Construction of Double Page Spread

Lastly, the development/construction of my Double Page Spread. Again the process needs to be shown in order to highlight my development of how I created it. Previous to this I wrote my article that will feature on the double page spread which is mentioned in my last post.

I selected my chosen picture for my main double page spread. I thought this suited my spread perfectly due to the picture being taken with the model offset to the left allowing space on the right for the article. However, although the way this photograph has been structured is acceptable the lighting on this specific day was not the best and was very dull and grey therefore, made the picture appear very dark and consequently has made the right side of his face very dark due to shadows. Therefore, needing some sort of manipulation to fix this problem.

I firstly began lighting the entire picture increasing the brightness and contrast where necessary and to the appropriate amount in order to hopefully lighten and disguise the fact that the lighting wasn't as good as it could have been. I also removed any blemishes from my models face, by using the cloning tool; like the mole above his upper lip and smoothed his face out in general to give a smoother complexion . However, despite brightening up the entire picture there is still a very clear shadow darkening his entire right eye almost making it not visible. Therefore, this is an issue that will need to be resolved.

Choosing the Lasso Tool I carefully selected the area of my models eye that appeared extremely dark and the part I wish to lighten. Using the lasso tool will give me an accurate selection therefore, should look fairly natural and not modified .

By selecting the levels this gives me the control to alter the lighting of that one area I highlighted with the lasso. Making it appear darker or lighter with altering the scale. With this simple feature, it fixes the issue of the dark shadow and lifts the whole face entirely.

I then began to concentrate on the entire double page spread. Once I had finished editing my main photograph I placed it into InDesign making sure the page was setup as a TWO PAGE SPREAD due to its default being one single A4 layout. Reflecting my research I decided to insert an oversized 'D' (the beginning letter of the artists names 'David Hall') I set it to a light grey matching the colour scheme of the photo. I also set it to a TRANSPARENT effect so that it FADES into the background.

Following on from my research I decided to insert the full name of the artist along the top of the 'D' in a 'Times New Roman' capital font, also underlining it to make it stand out off the page accompanied with a drop shadow.

I inserted a column of the article in black, and because everything is of similar colours the black doesn't stand out against the background and is practically unreadable. Therefore, the only way to solve this issue is to simply keep the 'D' however, crop the other half of the picture so that the writing is more visible as it needs to be easy to read for the readers otherwise it will not appeal to them due to the poor visibility.

To break the interview questions up from the answers I decided to make the font of the questions in red, following on my colour scheme throughout the magazine of black, white, grey and red. This colour separation in the article helps to break it up and make it easily readable.
I followed this technique throughout the whole article, and without the background it made the article a lot more readable than before.

However, I decided to remove the 'David Hall' from above the 'D' as I felt it looked quite pointless and something more meaningful could appear across the whole of the top of the spread.

A part of the text that needed to be inserted according to my research is the raised letter at the beginning of the article. This minute feature makes the article look far more professional.

 In place of the 'David Hall' that I removed I chose to insert a quote that was mentioned at the end of the article as it appears far more personal than just inserting his name at the top of the page. It really highlights that the article is about David Hall and is about what he has to really say. I created this by makings a text box, typing in the text, I chose a font that was mentioned previously and used on the front page to show continuity and as if
it has been written out by hand, I then underlined it to show its importance and finally added a drop shadow to emphasis the phrase and make it stand out.

I then carried on the quote however, set the line width slightly more to give it that bigger, bolder look emphasising every word that is being said, setting each important phrase beneath one another. Creating a variety in sentence structure and making it look more creative to the eye.


I lastly, followed the important codes and conventions of a double page spread and was sure to insert PULL QUOTES a very important aspect of double page spreads which make them look professional and break up the entire article so it doesn't look like a boring page of text. I firstly, created a text box and entered the required quote making sure the font was a fair bit bigger than the article font to make it appear different to the article text.