much better and I think it fit in more with Fake Fiction's image. As always, I gave this page to people within my target market and asked them for their opinions. They all came back very positive and they said they found the colour scheme, which still followed the front cover and the contents page colour scheme, to be a good demonstration of creativity. I think this double page spread has gone well and I've enjoyed working with Fake Fiction to produce an end result that I am thoroughly pleased with.



Myroslava Terlecky