Double Page Spread draft and commentary.

Double Page spread draft one

Chosen title font.

I decided to go with this font because it really stands out in the page due to it being a decorative font. Its also quite thin which allows more text to fit on. A phrase like ‘the new girl in town’ wouldn’t have been able to fit on A4 with other fonts, but the Thinness enables it to. The font is simple, yet sophisticated.

Article and Pull quote

I decided to do my article in the format of that the person being interviewed gives their opinion on things. I got the inspiration from the NME double page spread that I analysed. Firstly, I did an introduction to the artist/musician so that the readers could gain some background information about them if that had never heard of them before. I also talked about past achievements to make the artist look quite well-known and big in the music industry. Doing it in the format of the musicians opinions helped me to show the artists independent s and I could create a persona and certain characteristics for the musician.(My article is available to read on my blog.)

I decided to use this as my pull quote because it says a lot about the musician in the one sentence. It shows the tough side to her from the swear word and it shows nicer side to her as it says she ‘used’ to be like that.

Photos

I decided not to choose this photo because on the angle of the photo. I was experimenting with different angles and positions and I feel that an above angle doesn’t work and neither does the background. The pose of the model isn't strong enough although she does have direct eye contact with the camera. If I used this picture, there wouldn’t have been enough space for text and it may not have fit well on an A4 page. …..

I decided not to choose this photo because of the positioning of the person in the picture. The picture is too close and my aim was to leave enough space at the side for my article and the rest of my double page spread. Other than that, I like the picture, particularly the facial expression and the positioning of her hands. .

This picture was good for the double page spread as there's plenty of space on the right for the article. I particularly like the expression on the models face, however, the flash is a bit too much on the models face. The pose isn't particularly strong either and this lets the picture down. The background is a bit too busy as well.

This picture is good because of the positioning in the photo, it leaves the perfect amount of space for the article to fit in on the right hand side. The posing of the model is quite strong and so is the direct eye contact. However, the background is too busy and the wood doesn’t match the rest of the double page spread. The flash has also gone too much on the models face and the camera has also caused the model to have ‘red-eye’.

This photo leaves a good amount of space on the right for the article to fit and the facial expression is good as it shows a ‘cheeky’ side to the musician. However, the background is too noisy and the bench is showing the bottom right hand corner. Also, the picture isn't completely in focus. I could use just the model for the table of contents to show ‘behind the scenes’.

This is quite a good picture, however, the lighting is completely wrong because the flash wasn’t on. I experimented to try and get different tones to the other pictures. When trying to alter the contrast/lightness of Photoshop, it didn’t work and it just looked unnatural. If I used it I would have changed the background colour to black to merge with the rest of the background.

Other pictures from the shoot.

Chosen photo

I chose this photo because of the facial expression on the person. The squinting of her eyes and the tensing of her jaw make her seem quite tough and vicious which is exactly the persona that I wanted to get through in my article. The background was dark enough for me to darken to black to blend in with the background, rather than having the whole picture as the background.

EditingI had to edit the lighting to make it appear not so bright and the flash was too much on her face so I changed the contrast. I edited out some blemishes and different toned skin to make her skin appear clearer. I also lifted up her chin slightly. I layered the background and turned to contrast down to make it black to match the rest of the background and make the text more visible. I slightly angled the positioning of the corner of her left eyebrow to add to the tough attitude and persona of the picture. With the clone stamp tool I added in colour to one of her rings because it has lost a jewel. I also used the clone stamp tool to hide her vest top underneath as it was showing and it didn’t really fit the picture.

Eye flow

My double page spread fits the eye flow. I purposely put the picture of the left hand side as that is one of the main places the readers eyes are drawn to. The leading text is the first thing the reader is drawn to and this is good as the leading text gives you an insight into the article and musician. To make the eye flow better I could pull the anchor down a bit and possibly the text, so that the title will be noticed by the reader.