Double page spread construction

The first thing I did was open a Photoshop document in A3 size. The first thing that I did was adding yellow bars to the left hand side of my page using the rectangle marquee tool. I positioned one down the left side and one that comes into the page that the title would be positioned on. The next thing that I did was to put the image that I was going to use into Photoshop. Once I had done this, I cropped the image and then used the transform controls in order to stretch the image and used the move tool to position the image on the right hand side of the page.

The second thing that I did was to add the masthead. The masthead was ‘A dream come true’. This was added using the text tool in myriad pro font. I used this as my masthead as it can be easily recognised from my cover and contents as they advertise the story talking about living the dream.  I made the masthead 1/8 of the page in order to stick to conventions. Beneath this, I used the text tool again to write some teasers, which were also the questions asked. I used the same font, but the text was smaller than the masthead. I made the teasers alternating in boldness in order to draw attention to them. The next step was to add the name of the boy that the article was about. I put this in a larger font than the teasers and masthead. This was because it would be recognisable from the cover and contents pages. For the main body of I wrote in text boxes using the text tool in myriad pro, again. I used the grid tool to make sure that all of my text was in line.

The final thing that I added was a fact file on the right hand side of the page to add more to the page than just text and an image. I made this using the rectangle marquee tool, to create a black box shape. I then put text over top of it using the text tool. I used the colour pallet to make the text yellow so that it would stand out and continue my colour scheme throughout my whole magazine. I also followed another common convention of double page spreads by adding a page number. I created a yellow circle using the ellipse tool. I made this shape yellow, once again. I then added a number to it using the text tool.