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Dear Moderator,

I have completed all the tasks in this process myself including my preliminary task (a school magazine) as well as my music magazine for which I have made a front cover, contents page and double page spread. I have completed all these using Photoshop and I completed my evaluation using Prezi. In my blog I have included the different things which I used to help me throughout this process and I hope you enjoy looking through it all.

From Remi Martinelli
Candidate Number: 9122

Evaluation

double page spread explanation

In one of my previous blogs, I looked at We Love Pop magazine's double page spread for ideas on how to go about mine. I said that I wanted to use a couple of ideas from the analysis that I did of that magazine.
Firstly, I used the idea of the questions being put in a different colour to the answers so that the reader could differentiate between the two. For my interview, I put the questions in pink and the answers in black so that they were different. Secondly, I also used the quote idea but I made it a lot smaller than the one of the We Love Pop magazine. I used two quotes, rather than one big one because I wanted it to be slightly different to the magazine I looked at.
I did use one large image on the right hand side but I also had text around it because I felt like one page would just be wasted otherwise.
Although I said I liked the idea that the singers name wasn't in bold, large font, on the We Love Pop magazine, I wanted my bands name to be seen because I think the audience would rather see that this is whose interview they will be reading.

Double page spread final

I made a few changes to the double page spread. Firstly, I re cropped the left top photo and the photo on the right hand side to make the edges smoother. I also moved the final interview question over to the right a bit more and added another quote from the interview in a large bold font. The first quote I had wasn't bold enough to stand out so I used 'perpetua titling mt' font as it was already in capitals and easy to read. At the bottom on the right hand side, there was a white area where I had previously cropped the brick wall background (not very neatly), so I got the original image of the brick wall and cropped a long piece to fit in at the bottom to cover the white. Over the top of this, I added the wesbite link for 'behind the scenes extras' so that the reader knows they can find out more information on the interview. It is also promoting the wesbite.

cropping photo 2

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Double page spread practises

This was the first attempt at the double page spread, but not completed. While doing it I found that I couldn't place all the images where I wanted along with the amount of text I had so before I finished, I decided to make some changes:

Firstly, I added page numbers into the corners of the pages. Also, I removed the bottom right image because I felt it didn't really have a place within the double page spread, so I enlarged the top right image to make it stand out more, and more obvious that they were the focus of this article, rather than have 4 small images. I also changed the font of the interview because it is easier to read.

I am going to re crop the photos from the left hand side to make them more sharp because once the page is printed, those mistakes may look obvious.