Double Page Spread Research

I have been looking at various double page spreads from a variety of different music magazines which include Kerrang! Mojo and Q. The reason I have analysed these magazines in particular is because they all base their genre of music on either rock or indie; by researching the double page spreads they will help me gain a better understanding of how I will create my own magazine and thinking about ideas and ways of constructing my double page spread.

Although all three of the magazines are structured professionally they all seem to be very different as Kerrang! is laid out as an informal interview whereas the Mojo and Q magazine are set out as an article on the bands they're focusing on. In my opinion, the double page spread on Kasabian in the Q magazine seems to be more appealing as the publishers have used a variety of different images and text sizes which attract the reader as well as making the stories stand out to them. They have they have pulled out significant quotes as this will indicate the important parts of the article. In my double spread I will make sure I pull out all the important quotes to draw the readers attention and draw them into reading the whole article itself and I will put the quotes much bolder and in a different colour to make it stand out more to the person reading my magazine.

The Q magazine is quite appealing but I also like the fact that Kerrang! have structured their story as an interview between the band members and the interviewer; I feel this is a good way to structure my magazine as I can make the language more informal to help portray the idea that the musicians are young and carefree which initially links to the stereotypical audience of my magazine.

As well as making my language in my magazine informal I will also make it colloquial to enable my reader's to feel more engaged with the story they are reading about and find it more interesting as they can connect with the band members they're reading about.

As there are individual pictures of the band members on the double page spread it's giving me the idea to take photos of each of the people from the two bands I am focusing on and place them on both the right and left hand side of the page. This will help the reader gain a better understanding of the people who are in the bands that my magazine will be interviewing.