The document summarizes the layout and design elements of a magazine article spread about the band My Chemical Romance. The dominant image shows the lead singer Gerard Way performing in a recording studio. The strapline promises exclusive information about the band's new album. The article title uses red and white text to stand out from the body text. Overall, the spread uses dark colors that reflect the band's image, with red used to make the photos pop.

1. Dominant Image Strapline Kicker Colour Palette
The dominant image in the The strapline informs the reader of who the The hook for the article could be either of two things.
article is about by making the writing extra The colours used
spread is of the lead First the words ‘WORLD EXCLUSIVE’ which would
bold to stand out. It offers a promise of in the image are
singer, Gerard Way, excite a reader, regardless if they liked the band or not.
performing in a recording exclusive information about the new album Also, the band name ‘MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE’ mostly dark, using
studio. This supports the which the magazine witnessed the creation may draw attention as their readership mainly like their the imagery of the
topic of the article that of. This draws in the reader to the article music and would be interested in article because of the band being “dark”
they were working on new and encourages them to listening. subject. with the red
material. The lack of standing out the
colour in the images most on the
reflects the bands spread.
stereotypical image and
Overall
helps contrast with the
Composition
text.
In the top right
Captions corner, there is a
The captions for each promotion for the
photo brings together the magazine along
article and tells us what is with the kicker.
happening in each photo, This is the first
with a touch of humour. It thing people see
also brings the magazine when they open the
together. double page spread
and will generate
Pull Quotes initial interest.
The main title of the Below that is the
magazine is a pull quote main image which
from the interview they takes up the rest of
did with Kerrang!. It is the page, except the
bold and much larger than space with a smaller
the rest of the text to image in the bottom
make it more eye right.
catching. It reveals a little
about the article to the
reader.
Article Title
The article title is a pull quote from the main article and is visually appealing. The title is red and white; the red being the lesser important
parts of the quote and the white being most important. The size is much larger than the rest of the article text which makes it more eye
catching. The font style is bold which makes it stand out more against the background and contrasts with the lower case writing used for the
rest of the article.

2. Dominant Image Overall Composition Colour Palette
The dominant image in On the first page the entire page is an image of the subject with a small part left blank at the The colours used
the spread is of the bottom for the magazine logo and page numbers with a web address. In the top left corner of the article are plain
subject of the article, the other page there is a large letter ‘S’ and a paragraph taking up the rest of the left side of black and white
Lana Del Rey. The the page. On the right there is two more paragraphs, the bottom using a larger letter ‘A’ as a with parts of it
image used takes up a separator for the two paragraphs. being red and blue,
full page and draws the similar to the
attention of the reader. photo’s colour
The image uses blue and palette.
red contrasting colours
to make it eye catching Kicker
and visually appealing. The first thing
people would
Captions notice about the
The image doesn’t have article is the giant
a caption, but it doesn’t letter which is eye
need one as it is obvious catching. It also
who they are has the name of
interviewing as they state the subject in the
it on the next page. top right corner, in
larger writing.
Pull Quotes
There are no pull quotes Font Choice
used in the magazine but The font is the
they use some quotes in a same throughout
larger paragraph as an and is easy to
introduction to the article. read. They use
various different
text styles (Italics
Article Title and Bold) to
The article does not have emphasise certain
a title but uses an quotes or points
introductory paragraph to made in the
give an overview of the article.
article and larger letters to
introduce the start of the
article.

3. Dominant Image Kicker
The dominant image is a The kicker would
photograph of the be the photo
subject taking up the taking up an entire
entire of the left page, page or the giant
leaving only the right ‘L’ which presents
page for the article. the only colour in
the article.
Captions
The article /image has no Font Choice
caption but it is made The font mainly
clear who the article is stays the same
about in the top right throughout the
corner where they article, however
include her name in a the size changes
large font. sometimes to
emphasize the
Pull Quotes
change of topic.
There are no pull quotes.
Overall
Article Title Composition
The entire left page
There is no article title
is taken up by the
but they do use an intro only image, which
blurb to introduce the would catch the
article. readers attention.
The subject name is
Colour Palette in the top right
Most of the colours used corner and the
are black and white, article spread over 3
with the image been columns with 2
edited to match the larger letters to
colours used. The only show a change in
other colour used is red the theme of the
article. Overlaying
which is the main colour
the entire article is a
of the magazine.
red ‘L’ which stands
out against the rest
of the article.