Double Page Spread

This was my final design for my double page spread, eventually i decided on this layout after hours of evaluating different styles. I stuck with the regular/original design and kept a large main image on the left hand side, focusing on the fashion and style of the model to represent my genre of grime. I decided to keep the background of a brick wall because it suited my style of format and went went as apposed to a blank boring white background. Above the image is the title of my magazine which I chose was sound, and I chose to add a small additional piece of editing to the word as i changed to the colour to fit the rest of the page and gave a glow/outline to the word. When making the title it seemed to blend in with the bricks type background and so I thought of an idea to give it a misty effect which reduces how it blends with the bricks and now makes the title stand out.
My left hand page consists of many key media forms and conventions. Firstly a heading 'life was rough' is a small quote that gives the understanding of the story which is told in the article below, along with a quick small interview that talks about a grime artists. A small picture is used which consists of the same model as the right hand page, however this type giving a first person view as apposed to a side view, showing off looks and also a direct gaze engaging the audience.

Designing Double Page Spread

 Originally I decided to start with a title that was appealing from the beginning, I decided to use the same font as I used on my Front cover simply because I thought it suited the genre.

This section was a little interview about Patrick O'Meara or ''MC Paddy'' the questions were all relevant about the genre of grime and his past, as-well as his lifestyle as an upcoming grime artist.

Secondly I added additional text and wrote it as three mini articles which were created/made up.

Furthermore i proceeded to add a smaller made up name for who my double page spread was based on and created a second masthead for the second page using the made up name ''MC Paddy''.

Additionally I added a photo of Patrick facing his name on the opposite page, to create the image of him staring at his name, connoting that he likes it, also the background was used to show the image of how grime artists of audiences look.

Lastly I added a small image of 'MC Paddy' to fill some space  as my double page spread had lots of space that made it look slightly unorganised.

Grime Magazine Front Cover

Creating Front Cover

Firstly I created a Bold standout masthead 'Sound' was my chosen masthead in white with a black outline to make it visible during the creation of my front cover I used black outlines with white text a lot due to the colours being easy to read with the addition of the background/setting that the photograph was taken. I chose this setting for my front cover because the lighting was quite easy to work with. The model was centred so this gave me lots of room to work with when producing adverts and taglines.

Secondly I added some text involving some of the biggest grime artists in the hope that this would draw attention, I decided to use a grey bold text with a black outline of the text to force the names 'Stormzy, Skepta and Jme' to stand out more so than the texted used prior to their names. I thought this was a good idea because, this is a key aspect aiming to grime as a genre's targeted audience.

After this I added a small section using the space in the bottom left hand corner of the image, I decided to create a phrase in white text with black highlights, describe a piece of advertisement, about a popular grime artists in recent time period known as 'Little T' my outcome of this was to be an eye catcher for any of the target audience.

I decided to add a bar-code and price marker, to give my magazine cover a professional approach. This following the key media forms and conventions, and this piece of editing was only small so I decided to add this earlier rather than later, as it gave me a view/idea of the room that I had left to work with.

My advertisement had to be relevant to Grime, So i decided to do Adidas yeezy's because a majority of grime artist's and their fans were yeezy's or are a huge fan of them try to follow their trends, due to yeezy's being extremely expensive therefore I believe these are teh perfect giveaway.

 I followed this with a brief phrase, of what is to come inside on Page 7.

Lastly I created a header which includes names of high end grime artists/rappers in the community because they're relevant, I had to add something here otherwise there would have been so much open space that would have looked unprofessional, in the top right corner i decided to create my own personal magazine logo, which i will include on both my magazine contents page and double page spread.

Draft Of Double Page Spread

My double page spread will be a simple and easy double page spread, It will revolve around on large main image, which is positioned on the left hand side of the first page, the left hand page has a large title with the persons in the images name, for example 'Joel's' grime name 'Mc Rouet' with an article about him, possibly even an interview, the top right corner consists of a logo called 'Grime time tv' which is used on each page of my magazine and the word news because these two pages would be seen as a news page.

Front Cover Draft

I like the style of this front cover draft, as it displays numerous key media forms and conventions, however i feel like there is too much going on, weather is be too much text or imagery around the cover. I will most likely stick to this style of front cover due to there being a fully planned perspective as well as following a format where I will be using media key conventions and concepts the magazine.