A review of Double page Spreads from certain music magazines

1. This is a double page spread for Kerrang magazine. As you can see the colours used are red, white and black,
colours that suggest Rock and Roll. It isn't Kerrang’s house style, in fact it is more like NME’s house style, but
the colours used relate to the band My Chemical Romance, which is the band that the article is talking
about. As you can see the page is filled with more pictures than text, this will appeal to the readers as they
might prefer having less text than pictures. Sometimes pictures can say more than words. These pictures of
My Chemical Romance show what the band has been doing in the recording studio. The column in
This is the first the right hand
double page I side of the
have analysed page tells you
where the information
image and font about the new
both go over My Chemical
to the second Romance
page, this songs. If the
means that the audience
picture is didn’t want to
slightly bigger
read the text,
than the other
as they may
double page
spread think it is too
pictures as time
well as the consuming,
font. the can read a
brief opinion
The pictures and the colours used have the connotation of Rock and Roll, of from Kerrang
passion and of effort. Some pictures show you the real effort the band has put about the new
MCR songs
into its new album in the recording studio.

2. This is a double page spread of Q magazine. I know it’s Q magazine as the typically have the first letter of
the artists name in the background of the text. For instance, here is an article on Cheryl Cole that’s why
there is the giant red ‘C’ in the background of the text. The ‘C’ fits in with Q’s logo, which is simply a
white Q in a red background. This is a red C in a white background. So, the colours used fit with the Q
house style
In the
They use one of
the two pages lengthy
In this double piece of
page spread, to text the C’s
have a picture
of Cheryl Cole
stand out
filling up one of which is
the pages. Next done
to the smaller purposely
picture in the
bottom left as if it
corner of the stands for
first page is a Cheryl Cole.
quote. This
quote will draw
At the top of the page is a title saying ‘Cheryl Cole’. The title is the only thing on
readers into the
the double page spread written in a gold font, this makes it stand out. It also has
article instead
the connotation of glamour, as there is a nice gold shine in the font. I also noticed
of just flicking that ‘Cole’ is written all in capitals, this may suggest that in the article is
over the page information on Cheryl and Ashley Cole, as they were still together when this
magazine was published.

3. This is a double page spread from the magazine The source, which is a rap magazine. There is a lot of text upon this
double page spread yet it is spread across the two pages, unlike the Q magazine which had a picture filling up the
whole of one page and text and a small picture filling up the other. This magazine however, has text and pictures
mixed up between the two pages. You could argue that this magazine is cluttered though because of this.
The only things that
could catch the readers
eye on these pages are,
the images and the
Headings. They will
make the reader want
to read the article if It
is a subject the reader
is interested in. The
text highlights key
words in bold, this way
the reader can skim
across the words to get
sort of a summary of
the article, as the
words highlighted are
key words.
The colours used one these two pages don’t represent the house colours, even though The Source changes it font
colour every issue, it is usually red, yet it has also been coloured green and gold. The colours used here are in my
opinion very dull, as it consists of black font and white background. The images are the only things with a bit more
colours that may attract the readers eye. However, I feel this double page spread wont really appeal to people.