Double Page Spread

So that I had a rough idea of what kind of things a double page spread for teens contained, I looked at one from TOP OF THE POPS magazine. It was all about a disney channel film called Camp Rock, which starred the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato. I simply went through the DPS and noted all of the things that jumped out immediately that should be present on my DPS too. I wrote about what I liked, what I didn't, and what I want to take from it into my magazine.

I then did a brainstorm of ideas that my DPS could have in it, and managed to come up with enough to fill the two pages! (check my blue book for more details!)

Because no person, 9-16 years of age or older, will want to look at a page filled with writing, I decided to choose some pictures that would be appropriate for my double page spread.

Before I began my DPS I did do a photoshoot of Wildflies to use. There were three photos from the shoot that really stood out as ones I'd want to use. They were one of Emma with a guitar, one of the three of them, and one of Charlie playing drums in a tree. Because Ellie features on the front cover, and I want them (as I said about my album) to appear as an equal persona, I needed to share out the limelight on the page. This meant that Ellie didn't have an individual photograph to make it fair.

I analysed each photo in depth in my book, and explained what they mean and why I want to use them!!

After I had worked out what pictures I wanted, I needed to make the contents and layout final. I brainstormed again what ideas I had, but this time delved really deep to see what I could come up with!

For finalising my layout, I cut out two magazine DPS's and took out bits of the layout I liked. I then combined them into two versions, and stemmed from those created my final layout design in my book.

I made my double page spread on Microsoft word because it's very familiar. I edited the photographs in photoshop, but didn't use the program to create the whole dps.

I used century gothic for my text, like I did with the contents page because I really liked the way the text appeared really girly! I made the title into a really simple font because I wanted a lot of the attention on the photograph next to it of Wildflies.

In my big blue book, I talk through why I have chosen certain phrases, colours and questions to be part of my dps. I printed it out and analysed around it - Check it out!