1. Double-Page Spread Ideas In this presentation are ideas that I brainstormed for the layout of my DPS, improving things as I went along. I need to know how my DPS will be organised before I do the photo-shoot for the main image.
2. This was my first idea, in which there is a sidebar with comments and photos submitted by readers, something Kerrang does often. 1
3. In the magazine almost every page will have a coloured tab like this, showing the reader what the section is about (eg “Recent News”, ”Gigs”, “Poster Special”, “Album Reviews”) so it’s easier for them to navigate. 1 The eye flow works in a conventional ‘c’ shape, starting on the main photo and ending on the body text of the article.
4. I realised the Article Title, Slug and sidebar were a little crowded, so I horizontally flipped everything so that the article title would still be the first thing you read and everything is spacious. 2 I decided the magazine’s name wouldn’t be above the slug anymore to minimise the amount of text.
5. Here the Main Photo takes up the whole page, whereas before the background would have merely been white. I also got rid of the second photo as I thought it was unnecessary and took up space. 3 I added in a space for the Leading Text
6. 3 I realised that if I use this plan, part of my models will be in the crease in the middle, which would interfere with the picture.
7. 3 Unless I positioned them like this, in which case the pages will look uneven.
8. 4 In this plan I’ve gotten rid of the sidebar (using just the corner instead), freeing up space and making the DPS look ordered and uncomplicated. Everything was looking a quite squashed so I made the gutter a little bigger.
9. 5 My main photo will be taken in front of a white wall, so in this plan I can use that to my advantage by taking the image with all my models to the left, leaving white wall for the other half of my picture so that I can put all my text there. Also, this solves the problem of the middle crease being in the middle/on top of my models. The only problem is that the wall of text may seem intimidating for readers who like more images than text.
