Improving my Double-Page Spread

Draft 4

My Improvements 

In order to add the text to my double-page spread, I exported my design as a JPG and opened Microsoft Publisher. I then inserted the image as a background on an A3 Landscape layout. Now I could insert and align my text a lot easier than on Adobe Photoshop. 

Then I inserted and aligned my text. I put the text in columns because this is conventional of magazines. 

I added a Drop Cap for the first letter of my article and for the Q's for the questions to make them stand out more. It is also a convention of magazines. 

 

Next, I made the stars yellow so that they stood out more as well as moving them to the left side of the page. I did this because we read from left to right and I want it to be one of the first things the audience sees, as knowing a film received four stars may make them more likely to want to read more about it. 

I also added a pull quote which is conventional of magazine spreads.

I decided to change the stars to a symbol for my film having won an award. Because my film is a student film, I chose a local film festival as it would be more realistic for my film to win one of these rather than an award from an international film festival. I am also going to add this to my poster to create synergy between the two products. 

Then I added a standfirst. 

I didn't like how there was a lot of blank space below the standfirst so I moved the main text and secondary image up a bit so that there wasn't as much blank space.