Double Page Spread- Working Progress

 Firstly I started off my double page spread by adding in the image I had previously edited in Photoshop. I knew I wanted to carry on the black and white image theme from my front cover, but did not want the whole image to be black and white. To make the my model stay in colour, i duplicated the layer, used the lasso tool to select around the part I wanted to keep in colour, and used the layer mask tool to keep that part in colour and be able to put the background in black and white.

I then went ahead and chose a font for the main title. I decided to try a font that would clash with the basic, sans serif font I was planning to use for my main body text, but I also wanted to make sure it would fit in with the main coverline i used on the front cover of my magazine. I decided to use a brush typeface called "Levi ReBrushed" because it gave me the messy and hand-drawn effect i wanted on my double page.

After doing that I added in the page numbers, and to make sure they stood out i added in a black box around them. At first, at full opacity, they stood out too much on the page and so to make them look more subtle i lowered the opacity until they created the look i wanted.

I then decided the make a start on where I wanted to place my pull quote, I decided to put it on the right-hand side of the right page where I was placing my main text, making sure it was aligned with the boxes that had the page numbers in. I also decided to add in speech marks to make it 100% clear that it was a pull quote. Instead of putting them in with the text, I made them larger and a different typeface, so it created contrast. I played around with them a lot to get them where I wanted and to create the certain look that I wanted.

 When I eventually thought that the quote itself looked right I decided it needed to be dominant on the page and so I decided to add a coloured box behind the text and the speech marks. I wanted the colour to stand out on the page, as it is filled with mainly text, so I decided to create contrast with a bright orange, which also concorded with the colours on the image. At first it was very bright, so I decided to lower the opacity so that it still caught the readers eye, but was fairly subtle on the page as a whole. I also decided the box needed to go out of the guidelines, because i wanted the text to look like it was in a grid, and i knew it would be too much alignment if the right-hand edge of the box aligned with the text aswell as the left-hand side.

Finally, I added in the main body text and used Lorem Ipsum, the generated type, so i did not have to come up with my own text. I created one long column on the left-hand side, making sure it was aligned and the text itself was selected to 'justify'. This meant that it would not be aligned to the right or left, but would align square, giving the illusion that it was in a column. I then added text above and below the pull quote, but made sure that the text was not too close to the box so that it did not conflict with it. I also made sure that this side of text aligned with the pull quote text, again giving the illusion of a column.