Analysis of Double Page Spread (Rock Sound)

This is the double page spread in the magazine (Rock Sound). The layout of these pages are very unusual. In many magazines it is just a big photo on one side and text on the other whereas this double page spread is totally different. It has a main photo of a singer and his dog which stretches over both pages, also it has several other photo's. The use of this makes it very unique and effective for the readers. The photo's are represented as very smug and unusual. The story is about a singer taking a new appraoch to recording a new album and it says in a quote 'have you ever seen the world through a dogs eyes?' this shows why the dogs on the page have been used. It is all very unusual and unique which is constisten for this issue as the other pages are the same.

All the colours used as black and white which is also consistent because they're used very frequently on the other pages to. The text on the page is all spread out very well making it easy to read for the readers. The whole page looks very professional because it is unusual with the use of the singer and a dog which makes it all very attractive, this also suggests that it has took a lot of work to design and produce to the readers are getting their moneys worth by buying the magazine.

The quantity of the text is quite low as not a lot is used this allows other space to be used with the photo's. Different fonts and font sizes are used throughout the double page spread and this stops it from being boring. It makes it more attractive for the reader and also it all stands out very well making it easy to read. The whole page is well presented and the aim of trying to market the singers new albums works very well. It gives the readers the singers myspace and tell them when the new album is released which is seen as a good source of information which the magazine is giving out.