The document analyzes and compares the layout, design elements, and style of two music magazine double page spreads - one created by the author and one from Kerrang magazine. Both spreads effectively engage readers with their headlines and use of images of the featured bands. However, the Kerrang spread uses more vibrant colors and additional photos to fill the page, while the author's spread includes more text. Both layouts are easy to follow with proportional spacing and formatting, but the author's includes larger text for easier reading compared to the dense content in Kerrang. The house styles are similar in terms of fonts and informal language, but differ in the author's simpler design using less color and images.

1. Headline
Both of the double page spreads that I am analysing use a headline “The
Flying Oysters Hit Back With Tour and Album” and “Fall Out Boy Make
Their Sensational Return” straight away informs the reader what the
articles are about in order to engage the reader into reading the article.
For my headline I have one with a simple black filled text box with the
headline title written in white to produce a contrast between the two
colours. In the Kerrang magazine, they have used more vibrant colours
for the headline, yellow and red. This make the headline much more
striking to the reader and it is likely to attack their attention quicker than
my headline.
Font and Type Size
The text in the both of these double page spreads are easy to read which
will visually please the reader as the will be able to read it without any
difficulty. Two colours have been used in both of the pages which, helps
to separate the question from the answer. For the questions I thought that
I would be appropriate to use the colour red as it is a very bold colour and
works well with the rest of the page. The main colour for the text is black
as it is an easy colour as it contrasts with the white background, plus
when I was deciding which colours to use I needed to think that some
people could suffer from colour blindness, which means that they would
be unable to see certain colours together. I made the questions larger and
bold then the main text itself in order to separate the questions from the
rest of the text.
Main Image
Both of the magazines use images on their double page spread, to
give the reader a visual incite as to what the band look like and
what each band members role is within the band. In the Kerrang
magazine they have include more pictures on the page to fill it up
as there is not a lot of text that is displayed on the page, whereas
on my double page spread I have included a lot more writing so I
could not include as many pictures on my page. My main image
that I have used is a phot of the lead singer of the Flying Oysters
Mark Macdonald and on the right hand side of the page I have
included a picture of the bands guitarists Chris Knowlson. The
images that the Kerrang magazine have used show Fall Out Boy’s
bassists Pete Wentz playing his bass while surrounded what seems
to look like audiences hands, there are other pictures of the rest of
the band playing at the concert as well as a photo that shows the
whole band together. It is also vital that the images that are used in
a double page spread must be relevant to the story of the article.
Layout
Both of these double page spreads have used a very pleasing
layout that will please the reader as it will be easy to follow. When
it can to the writing on my page I made sure that there was not a
lot of white space between each column of writing and I have
made sure that everything does not look cramped on the page
and everything is in proportion to each other. There is a lot of
writing on my page compared to the Kerrang magazine which
may put the reader off, but my text is quite big in order the reader
will be able to read the text easily without having to squint just to
read the article. I have also left a decent amount of space
between each column of writing so that the reader does not get
confused when reading the text.House Style
Mine and the Kerrang magazine’s house style are very similar to each other in terms of text and font style, however their layout is completely
different as the Kerrang magazine uses more colour and uses a lot more pictures then I have included in my double page spread, despite of
this their style remains the same throughout both of the pages. The register of writing that has been used in both mine and the Kerrang
magazine informal as it is a conversation going on between to people as the language that is used is very easy to understand as they both
use very simple but effective language.