Media studies AS

1. Double page spread production

2. Firstly I set up my Quark document to
have facing pages and three columns on
each page. This is so that it would be set
out like a real double page spread article.
To start the production of it, I added the
images to the pages. I knew how I was
going to set them out through my plan so
I made the main image large across the
left hand side and three smaller images
on the right all next to each other.
I then added my headlines, websites and the page
numbers with the name of the magazine next to
them. To add the headline over the main image I
made the font white so that it was visible and I
used the font Bronx bystreets in size 48pt. For the
other part of the headline on the right hand side
page I used the font Plane crash at size 44pt. I
added the website to the left hand corner of the
page and the right hand corner. On the left I had to
make it white so it was still visible on top of the
image and on the right I kept it black. I did this
aswell with the page numbers and magazine name
next to it. For the website I used the font bronx
bystreets at size 11pt. For the page numbers with
magazine name next to them I used the font bronx
bystreets at size 10pt.

3. I then added four thick lines going across the
right hand page. I made them bright green. I put
them there so the right hand side of the page
would look more filled as I was worried it would
appear empty and boring. I also added them and
made them green because I wanted the double
page spread to continue with the green house
style that is occurring throughout my products.
I then added the interview that I conducted to the
right hand side page. I did this interview and it fit
equally into the three columns. For the questions
that I asked I put these in a slightly more bold font of
bronx bystreets at size 10pt and then the answer to
the question in the font Arial at 9size pt. I did this
because I wanted the question and answer to be
clearly defined on the interview and it also made the
text look better and more interesting. I also added a
pull-quote in the middle of the interview. This is
where you take a quote from what the interviewed
has said and you make it stand out above the other
text. I did this and made the quote in the font Plane
crash at size 12pt in a green colour, to stand out as a
successful pull quote and also continue with the
house style of my products and also the colour the
scheme of the double page spread itself.

4. I then added a stand first which included a drop capital.
The standfirst is there to introduce what the article is
going to be about and it did this for me. I placed it just
above the article and below the second headline. I
used the font Bronx bystreets in size 13pt for this. I did
this because the stand first needs to stand out and be
larger than the interview if it is to follow codes and
conventions. I also added the captions to the images
just underneath them in a small font size of 9pt in Arial.
I included a drop capital to the standfirst. I did this
because it follows codes and conventions and in my
opinion makes the text look better and more
interesting as it adds an other dynamic to it. I added
the drop capital by making a text box close to the
standfirst and writing the first letter of the standfirst
into this text box instead of the standfirst text box
and I made the letter in a bigger font still bronx
bystreets though but the size was 48pt.