Double Page Spread - Research

Before creating my double page spread I again researched double page spreads by looking at and analysing one from Kerrang and from NME. This double page spread from an issue of Kerrang has a whole page as just one image, with just a little text in the corner, and a small image in the bottom corner. The image is in black and white, however they have tints of red in it, which goes with their theme colour for this as their text is red and white on a black background. There is no other colour on this page apart from red, black and white, which makes the colour scheme stand out even more. There is not a whole lot of text on this double page spread, it mainly consists of images, as there more interesting to the eye. The text that there is, is surronded by images, which makes it look more appealing to read, and because there isn't too much text the reader will most probably read it, as their target audience would be teenagers to young adults, and stereotypically they don't like to read a lot. The 'world exclusive' makes you want to read it more, as you won't see this anywhere else other than this magazine. It is in a red box as red automatically draws in your attention, as danger signs or road signs are red, so it genuinely means something important. From the images we can see that this double page spread is about a concert, from the way he is holding the microphone to the way his expression is on his face with his mouth open. We can also tell this will be about MCR because of the images and the text at the top, the magazine has shortened the word My Chemical Romance down to MCR because they will persume that all their readers will automatically know that, that is what it means. On the right hand side is a column with MCR tracks in it, this is a type of advertising as it advertises there newest songs so people can go and download/buy them. The text is in a box which is white, this on the black background clashes, and stands out a lot, so therefore automatically drawing the eye to it.