Here is what i used to give me my own rough idea of what i wanted to create. Although this is not a chart/modern music example of a double page spread I was not using all the features that are on this double page spread as the genre of music looks to be more like alternative. So, cutting out all the alternative themes that have been made by the ripped paper style and the photos put on as if Polaroids and made it my own.
Here is my first draft in which I have interviewed the singer from Passion In America and talked to her about her past, present and future. To the right is more text which is actually questions asked by the general public from our online pages such as Facebook and Twitter, this creates an interactive connection to not online our actual magazine readers but also our online interactive audience who visit us online at Facebook and Twitter. This targets my young audience as Facebook and Twitter is a commonly used online chat site that anyone who is anyone has it, so to keep up with the styles and keep our magazine seeming fresh and up to date, I have decided to create this online connection to our magazine. I have also included commonly used features of a double page spread such as Boxes at the bottom indicating more information on the interviewee and advertisements on there latest albums and songs etc. This creates a realistic tone to the band. Also I have included a large quotation that is included in the interview and just made bigger to enhance what she has said and is a little snippet of something that is seen as a key factor, it is something of importance to highlight.
Here is then my final draft. You can see I have kept all the same features but have changed my colour scheme. Keeping with the mixture of blue and pink which connects to my mixed gender audience of men and women I have made my double page spread visible to anyone. Although females would be seen as more interested in the article as the interviewee being a women, naturally women are more interested to know what she has to say about her life and how she has got to where she is today. Doing this and creating drafts gives me the chance to almost have a practice before I start on my real double page spread. I think it is important to practice and research and learn about the features that will need to be included in a double page spread to make it look realistic and believable. As well as building up your confidence and creating in your head the image in which you would like to pursue your magazine to be like.
From doing this I have learn what I need to include and the importance of what I need to include, for example the quotations, having quotations gives the double page that realistic look, all the music magazines of today that have a double page spread have these as a feature and so I need to include the feature in my own magazine. I have also learnt from doing a draft and then re-doing the draft to create a final draft I am happy with makes me feel confident about the type of effect I would like the reader to feel when reading my magazine. I have made the language quite casual as I want my readers to just have something easy to read, not something that takes great thought and care into reading it, again this connects to my young target audience as I used casual language like 'wow!' and 'random'. I have made a point at the type of language I want to use by not going too far with it. For example, in my magazine I used '(laughs)' to indicated the interviewee has just laughed, I could of used 'LOL' which is a young slag term, but by not going that far I am creating a boundary of where I would like my audience age to be, therefore creating the age I wanted to target 16-20 years old.
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