double page spread 4

This is a double page spread from a music magazine. I think this double page spread is really eye catching; this is because it has many features and techniques which make things stand out. It would be easy for the reader to see what this double page spread is about. This is because it has picture of Lilly Allen and also her name is in the article if people didn’t know who it was.

The first technique I am going to comment on the double page spread is the image. The shot of the image is a medium close up this will help the reader see who is on the front as it is a big picture and shows her body and face, because the picture is so big it will catch the attention of the reader. Lilly Allen is also wearing clothes that contrast with the background so she stands out more and catches the reader’s attention, this also links in with the colour of Lilly’s name at the top of the article. This is because her name is red and she is wearing red clothing this makes a link between the two. I think that this picture is good because it goes over the middle crease but because it is only her arm and not her face, so it isn't cutting her most important feature in half.

The text which could also be called a masthead is very striking this is because it has a black background under the white writing, this means that it will catch the writers attention. Also this so called masthead is a piece of text out of the article this means that the reader will just have to read the piece of text to see what the article about and whether they want to carry on reading or not. Also the mast head is in big bold letters and some of them are in uppercase. Also at the beginning of the article there is a capital ‘I’ this might catch the readers eye because they will want to see what the article is about because the ‘I’ has caught their attention.

The layout of the article is very much like a newspaper this might give the magazine a little more profession about the article because it is in columns. Also the text makes a frame around the image making it stand out more.