The Creation - DPS

I decided to start with the double page spread as I had quite a few different ideas that I wanted to try out and I felt that if made this one first, it would give me some ideas, a colour scheme and general theme for the front cover and contents page.

After looking at the Mojo DPS (it was my main inspiration) I felt the photo needed to be the main feature. It needed to stand out and make a statement for that artist.

First draft:

Here I was experimenting with the composition of images and the colours that could be used. I used this font as I wasn't able to download my chosen one on the school computers and this fitted well. I really like this combination of images. These haven't been edited yet but I hope I can include them as they are quite serene and go really well with the personality of the musician in my article. I didn't complete this page as I had many ideas on the go and felt my next one was more effective.

Draft 2:

This is my second draft. I really liked this image and felt that by placing it to the side, it would provide that strong single image that works well in the other magazines. (However, I would have liked to use this image for the contents and maybe front cover as well, but we all know that isn't possible...) This page is a bit of a mess as I was still experimenting with ways of extending the wall to the other page to create a background. The first draft had a preset publisher background, but I wanted to create my own so I took a strip from the top of this image and pasted it more times on the first page.

Draft 3:

This draft includes the font that I wanted to use and was popular on my feedback. The text goes off the page here, but these are the columns that I want to have and have produced pull quotes to break up the text more. I have also started to add font capital letters to the start of certain paragraphs.

Teacher's comments:

• Eloise Smith- add a headline
  
• Maybe one more colour for capital letters (in font) and pull quotes.

Final draft:

I took the advice of my class and teacher and produced my final draft of the double page spread. I had to blur the background more than I already had as the text was a tad hard to read. I included red pull quotes in the same font as the title and added in an extra caption to engage the attention of the reader. As I mentioned earlier, I managed to include that selection of edited photos. This allowed me to include a variety of images and break up the text neatly and interestingly.

I will get more feedback on this final page and see how opinions have changed and see what else my target audience think could be improved.