The document summarizes the steps taken to produce a double page spread (DPS) for a music magazine in QuarkXPress. The key steps included: 1) Adding the title and stand first using text boxes and formatting fonts and colors. 2) Importing an interview from a Word document and formatting it across three columns. 3) Adding the page number, date, and magazine title in the bottom right. 4) Including a drop quote text box over the main image to anchor the text.

1. Production of music magazine DPS
(Double page spread)
Abbie Newell

2. To start, I added the title “THE WORLD WILL BE OURS!” This was added by using a simple
text box and changing the font so that it dominates the page. The colour was changed by
using the colour tool at the right side of the Quark page. I also added the stand first in the
same way.
This is tool bar to
change the colour of
text.

3. Then, I added the interview to the page by typing the interview up onto
a word document. Then I saved it as a word 97, then on Quark went “
Import text, word document” then I typed in the bottom that I wanted 3
columns. I then changed the colour of the text by using the colour
changing tool on the right side of the Quark page. I also had to link the
three columns together so that the text would flow from box to box.
This was done by using the linking tool and clicking on the boxes that
you wanted to link.
This is colour
changing tool.
This is the button
that I used to link the
two text boxes
together so that the
text would flow from
one box into the
next.

4. To finalise with the text, I added the page number, the date and the title of the
magazine again. This was done by using a simple text box again, and adding it to the
bottom right of the page to look like a real music magazine, and to anchor the title
with the magazine. The colour of the page number was changed from black to red,
by using the colour changing bar on the right side of the quark page. Also I added
the drop quote that will go over the top of my image. This was done also by using a
text box.

5. To finish, I added my main image to anchor the text to the article. On the
image the model is giving direct address to attract the target audience.
Also, the models clothing matches the colour scheme to compliment it.
This image was added by clicking “ The picture tool (Rectangle with a
cross inside) and the clicking “ Import picture” and then found the image
in my documents.

6. Final image of my double page spread