Music magazine annotations

Double page spread 1

This is an unconventional double page spread. This is because there is one large image with a small amount of text to surround it. On a usual double page spread there would be more text and more smaller images to surround the text. The text would be to inform the reader about the band but in this case the image does this and the text just enforces the message of the image. This could suggest that the band speaks for themselves or could suggest that as the band may not need to be explained as their music speaks for itself. However this is for the audience to interpret. I may only use one image for my double page spread so that the audience will not get bored reading a lot of text. From experiance double page spreads of magizines are often used as posters so reducing the text on these pages increases the sellability factor of the magazine.

The lack of colour on these pages could suggest that the band is serious. As the colours grey, black and red are the main colours used on this page the style of the band are portrayed through these colours. The band is old and so is the music they play. This is why the colours in the magazine are dull, looking as if they are from the past. This may attract more readers because they can see what type of music the magazine portrays by the colours used. If the reader understands what the colours mean then they can see that the song is old and know if they like it or not.

Red is the most commonly used colour in most magazines and this makes the magazines appropriate for all readers. The colours in the magazine are not one sided and so this makes the magazine more popular to all different types of readers. The colour red and the small amount of blue on the double page spread stands out against the dull background which makes the colours even more outstanding. I like how the image has been used as there is only a small amount of colour on this double page spread which adds to the affect.

The thing i would change if this was my magazine would be to add a little more text to the left hand side of the page and let the text overlap the picture more so that more of the text could fit on the page. this also make the image look more centred on the spread and may attract the audience more. I think that if there is too much or not enough text then the reader would get unintrested and so i would have to find the correct balance.