This double spread page from the NME magazine is similar to one of my initial ideas. This was to have a tall(ish) image on one page with the text on the other. This would be so the double spread article (like the one above) would be balanced due to colour as the dark colours from the images (similar to the darkness of my images) would contrast and large expanse of light from the text filled page. This would make the pages more readable to the viewer and would make the picture more visibly appealing.
The reason I have decided not to go with this idea is because of the images I have taken. They are all relatively dark and pixelated so unless I do a lot of drastic improvements on my taken photos then I’ll have to look for an alternative double spread idea.
Also something that I would change is the fact that the main text surrounds the pull quote. I would probably have more than one pull quote so this wouldn’t work plus I think it makes the page seem too formal for a magazine. The title I feel is also too big but this would have meant that there was lots of empty space where even more text would be placed. This would drag out the article and is NOT what I wish to do on my article.
Because my article is a gig review then it would of course have different text and so would probably have a separated box with the score of the gig (like 5 out of 5 or something similar) so the text would probably go around that.
The reason I have decided not to go with this idea is because of the images I have taken. They are all relatively dark and pixelated so unless I do a lot of drastic improvements on my taken photos then I’ll have to look for an alternative double spread idea.
Also something that I would change is the fact that the main text surrounds the pull quote. I would probably have more than one pull quote so this wouldn’t work plus I think it makes the page seem too formal for a magazine. The title I feel is also too big but this would have meant that there was lots of empty space where even more text would be placed. This would drag out the article and is NOT what I wish to do on my article.
Because my article is a gig review then it would of course have different text and so would probably have a separated box with the score of the gig (like 5 out of 5 or something similar) so the text would probably go around that.