Double Page Spread Comparison

I designed my double page spread on Pixlr express as I found it the easiest software to access and edit my work on.
My first draft was designed on Publisher and I found it time consuming to transfer onto my blog as I had to print screen it onto the Paint Software and then crop the image to then save it to then put it onto my blog.
I kept the double page spread as an interview because when I showed my target audience my first draft, they said they would want an artist interview in the magazine if they were to buy it. Also, with my genre being Indie/Rock, it suits the magazine well as it gives readers an insight on their favourite artists lives. When I researched into what other music magazines had used their double page spreads for, I noticed that most had placed an interview with an artist that fits their genre of music there. This is because usually the whole interview can fit onto one whole section without filling out onto the next side and this then makes it look professional as well as organised.
The talent I chose for this was Sophia as I feel that she clearly represents an Indie/Rock genre. By using Sophia on the front cover as well as the double page spread like I did with 'Jake Bugg' on my first draft, it attracts both usual buyers of the magazine and also those who have purchased it because of the artist on the front cover.

I also continued with similar genre colour themed as these colours went well with the dark coloured text I had used on top of it. Another part that I kept the same was having the artists as the background image as I thought this took up less room and more text was able to fit onto the page making the interview appear longer. This helped to keep a similar house style throughout the magazine by having an artist image as the full background for the magazine instead of a clear background. The effects I used on my second double page spread to make the background image fade was from 'Vignette' and I then chose the 'Bronze', which made the corners dark and the image to become blurred. After this I went onto the colour correction and enhanced it to a red and this gave it the light tint that the background portrays.
Before, I had used a black text colour, this time I chose white text for the title of the page, which I got from the text style 'Retro' and I used 'Airstream' and I also used white and a red/brown colour for the interviewers speech that was from the style 'Retro' and I used 'Diner' and a navy blue also from 'Retro' and this time I used 'Limelight' as I felt these would be the most noticeable on top of my background as some of the text had to be placed over the artists midshot photo and Sophia was wearing a black top. Moreover, I had to be careful what colour I chose because her top also had a variation of other bright colours that would make the text unreadable. Furthermore, in my first draft, I deconstructed the text to just the artists answers so that it was a different approach than other magazines although, I didn't think this was very effective and so I presented an interview instead and when I asked my target audience they said they preferred my second attempt.
Initially, I wanted to use an additional colour with a bigger font to make that particular sentence stand out from the rest like how other music magazines had done however, I didn't think it was necessary in my second attempt because the way I had managed to fade out the artist into the background of the text looked much more original than trying to use the same ideas as other magazines.