Q Florence Double Page Research

This is my first double page spread research. This is a double page from the March issue of Q magazine, on Florence and the machine.

There are many different types of codes and conventions; the first one that I am going to talk about is font that has been used for this article. There are two types of font that have been used here there is the bold capital larger font that has been used here for the title early on and the drop capital of the t at the beginning of one of the words. The type of font that that has been used here is serif font for the title and the drop capital. The serif font has also been used for the name of the artist that the article is on in the black bar at the top of the page that has the white word Florence in it.

Something else that is important about a double page spread is the information about the magazine that is at the bottom of ever page. This is things like the logo for the magazine which is in the bottom left hand corner of the left page. There is then the page number which is also important as these are the numbers that are linked to in the contents for what things are on what pages. Next is the issue of the magazine, so this one says that it is the 2012 March issue of the magazine. These are all the little things that you do not really think about when you are reading magazines. I will be including these all in my double page spread of my magazine. So I will have my magazines logo, the page number and the issue.

There are three columns of text on the left hand page for this article. This is something that I will be doing with my article, as I have to have three columns of text for my article on my double page spread.

The text is on left hand side on this double page and the picture is on the right hand page. This has been done so that the picture does not do onto the other page and the same with the text so that there is an even amount of text to the amount of picture. This picture is a close-up of the artist, Florence’s face. I may do this with my music magazine but I may do it so that the picture comes across over the fold of the double page so that there is more of the picture. But I am not sure what I am going to do yet.  

 There is not a real colour scheme to this double page spread as the page with the font on is just black and white for the font and the background colour. There is the white background with the black text on the page and then there is the bar of black on the top of the page with the white font in it. There is then the picture which has no real colour scheme to it either, as the colours that are used in the picture do not link to the colours that have been used for the text. I will be having a colour scheme for my music magazine as I feel that it helps to make the magazine look better as there is a constant theme running through the whole of the magazine. So I will having a colour scheme for my magazine unlike the one that this magazine has as it is only really black and white and this are normally colours for text and background.