Final Double Page Spread Evaluation

My double page spread i feel did not live up to my expectation through fault of my own, i feel that it hasnt turned out the way i would of liked it to because i didnt organise my time in the best way to give myself maximum potential. However i do think that there are also good points to the peice. For example...One of the good points to this design i think would be the motion picture centring the whole double page spread. I think this is one of the strong points as i found when i looked through both music magazines and snowboarding magazines they tend to use the sort of style you would find in a family scrap book, much like the idea of using different lettering from different magazines to form one font. I also noticed that most snowboarding magazines used the motion picture idea but from a better angle facing directly to the right hand side of the jumper. I attempted this by mixing the two previous ideas combined. As a whole i feel the method went well by using the photo frame with the pin holding it up but you cant really see me doing the jump as the day of which it was taken had flat light so it was more diffucult to edit in a sunny day sky.

This is the kind of thing i was trying to achieve in my flick book effect method, although this one is done from a different angle so you can see the whole trick, same as the trick i did however the angle changes along with the direction.

THIS WAS SCANNED FROM WHITLINES MAGAZINE

As for the main purpose of the page being top boarding tracks of 2010, i used a consistand font throughout the magazine layout with a size 11 white font with a shadow at 150 degree angle. This worked well as it made the magazine look more consistant and professional but at the same time it kept it from being too boring. I also used an image as a banner with the same font in the corner saying 'Official Ratings' as i found on most music countdown websites and programmes all used this to attract viewers or readers.

Although there is no hiding the fact that the main theme of this orange is very boring and it doesnt have alot going for it, i think this because unlike the contents and the front cover it hasnt got a main image in the background.

This part of my magazine production does follow the normal convensions of media in a way that it keeps to a house style, in this case orange, but in comparision to the rest of the project i feel this was a dissapointment.

This is effective in the 'flick book' style iimage but unlike the front cover and the contents page this uses a single solid colour as a background. If i was to re do the entire project, I woild replace this normal background for one of a related image in a high contrast. Another option I could have taken is to enlarge the flick book images, but I refrained from this because of fear it would destort the images pixles.

Audience Feedback

Poppy Kessell - 16

"I don't think this is as appealing as the other pages but i like the way the images in the middle replicate the movement of a video. Also it's good as the title and house style are still the same in this part of the magazine"

Ashley Evans - 16

"The best thing on this page is the arrangement of the images in the centre of the page"

Ben Hutton - 27

"I think the best part of the magazine is the moving images, but i still think that this page would be better with a busy background. However the video we shot looks good cut into still images"