Designing The Double Page Spread

To start off with, I needed to put together the general structure of the double page spread. I started off by putting in the main photo of Scarlet, because I knew that the text would have to fit around this image. I obviously did not want it to be centred in the two pages so i decided it would go on the left hand side of the page. I used the rectangular marquee tool to put blocks of black on the side and top of the page to frame the spread, and to give me a space to write the title of the article. When I was researching music magazines that are already on the market, I saw that basically all of the interviews in them had titles that were made up of quotes from the interview. The quote acts as a lure to draw readers into the article as they will want to know what the context of the quote is, especially of the quote is quite ambiguous and mysterious.

I also drop shadowed the main photo to give it a bit more definition and a 3D effect.

Next i started to add part of my interview to see how I had to lay it out. I added another photo to the right hand corner of the page and played about with the idea of a fact file about the artist I am interviewing.