Creating My Music Magazine Double Page Spread
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The document describes the steps taken to create a double page spread in QuarkXpress 8 for a magazine article. It involves: 1) Creating the title using downloaded fonts and turning one word sideways. 2) Writing the interview in Arial 12pt and adding photo boxes with gaps. 3) Adding photographs of different sizes to provide different feels. 4) Adding captions in Arial 14pt to explain the photos and make it look professional. 5) Formatting the text with questions in white and answers in red with Corbel font.
Creating My Music Magazine Double Page Spread
- 1. Creating my Double Page Spread Using QuarkXpress 8
- 2. Creating my title; Firstly I created my title using a font I downloaded off of a free font site called ‘Da Font.’ I used this for the 3 main words ‘Girl’ ‘Broken’ and ‘Mirror’. I then used a text called Freestyle Script. I then turned the word ‘The’ sideways as I thought this would make the text look more like the band logo.
- 3. Writing the interview; Next I wrote my interview. I made the boxes with a 3mm gap in between. When writing it I simply used Arial in a size 12 however I will change this later. I used a red coloured font but I will change this when I have done the rest of my formatting.
- 4. Adding in the photographs; Next I added some photos using the picture content tool which is highlighted in this picture. I wanted one to be larger and looked like it is off a photo shoot and two individual photos which worked well. I then used 3 smaller photos which look more ‘homemade’ which I think adds a personal feel to the article.
- 5. Adding a caption; Next I added a caption for my photographs to explain more about them and make the magazine look more proffesional. I used Arial 14pt and used a black font as this showed up best.
- 6. Captions Completed; I added captions to all my photos again, to give more information about them. I used Arial font in 14pt and 12pt again using the black font colour.
- 7. Adding a quote to my page; Next I added a quote into my double page spread which is highlighted in red above. I made the quote marks bigger and bolder using baseline shift to make the fact it’s a quote stand out more.
- 8. Changing colour; I then changed the colour of the quote to white as I wanted it to fit in with my colour of white, red and black. I kept the quote marks red as I thought this would fit in better.
- 9. Adding shadow; After experimenting with the three main colours I decided that my quote would look better with the text in red and the white in quote marks. I then changed the font from Arial to Corbel and added a shadow to the red text. Both the columns are 98mm wide with a 3mm gap inbetween.
- 10. Formatting the text; Finally I decided to edit the text to make it look more interesting. I still stuck to my red, white and black colour scheme so I decided to make the opening paragraph and questions white and the answers red. I used the font ‘corbel’ and used size 14pt for the questions and 12pt for the rest.
- 11. Final Double Page Spread;