Double page spread- Feedback

Person 1:

I like how the big image is in colour but the others aren't. It creates interest in the page. 

Instead of making the name blue, make the entire title blue and add a black drop shadow to make it easier to read.

I like how you've kept all of the starting lines of text the same height even though there's room to go up. 

Either put a quote in the space above the last column or to the left of the main image.

Person 2:

It looks good but make the font further down to give you more room. 

Person 3: 

I like the images and the main images. The lines across the page looks good. I think in the space that's left, you should add either more text or a quote from the interview- but not an image and there's already a lot on the page and might look odd.

All of the people I asked to give me feedback said they think that there's too much space around the text. I want to add more text and put a quote under the last photo as well. Person 1 said they didn't like the heading and when asking other people to view it and say what they thought, they all agreed that it didn't flow as much as it could. Also, there's no relation between the page and the 2 different colours. I want to make the name of the girl both pink (to link to the questions) and shorter. 

Start of double page spread

Using the existing double page spread I looked at in my ideas, I used the shoot I did with Charley, edited some of the photos on photoshop, cut them out and put them in the spread on InDesign. Like the existing one, I made all of the black and white, apart from the biggest, main image. In the existing page I was looking at, there wasn't any other photos.

Changes to cover page

I asked 3 people to give me feedback from my cover page.

Person 1

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Looking at other magazines and using them to help

When looking on the internet for secondary images of Indie music magazine cover pages, I found this magazine. The cover is very simple, the background is plain and there aren't any cover lines. When making my cover page, I want to put cover lines on, as this is how people would be more interested in the magazine; it shows what you are about to read so they can decide weather or not the stories would interest them. However, I really liked the simplicity of the background and the image. The background cover is the same as the colour of the models lips, complimenting them and making them stand out more. The dark make-up, the top the model is wearing and the dark hair piece also all link together. Due to this, it makes these elements stand out more. I think that doing something like this would make my magazine look simple but really effective. 

I want to use this magazine for inspiration and ideas when designing and create my own cover. However, due to wanting cover lines, I looked further at more magazine covers to find another one that I liked- with cover lines. 

When looking for another magazine cover, I thought this was exactly what I was looking for. The cover lines are neat, organised and there isn't a wide variety of fonts- which I think make it looks better. I also liked the 3 photos to the left of the page- this is an advert of free posters inside- which will be a selling point for the magazine. This is one of the codes and conventions I thought were the best as it makes the reader feel like they're getting more for their money. As I've done another shoot other than Tori's and Charley's (the models I used for my cover page/contents page/double page spread) I can use these here.

Idea text for double page spread

For my double page spread, I want to carry out an interview with the model I used in my contents page. It will be as if she's a 'new and fresh' face in the Indie music genre and we're asking them about how they got there and what they're doing now. However, I want to do a short article as well. Below is an interview and article but will be improved and changed. For my contents page, I took images of a girl that I wanted the double page spread to be about. Due to this, I will either have to change the interview I planned to use below or make the story that they two people became one.

Interview

You're new, you're fresh and everyone's buzzing at the sound of your name. How does it feel to be the newest 'thing' around?

I can honestly tell you it feels so weird! I've never been given so much love from people I didn't know, can't say I don't love it though. It's been crazy!

It must feel like everything's happening so fast, well because it has! 

Yeah, sometime's it takes gig after gig to reach the top but it all happened so easily for me.

There's a lot of rumours on your story but tell us here first, what really happened? 

I started uploading videos of myself singing and playing the guitar on to YouTube. It wasn't just singing and playing the guitar though, I mixed it up a lot and made it really unique- had to be original! I really didn't think that I'd get many views or comments but hours after uploading them, I'd get thousands of views and people saying how much they loved my music. The more time that went past, the more views we got and when we started reaching millons, I were ecstatic! I was contacted by the manager of Indie-Beats and from then it just got better and better.

Wow! And then almost like over night, you became famous. What are you currently doing now then?

Pretty much! I'm currently working on some new lyrics, I don't want to just be a singer and play a guitar- I want to write my own music, give people the ideas and make my music just like myself.


How do you think the people that watched you on YouTube will see this?

I recently made a video telling people what had happen, I got an extreme amount of likes, views and comments, all supporting and saying how great it is. I love it, all my original fans are behind me and it's them that really helped me get to where I am now.

Photos for double page spread

To link my cover page and double spread together, I will use images of the same person. The image of the person in the contents page, will be the person that will be wrote about or 'interviewed'. Below, are the best photos I took for this shoot. I will keep all the photos from the shoot however, as when making the double page spread, it might work better different ways to how I designed- therefore some of the other photos might work well as well/be better.

I will cut all of these images out on Photoshop so that the background in these photos wont be visible.

Ideas for double page spread

I liked this double page spread the most as I think that the row of black and white images and the larger, colour photo makes it interesting and exciting. I want to use this idea and do it myself. I will use the girl I did in the contents page.