The double page spread

When I started designing my double page spread I first had to do some research to find out the conventions for a reggae magazine article. I looked for the style and content usually found in found in reggae articles. As I said in my market research, there are very few reggae magazine and (to my knowledge) none in the UK. So I decided to look at online reggae magazines. I would then transfer the style of articles used on website to my magazine. After having gotten a feel for the conventions for a reggae music article I then wrote my own interview with the reggae artist Ollie Adewusi.

Once I had written my article I then turned back to my final rough design, which for the most part I decided to stick to. I used Adobe Indesign and decided to work on an A3 page (420 mm x 297 mm). I used one image as the background for the A3 page. After having gone through all the photos i had taken i choose the one i thought was best and the two colleagues i asked agreed. It was a photo of the artist Ollie Adewusi sitting on a chair playing the guitar, looking very majestic shall we say. I used photoshop to edit and resize the image. I also had to use the clone tool to get rid of a glare on the guitar created by the camera flash.
I placed the image so that Ollie’s (the reggae artist) face specifically his nose was just to the right of the centre mark for the double page spread. I did this so that when the A3 page was printed and folded up you would still be able to clearly see his face.

I then entered the title, ‘Ollie Adewuse’s new album, “The Jungle,”’ which stretched across the A3 page (as a result would stretch across both A4 pages). I used the guide lines function in Indesign (they don’t show up on printed version) to create four text columns (2 on each side). Once i had typed up the article in the four columns i then changed the text to a medium/ light green so it would stand out from the black/ grey background and be easier to read.
I wanted to make the text wrap around the image of Ollie (the reggae artist) to give the page a more integrated look. So i used the Indesign ‘text wrap’ function. I added several nodes around his body and then change there position to wrap around. This allowed the text to go right up to the image put not cross over it. It wrapped round as the function suggests.

Below is an image of my final double page spread design.



After i had added page number in the bottom left and right third of the page I was finished. I had now completed the double page spread and therefore my music magazine. I now moved on to the conclusion and evaluation.