Double Page Spread Analysis

From doing research on double page spreads in music magazines, I have gathered the following common features and conventions that appear. I will be including these in my own media product.

• There is usually a large headline that contains a pull quote or information from the featured article.
• The featured artist that appears in the article usually appears in an image that fills at least one half of the page. The figure them self usually only appears on this one half even if the whole image covers the double page; this is to avoid folds over the focus in the image.
• It is common to have an interview of some sort on a double page spread and will usually make the questions into subheadings that are bigger and bolder than the text body.
• There is often a pull quote place on the page - possibly in the middle of text.
• The text on the page is sectioned into columns.
• In terms of graphology, the layout compliments the main image and the font and text colours all tie in to the house style of the magazine.
• The very first letter of the text body is enlarged to mark the very start of the text.