Double Page Spread

Using my research conducted in earlier posts I have created a basic layout for my double page spread.

The article quote featured with the main image will be "I'm unique. I want to put a spin on reality and make it my own."
This will co-incide with the image of her legs, guitar, amp and microphone.



Images

Original Image

Manipulated Image

Using Photoshop, I changed the images colour and adjusted the contrast and brightness so the artist stood out from the other objects and props in the image. I then adjusted the focus and used the blur tool so the background and props were slightly out of focus and kept the artist the focus of the photo. The reason I chose the photo to be in greyscale was because in my research I found that many photos of artists of my chosen music genre are also in black and white which creates a mysterious and rebel like image. This can be seen as a connotation. A denotation is the angle of which my chosen image is. It is taken at a high angle to show that the artist is not dominant which is featured in other photos in my research. The photo is taken at a low angle to represent dominance.

Draft #1




I am happy with this layout as the artist is the main feature. The article fits in the layout I wanted aswell. However I don't think there is enough colour on the double page spread.
However, the article isn't columned which is a convention of a double page spread so this will need to be changed. I'm also not happy with the outcome of the main headline against the main image.

Draft #2




In this draft I have the main conventions; page number, main image, additional image, article text and headline. The article still needs to be put into columns to follow the conventions of a double page spread. The article is written like a biography of th beginning on the artists career. This was based around the article research I conducted. However, I may change the article to a interview similar to the Keith Richards interview in the Classic Rock magazine research.

Draft #3




In this draft I have re-written the article to suit the style of an insider interview. The way I have written it suggests the reporter is sat in a room with other people and listening and watching the musician. The article is now in columns which is a convention of double page spreads. I have also changed the headline so it looks as though it has been stamped onto the page. A small summary paragraph is also under the headline which is another convention I have seen in my double page spread research but in my double page spread I have it over the main image which isn't usual for the conventions. The main image is also in black and white to coincide with the quote in the article that is emboldened and in blue so it stands out from the rest of the text. This is also another convention that I saw in my research.


Final Draft



In my final draft I have changed the name of my musician. The headline is bigger and at an angle to look as if it has been stamped on the page. The blue text is in a style called "Metallord" which is similar to the styles I found in my research.

Article

"Leanne’s music is a creative and original symphony of Rock ‘n’ Roll influences with a bass line that roars through her new album “Black n White”. Her first album. After being available online for a month it managed to break through the download charts and score a top spot. Incredibly successful for a newbie artist who creates their tracks in a small attic bedroom close to the Yorkshire Dales.
“I’ve never not listened to music” she says as she tunes in her guitar across from me. “It’s always been around me from an early age. On the radio or when my Dad strummed on his guitar.”
Her new album is lying on the table between us, along with numerous magazines with her face plastered over them. Our photographer shows her the photos from the shoot earlier that day and she laughs.
“God this is so weird. I feel like an overnight sensation. Next week I’ll be old news” she laughs again.
I assure her she’ll be playing with Metallica on their comeback tour 20 years from now.
“It’s weird. People have a stereotype that rockers are old, sweaty guys with eyeliner but I’m a girl and some Rock fans hate that I’m too young as well. But I’ve been a Rock fan for most of my life.”
Leanne has finished tuning her guitar and starts playing a heavy solo.

The reporters and photographers stand in awe as this petite girl strums her guitar like a demon of Rock.
Once she has finished she puts her custom guitar down and sits down with her legs over the arm of the chair.
“I want to put a new but original spin on peoples ideas of Rock.”
Instead of finding a record label to prop her music on, Leigh-Anna went straight to producing her music herself and using Myspace and Youtube to show off her tracks.
“I didn’t want to go to a record label because I don’t like them. They seem to push out ready-made artists onto the fans and force the music on them until they buy it. I rather fans like my music because they like the sounds coming out of their speakers. I’m a ‘rough-around-the-edges kinda girl.”"