ANCILLARY DOUBLE

PAGE SPREAD

Marcus Thomas

• The software I’ll be using to design my double page spread for my silent comedy is Adobe InDesign CS6 and I will be manipulating the images on Adobe Photoshop CS6 and then will transfer them onto in InDesign.

• I feel that I am an intermediate user of both software since I used them last year during AS level to design my front cover page, contents page and double page spread.

The first thing I had to do was make two pages since I’m going to be designing a double page spread not a single spread. I done this by using the “pages” tab and clicking the icon which showed two pages.

Then I created a black background for the double page spread because I wanted the colour of the text to be white keeping the 1920s effect of black and white.

The first thing I done was to put the heading, the subheading and the page numbers in. The font I used for the heading was “Century Schoolbook” which I thought was legible at the same time quite eccentric and if you saw this font on an actual 1920s double page spread, the reader wouldn’t be to surprised. Traditionally, the winter season in Britain is depicted as being white so I played this on by making the heading “It’s going to be a black and white winter!!!” since the silent comedy relates to Black British/Afro-Caribbean culture.

The subheading is typed in the font “Synchro LET” which I used to break the conventions slightly. I thought that that the audience might get bored if they kept reading text which has no style so I broke the conventions slightly. The aim of the subheading was to keep the reader interested so I mentioned that the silent comedy has a Black British twist which will appeal mainly to the Black British audience as they will feel that this article is something they could understand. The page numbers were added just to make the readers know what page the article is on making it easy for them to navigate from the contents page to the page of the article. I also added the name of the editor right next to the subheading because I knew that the subheading will be read and so will the editor’ name once its placed near to the subheading.

This screenshot is based on how I am going to layout the text and the images on the double page spread.

These two boxes are where the two images are going to be located and in between those two boxes there will be text.

These two boxes are where the articles are going to be in two different columns which is what articles are normally divided into.

I added the article to the design which consisted of the review. The review was written in the font “Times New Roman” because it is quite common in double page spreads and it is legible.

The pull-out is included and I typed it in the font “Synchro LET” which is typed in a large size and is quoted from a comment a fan ahs made.

The dropcap is employed just to make the reader know where they should start reading from.

I then added the images in of the main characters and made the image large so the audience could see their favourite actors displayed and would want to know more about the film they are participating in.

I also added the photo credit to the images to make sure that the people who took the photos are mentioned and credited.