The document analyzes the layout and design elements of a professional double-page magazine spread. It describes the main image featuring the artist or band, the informal language used to engage readers, and a three-column layout with images and text. Key visual elements include a drop capital that spans seven lines, page numbers in the bottom right corner, an arrow instead of a period to link pages, and a color scheme of black, white, and red. The byline credits the author and subsidiary images with captions promote the artist.

1. Analysis of a professional double
page spread

2. Main image of artist/band
• The image is on one single page with the writing on the other
page. Usually the image will use direct address, which this
magazine does, it is of two of the artists from the band that
the article is wrote about.

3. Language of the text
• The language of the double page spread is informal, as it is
establishing a relationship with the reader, for example it
describes at the start of the text ‘Alice Cooper picks up a glass
of beer’, this wouldn’t be mentioned in a formal article, as it is
an informal situation.

4. Layout
• Usually there are 2 or 4 columns, however this magazine has
three columns, the middle column has subsidiary images and
the two beside it has the article. This gives the magazine a
simple and clear structure, also making it neat.

5. Drop capital
• The drop capital/cap, stems down 7 lines, and gives the
magazine style and creates a brand.

6. Page numbers
• Page numbers usually have the magazines logo or masthead
next to it, but this magazine does not. The page numbers
usually sit on the bottom left hand or right hand corners, in
this magazine they sit on the bottom right hand corners.

7. Full stop
• Instead a full stop at the end of an article, it may have the
logo, or a small block, or a letter, related to the magazine, but
this magazine has an arrow, directing the reader to the next
page.

8. Colour scheme
• The colour scheme is specific to the magazine, this magazine
has the colours black, white and red, which is quite simple
and consists of 3 colours.

9. By line
• There is a by line, which tells the audience who the columnist
is, who is Kevin Murphy.

10. Artist promotion
• At the end of the article it will usually have an album release
date or a tour date for example, this magazine.

11. Subsidiary images
• These are smaller images in the article and tend to be pictures
of what the artist has done and is talking about in the article,
these are seen as a representation of the artist, where in this
magazine we see them with different celebrities showing they
are popular and well-known, we also see them performing,
which promotes the band.

12. Captions
• These are used underneath the subsidiary images to give the
reader more information of what the images are, where in
this magazines captions we learn who is in the image and
what is going on.