The next product that Im going to create is the double page spread. The double page spread needed to follow similar themes that I used in when creating my other products. My article that I constructed is about an actor whom is local about to perform at the Minack Theatre. So first of all I picked out my favourite image of Minack Theatre. when shooting on this day I was looking that the weather was so nice as the sky was clear and left the sea nice and blue and vibrant. This would work well for my double page spread as I will be able to position text over these areas.
The first problem that I noticed is that with the image previously positioned the way it was when I added in my text in it would not look as neat. So I rotated the image around the other way and planned out how I was going to lay out the text. I always wanted the text to overlay the sea and the sky and with the image rotated this way it would work easier for me. I was going to place the title of the double page spread and a small paragraph of text on the left and the main bulk of the text split down into two columns. I also added in a thin temporary black line in the middle of the page where the fold of the page would be so I knew not to overlap these line.
First step was adding in the title of the double page spread. I did place this is the top left of the double page spread in a bold and a contrasting italic font choice. I was going to have this text in white but it would not be clearly seen over the background and therefore I made it black which is fine because I did this with my front cover and that worked well.
The next step was only a small step which included just adding in a couple of line underneath the title. This was a feature that is included in a lot of double page spreads and therefore I decided to adapt this feature to my work. I also decided to keep this is a black text font as I wanted to keep some sort of theme throughout the page.
Adding in the first paragraph was the next step. The article as a whole is a interview but this paragraph is more an introduction to what the interview was about. So I felt like this would be perfect to fit underneath the title and then the interview would fit on the next page of the double page spread. The only problem here is I needed to create a text box that wouldn't overlap the structure of the theatre as the text is hard to to read otherwise.
Eventually I managed to make this possible and the text fit perfectly by covering all the dead space while not overlapping the mid point of the double page spread or neither the structure of the theatre. This looks really effective there and again I decided to keep the text black and I would only use white text for the interview.
I already had the full article written up so all I had to do was to copy the text over into two columns. The two columns were easy enough to draw up and then all I had to do was reduce the size of the text so it all matches and then change the font style into the same one used throughout the whole of the double page spread. When adding in my interview I decided to leave the reporters words in black and the interviewee's words in white so that the audience could clearly identify the difference between the two.
The final step was to add in some features in order to make my double page spread look really professional and appealing to my target audience. Looking at double page spread lifestyle magazines I realised that a lot of them which had interviews did include an image of the interviewee. So I added in a small image at the end of the interview which I gave a white boarder to make it stand out against the background and not to get lost into the background. Furthermore I added in the name in a bold white text underneath. The final feature was to add in page numbers just to make it look more professional. I also added in the web address of my magazine along with the page number as this was conventional for a regional magazine.
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