Double page spread production

Firstly I set up my Quark document to have facing pages and three columns on each page. This is so that it would be set out like a real double page spread article. To start the production of it, I added the images to the pages. I knew how I was going to set them out through my plan so I made the main image large across the left hand side and three smaller images on the right all next to each other.

I then added my headlines, websites and the page numbers with the name of the magazine next to them. To add the headline over the main image I made the font white so that it was visible and I used the font Bronx bystreets in size 48pt. For the other part of the headline on the right hand side page I used the font Plane crash at size 44pt. I added the website to the left hand corner of the page and the right hand corner. On the left I had to make it white so it was still visible on top of the image and on the right I kept it black. I did this aswell with the page numbers and magazine name next to it. For the website I used the font bronxbystreets at size 11pt. For the page numbers with magazine name next to them I used the font bronxbystreets at size 10pt.

I then added four thick lines going across the right hand page. I made them bright green. I put them there so the right hand side of the page would look more filled as I was worried it would appear empty and boring. I also added them and made them green because I wanted the double page spread to continue with the green house style that is occurring throughout my products.

I then added the interview that I conducted to the right hand side page. I did this interview and it fit equally into the three columns. For the questions that I asked I put these in a slightly more bold font of bronx bystreets at size 10pt and then the answer to the question in the font Arial at 9size pt. I did this because I wanted the question and answer to be clearly defined on the interview and it also made the text look better and more interesting. I also added a pull-quote in the middle of the interview. This is where you take a quote from what the interviewed has said and you make it stand out above the other text. I did this and made the quote in the font Plane crash at size 12pt in a green colour, to stand out as a successful pull quote and also continue with the house style of my products and also the colour the scheme of the double page spread itself.

I then added a stand first which included a drop capital. The standfirst is there to introduce what the article is going to be about and it did this for me. I placed it just above the article and below the second headline. I used the font Bronx bystreets in size 13pt for this. I did this because the stand first needs to stand out and be larger than the interview if it is to follow codes and conventions. I also added the captions to the images just underneath them in a small font size of 9pt in Arial.

I included a drop capital to the standfirst. I did this because it follows codes and conventions and in my opinion makes the text look better and more interesting as it adds an other dynamic to it. I added the drop capital by making a text box close to the standfirst and writing the first letter of the standfirst into this text box instead of the standfirst text box and I made the letter in a bigger font still bronxbystreets though but the size was 48pt.