Sunday, 29 March 2009

Double page spread analysis

I am now analysing a double page spread which is usually the main article in a magazine and therefore needs two pages to contain all the information. The artist in question in the edition of the magazine is kid rock.
A double page spread layout varies in different magazines, unlike the contents page, it has a big main image of the artist symetrically between two half-naked women. This is a sign of power an high income of which kid rock has. On the opposite page is a Q and A session with kid rock that was obtained via an earlier interview. Q and A sessions are good for magazines as they show how the artist personally responds to questions for the audience to read an make a connection with. It gives a better insight compared to a review which just an opinion of the author writing the article.
Since the language is in a conversation style due to it being directly dictated from an interview, it is written in a very informal style.
The colours and layout are very simplistic. It uses blue and white as its main colours. The picture is a bit darker adding in black. The blue and white give the impression that this is just a normal conversation and pretty standard. The left hand side doesn’t do anything to try and drag the reader over there so the magazine must want the reader to mainly be focused on the image.
The page does its job of informing people on how the interview went, however it could of been made more interesting with a more varied colour scheme or maybe a coulple of images amoungst the text would attract he reader more. I will take this point into consideration when making my own double page spread.

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