Double Page Spread Research Introduction

What have I learnt from the lesson?

• The image is always bigger and more important. It often spans the centre line. 
• Your picture should tell a story, and this story should link to the image you are building for your star/artist. 
• The page needs to contain an article with lots of text. (E.g. interview)
• The image needs to be planned to suit the story.

For my magazine, my model artist will be based on the singer Nina Nesbitt; her story will inspire my artists interview, image and information in the article. 

Conventions of a double page spread:

• Drop down capital (NME even use it as a page divider)
• Large image (preferably on the left hand side, spanning the centre line)
• A smaller image among the text.
• A 'break out' quote taken from the text, made bigger, bold and capitalised. 
• Spine, the two pages are separated by a gap.
• Artist name/title should be huge and spread over the two pages.
• 3 columns of text, divided by something. (NME use faded dotty lines)
• 3 colour colour scheme, mixed around.
• Consistent fonts from front cover and contents page.
• Article writng is in serif-font.
• Title writing is in sans-serif font
• Large main image covers more than one page.
• Bottom right hand corner, tiny font magazine name and page number.