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My final double page spread (:

Click to enlarge, I used a black banner to surround the title, and I used a casual font.

The only thing I dislike about this design, is that half of the right page is completley white. So if I’m going to have half of the right side reflected, I think I’d have to have the right side of the right side reflected too.

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I used a few different fonts and eventually found the one I wanted to use, so I stopped experimenting and settled with the one I chose.

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I chose to keep some of my questions personal and relevant at the same time. I wanted to keep the idea of a serious classical magazine, but at the same time have a bit of a twist to it, and make some answers funny.

This is my first idea for a double page spread. I chose to have the reflection on the right because it can fade into the writing. I played around in photoshop to get this result, but I’m still not 100% happy with it. I think I could do a bit more to make it look better. I may introduce her face into the reflection a little more. I got the reflection idea from my iPod-

If you click on the iPod image, the image on the screen is reflected slightly at the bottom. I’d like to use that idea for my magazine to make it look even more classy. I’d like to make my spread a little more busy than it actually looks, but then again I’d have all my writing at images on the other side. I did edit the brightness and contrast of the left image, and I lowered the opacity in the reflection image. I transformed it horizontally and I used the rubber tool to get rid of the rest of the image, but rather than a straight line, I had the fading rubber to give it the effect it has.

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I did a photoshoot of my sister with the same background for my double page spread. I did change her hair and makeup, but I didn’t want to use a photo from the same shoot as before. I am most likely to use the first photo because I think it looks classy which is the main idea of the magazine.

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I thought I’d have to change my design a lot because the idea of kerrang or pop music magazine was becoming far too common. I chose to do classical because it’s out of the ordinary and different. I chose this photo because the colours contrast and the purple is a very seductive colour. I think this picture kind of looks like a shot in the middle of an interview, which is why I chose it. I prefer having the text on either side of the page, rather than scattered around each one. I placed the barcode beneath the text to link it all together, and to make it seem full, I placed the advertisment beside the barcode. I only added a couple of exclamation marks because classical music isn’t exciting, busy or loud. I didn’t want to make it seem calm and relaxed.