This document provides step-by-step instructions for creating a double page spread in InDesign. It describes adding images and text elements like page numbers, names, quotes and an article with questions and responses. Key steps include adding a light tint to images, outlining elements with shadows, and varying text size and bolding to draw attention to important quotes. Positioning of elements follows conventions like page numbers on the bottom and credits on the top. Text is laid out in two columns with consistent formatting and fonts throughout the spread.

1. Step by Step Construction
Double Page Spread

2. • I started by opening a new file on A3 with a transparent background.
• I then decided to carry on with my colour scheme of my front page and my contents page by having a black
background.
• I then added the image that I took of my garden before my model stood there for the photograph.

3. • In the first screen shot, I added a new layer and inserted a white rectangle over the whole picture and gave it an
opacity of 10%, I did this so that it would be easier to add text to it and it also gave the picture a lighter tint to it
that I liked.
• I then added the image of my model and placed him in the bottom left corner of the page, which is where he
was stood in the picture that I cut him out of.
• In the final screenshot, I added a black shadow around him. I did this by using the paint brush and with a brush
span of 30. I did this to make him stand out off the picture more than he already is.

4. • In the first shot, I added that page number of the double page spread to the bottom left hand corner, this is
important because it is part of the codes and conventions of a double page spread.
• I then decided to add the artists name to the top left corner of the page, I positioned it here because I thought it
would sit well above the model.
• I then used the paint brush to add a shadow behind the models name, I did this by reducing the opacity to 50%
so that the image behind was still visible.

5. • In this shot, I added a quote from the artist. I placed it next to him so that it is easy to recognise that it is a quote
form him and no one else. I then added a little description that gives a bit of background information about the
artist to the left of his name, this will run over both of the pages.
• After adding the text, I decided to apply the same shadow effect that I gave to the artists name. I used the same
method, so I used the black paint brush and outlined it as well as filling in behind the writing. This allows the
text to stand out off the page, but still allowing the background image to be seen.

6. • Firstly, I simply outlined the space that I was going to allow for my article, interview, to take up. I placed upon
this shape a opacity of 50%. I chose this after looking at other levels of opacity, but I believed that this one was a
good balance between being able to see the text and being able to see the image behind.
• I then created a section of text on InDesign that introduced the reader to both the article and the artist. For this
I used the font Felix Titling in a black colour.

7. • Here, I screenshotted when I had just finished added the text to my first column of writing. I used the Felix
Titling font throughout.
• I then, for the interviewers question changed the text colour to white, and made the font size bigger to 14,
instead of 12, which was the artists response.
• In the second screenshot, it shows when I began to start the second column of writing, I used the same font and
the same style in this one as well.

8. • In the first screenshot, it shows how I had positioned some of the response to one of my questions, as you can
see I left a space, this was because I was going to put a big quote from the interview there.
• The second screenshot shows after I had put the larger text in. I decided to have this part of the text in
particular larger because it is a funny and shocking part of the interview where the artist reveals something that
his fans would not have knows. It also makes it more eye catching to people if they are just flicking past the
article. For the larger text I increased the font size to 20, and changed the font to display the text in bold.

9. • These last two screenshots show how I finished off positioning the text on to my double page spread. I kept all
aspect the same, such as font, font size and colours that I had mentioned before hand.
• The image on the right is my final double page spread.