In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (Double Page Spread)

I believe my double page spread follows the conventions of other successful music products. When looking at other magazine designs I instantly preferred the double page spreads that had a large image on the page, I thought this deliberately attracts the audience to the page, the audience can recognise the artist which would lead them into reading the article about them. The location of the image looks ‘grungy’, I thought that this location would be ideal to show the artists indie side, that although she is good looking she is not afraid to ‘let herself go’. A stereotyped indie musician is said to be quite ‘rough’ looking with an edge, I thought the edgey sid of the artist is brought out through the use of the ‘dirty’ background. I decided to take a long shot of the artist to show the whole body, as I chose a close up for my front cover I thought it was important to show the reader the whole body. The head line at the top of the page is noticeably not centre, I chose to do this deliberately, as I noticed throught music magazines especially NME the structure is never the same. The overlapping of text also insinuates that the page is a double page spread. The text is in a bold black font which in conventional of a magazine to draw the reader in to read the interview. I decided to state the artists name in a larger blue font, the reason for the choice of blue was that it contrasts with all the colours on the page, this will make the artists name stand out and suggests what the interview will be about. The beginning of the interview begins with a larger letter in the blue coloured font, it is a convention to make sure the beginning letter is in a larger font. The structure of the interview is in three separate columns, I decided to choose this structure as then it is not set in an ‘essay’ structure, many music readers would not want to read a block of text. The bottom right of the double page spread is black box that states another page number suggesting a ‘gig guide’, I decided to choose this as it attracts the reader to carry on reading the magazine, and also links in with the interview when ‘Fleur’ is talking about a festival.