Skills Development for Double Page Spread.

Strengths:• The main image is conventional to

a indie rock music genre. The from the background to the musical iconography with the guitar, it will appeal to the target audience and therefore make the audience more likely to buy the product.

• The headline relates to the target audience and sounds very indie which will appeal to the target audience because they know what the content is like and the wording will make them more likely to read the article.

• My double page spread follows the conventions of double page spread with the headline, stand first, by-line, pull quote, caption and more all being present in the double paged spread.

• The stand first is easy to understand and looks in place following the colour scheme of the 3 media products put together.

• The article itself is in informal English and therefore is easy and understandable for the young target audience.

Weaknesses:• The pull quote may look

presentable but what is in the pull quote isn’t as easy to understand as the rest of the parts of the double paged spread.

• The caption in the bottom left of the page is readable but doesn’t stand out to the audience as much as some of the other parts of the double paged spread.

• The credits in the bottom left are extremely difficult to read and at first glance of the magazine is difficult for the target audience to even see.

What did I find easy to make.• Because I created the double page spread on the

same software as the contents page, I found this a lot more easy to make due to me having more experience on the product.

• I found creating the main image easy (and difficult). When I got the best picture, I put the photo into Photoshop and used tools on there, including changing the contrast and the brightness, to make my main image look conventional and appeal to a indie rock target audience.

• Creating the headline was very easy as I came up with the idea of what was going to be on the previously and when I found the right font (skyline) on Dafont, the rest was just to implement the headline onto the double page spread.

• The text for the caption and the credits was the easiest part of the whole media products because it was just to make a text box and type in the content.

What did I find difficult.

• As said in the previous slide, I found getting the main image to be difficult and easy. I found taking the photo a difficult task with myself having to go back taking more photos because the other ones not being very good, ether being very out of focus or looking wrong with a poor background.

• I found creating stand first difficult because I kept on changing my mind with what was going to be in the stand first and the colour however I believe that in the end I made the right decision with the orange background and what is in the stand first.

• I found the drop cap difficult because I hadn’t done that previously and found it extremely difficult to create, because the whole text moved when I did it meaning I had to change it constantly and I think I just took up so much time for me to finish and frustrating me to finally do.

• The pull quote was difficult for the same reason as the drop cap because whenever I moved the pull quote slightly it meant that the whole of the main body text would move frustrating me and making it very difficult for me perfect it.

What were the main tools that I used.

• I only used two tools in quart and one in Photoshop to make my double paged spread.

• The text tool was the tool I used the most because I only had one image to put onto the double page and the majority of the spread was taken up by text including the main body text and many many more.

• I used the image tool by drawing the image box and importing the image into the box and re-shaping the image to make it fit.

• In photo shop I used tools like brightness and contrast to make my image look more conventional and stand out to the audience making them more likely to buy it.