Double Page spread - Big Cheese.

To broaden my understanding of double page spread articles I am going to also analyse one from the other magazine I am using for my research, Big Cheese.

This is a typical layout that Big Cheese use in their magazines; this one features 30 Seconds To Mars. They have one large image that takes up three quarters of the page on the left. The bottom is slightly obscured by white and red text which introduces the article to the reader and lets them know what they will be reading about. Below this is large writing which is placed to look like the title of the article but is actually a quote from the lead singer Jared Leto.

The article itself has been placed in a black box on the right hand side of the double page and has been slightly blended into the image so that the line that divides the image from the text isn't as prominent as a solid black line. This helps the page flow together and look as one part instead of two pieces. They have chosen the colour of the box to be black because the image is dark so the black  also helps the page to flow. The image also looks unnatural as they have enhanced the saturation of the colours.At the top of the column there is a white rectangular shaped patch coming in from the right that looks as though it has been torn from the black box. This indicates the name of the band that the article is about. Below in the rest of the black box is the interview itself written in white writing to contrast the black background. The article is split into several paragraphs to make it easier for the audience to read.

Big Cheese typically use this set up for a lot of their double page spread articles that they include in their magazines. However sometimes they flip the order of the page; image on the right, article on the left. They also sometimes have more than one column of text depending on the length of the article that they have written.
This is a really effective approach to a double page spread and I like how the image and the text box blends together. When designing the double page spread for my magazine I will most likely include some aspects of this example.