The document describes the process of creating a double page spread (DPS) for a magazine. It discusses starting with a slanted box layout in InDesign, then adding a main band picture and text blocks. Feedback suggested making the text more detailed. The content was then moved to Photoshop where a new black and white picture was chosen in line with the black, white, and red color scheme. Various design elements like titles, mastheads, and advertisements were added to complete the DPS layout.

1. Progress on DPS

2. • This is how I started
my draft of my
double page spread.
• I used the four page
system on adobe
InDesign to get the
double page layout
and then started with
my slanted box that I
had in my layout.

3. • I then inserted my main band picture which I
cut out on Photoshop.
• I chose on where you could see instruments
because again, I had planned to do this in my
drawn layouts.

4. • Here I am adding in an idea of where things
will go so that I can block out where
everything will go.

22. • I added to the text as it looked a little bit bare
and in my feedback, I was told that the text I
had was good but perhaps not detailed
enough for the main story of the magazine.

23. Moving
• I had worked on Adobe InDesign for my DPS
which I found hard to navigate in a lot of ways
but useful in others e.g. for writing in
columns.
• I moved all of my features to a Photoshop file
and re-did my double page spread.

26. • I copied the article, red section and
title from my other document but
decided to change the picture
because the quality wasn’t as good
with the one I originally used.
• I also looked back to my audience
research and this said that black
white and red would be a good
colour scheme. By putting a
colourful picture on the page I felt I
was straying from this so I tried a
picture that was black and white.
• I had to enlarge the
text boxes to make
them fit to a good
size.
• I also stretched the
image to make it
spread over both
pages because it
looked too
insignificant at a
smaller size when I
kept it on one side of
the spread.

27. • I then decided to put
in a title of the article
because I had seen this
in most other
magazines. It gives the
reader an idea about
what will be included
in the article.
• I put ‘Nimbus’ and
‘2000’ in red font
because it’s the name
of the band and their
album attracting the
attention of fans.

28. • To keep with the brand of the magazine, I put
the masthead in the corner of the page.
• I then decided to make the Exclusive interview
stand out by putting a black background on it.
• I tilted it to fit with my slanted lines theme
and gave it a cracked effect because I had seen
this sort of thing in NME magazine.

29. • I did the same cracked effect with the Fact file
title and outlined the red section in black to
match my contents page.
• I inserted the text from my previous InDesign
document and then created an album cover
from one of the photo shoot photos. Again
black white and red to fit the colour scheme
as this was in my original layout.

30. • I then, in blue because I hadn’t used much
blue on this page wrote an advertisement for
buying the album on iTunes as this often
happens in music magazines.
• I added the price in white to fit the colour
scheme because a real magazine would give
prices of albums.

31. Final Draft