Double page spread magazine essay

The We Love Pop magazine is mainly for teenage girls because it is a bright and colourful magazine full of recent celebrity singers and bands. The Q Magazine is mainly for older men/late teens who are interested in rock music, which is easily noticeable on the magazine double page spread because it has an image of three men with tattoos and long hair, drinking beer which would often signify a rock/heavy metal type band which is stereotypical.

The first magazine ‘We Love Pop’ layout is quite full of images, text, quotes and colour. The main colours used on the spread is light blue, pink and yellow which is quite girly and eye catching for the target audience. There a lots of quotes over the page which are really trying to grab the audiences’ attention that they will read the interview underneath. This is used a lot in We Love Pop magazine as there a many quotes in big, bold writing that have eye catching quotes from the interview for example ‘PEOPLE ARE SO JUDGEMENTAL’ in bright, white, bold font with a large blue box which to pop music fans would be very eye catching. However Q Magazine used only one quote ‘Just a vodka please’ this quote may attract the audience but the font is hardly noticeable as it is in quite similar font just slightly bigger than the interview font therefore some people may not be interested even if they are rock music fans because the font is not eye catching it does not seem important.

The pictures used on the 'We love pop!' page double page spread are quite similar as the story used on the pages focus a lot on Tulisa (pop music star) all of the pictures are either of just herself, or with her and another celebrity singer. This has most probably been done to remind the reader of the magazine what the main story is about and to attract them to the celebrity figures. A variety of posed individual shots and group pictures have been used on the magazine double page spread for varied effect, however the bigger pictures are the of just Tulisa alone, which are long body shots. The smaller pictures have been used to support some parts of the conversation. For example, Tulisa is asked whether she knows a member of One Direction, Harry Styles, and in the middle of the paragraph a picture of them both has been placed for entertainment purposes and to back up the story which is bound to attract pop music lovers especially because One Direction are loved by many females.

However, the Q Magazine double page spread pictures are slightly different. The only picture on the spread is the a large image on the back which takes up the whole of the page which could mean it is important and really wanting to grab attention. The picture is of three male singers, who look like they are having a party, as the picture contains empty bottles of alcohol everywhere, they also have no tshirts on and there is a lot of mess as if a party has just ended. On the bottom right hand corner of the picture, the words 'having a quiet night in’, this is clearly sarcasm and would amuse the audience because they would be intrigued to know what the story is about.

The last feature on these two double page spreads is the layout of the magazines. The 'We Love Pop!' double page spread seems to be set out a lot like a  newspaper article. The headline along the top and a smaller font telling us more information on the story, below the headline, a picture is in the middle of the circle of text and the layout of this page makes the picture really stand out which is the most important part of the page as this is what attracts the audience, and suggests the text links to what the message of the picture is. Below the image shows a quote from the text, again hinting parts of the story to make the reader intrigued to read it. The second page is a large image of Tulisa using the whole page which could mean the story to this image is important, as smaller images may not be as important hence why they are small.

In the Q  Magazine double page spread, the layout is very basic. There are no images on the first page and the text is set out again like a newspaper article as it contains very basic font style and size with little colour. The text is written in 2 columns and takes up a big amount of the page. Much like the 'We Love Pop!' first page. The main headline 'Biffy Clyro' is central along the top, with smaller font below it is explaining more about the article. The text layout has been set out with interview names, with the speech next to the celebrities initials and the question they are being asked above it. 

From studying both completely different magazines I have found that a magazine with more colour, exciting font, lots of images and eye catching quotes attracts the audience much more than a magazine with basic colour, simple font and very few images. Therefore I know that when creating my magazine that I need to use lots of eye catching features that will really attract my target audience.