Double page spread

Like with the poster, I wanted to research effective movie articles to look at typical tropes and layouts in order to attract public attention and curiosity. 

I selected these 4 posters as they show similarities and differences between double page spreads. We can see similarities in that the article is written in columns but doesn't cover important aspects of the image, the headline and tagline are much larger than the rest of the text in order to catch attention of the audience.

However, both articles for The Hobbit and Fantastic Beasts separate the text from the images. This is much more effective on the Fantastic Beasts article as the text is made interesting by being at different levels on the page and using more white space, doing this makes the article look shorter and more easily consumable by the audience compared to The Hobbit article which looks considerably more boring. 

On all of the pages, the image is the most important factor. In these, the main character is the main feature even in the image for 'The Hobbit' there is high key lighting on Bilbo compared to the other characters. It's important for the text not to cover the image, this is what people are more likely to take notice of when flicking through a magazine and avoids the page looking (unintentionally) too busy

In my opinion, i find that having the text over the white space in the image is much more effective as it visually flows better.

I decided on my main image as there is lots of white space and the image only has the main character in the image making it perfect for my double page. The colour of the image has been dulled and greyed to stick within the horror genre. The font connects the spread to the actual movie and the movie poster to create flow and a 'corporate style' (a style associated with the film)

I chose to use two different text colours because the black font will not be clear and visible on the dark back ground it also looks more like a real magazine if there is a subtitle (top right) as it will make the pages identifiable from the contents page instead of page numbers. 

Many double page spreads have other images or screen grabs from the movie on their pages which i Included in the first draft however the image decreases the amount of white space on the page making it look crowded and more amateur than not having it. Therefore, I have opted for the second draft in a 'less is more' approach.