Double Page Spread Draft

This is my first attempt at a double page spread for my own music magazine. I decided on an interview with an artist that fits the genre of my magazine because when I researched into what music magazines put inside, I discovered that most such as Kerrang! use their double page spreads for interviews with a popular artist of that time.

The artist I chose was Jake Bugg because I knew that he has been a main focus this year with his 'Indie' style of music and this is one of the genres that I have based my magazine on. By using him on the front as well as having a double page spread of him, this will not only attract the original target audience that I wanted but also fans of Jake Bugg's music that wouldn't usually buy this magazine.

To get more information on the artist and to decide what the best thing to write about him was, I watched a collection of YouTube videos of interviews he had done previously and chose to talk about how he first started playing the guitar and what the true meanings were behind some of his most famous records. I felt that this was the most interesting subject at that time because it was different to the usual generic questions an artist tends to be asked such as "Where do you see yourself in ten years from now?"

The colour theme is similar to the front cover draft I produced to keep the house style throughout the magazine and the black text over the stage setting in the background creates the Indie/Rock styled look that needs to be clear so that the readers know that the genre will never change and the magazine will always be unique to their favourite genre. The added purple text makes the page more noticeable and when researching I found that this was often used in various other magazines to display an important point made by the interviewee. Moreover, I used same Sans-Serif font on the double page spread as I did on the front cover to stick to the house style I desired and used the Italic version of the same font when the text was the artist own quotes. This makes the reader more aware of facts that the magazine has included and the actual stories that the artist is providing.