This is one of the few Double Page Spreads I am designing. I have stuck to the colour scheme of the front cover so this avoids confusion for the readers. I have chosen bright colours because it will attract my target audience. I have chosen bright pink because my featured band is a girl band and i'm sticking to stereotypes, codes and coventions to appeal to more people. My image of the drummer and vocalist. I have asked them to pose like this because it shows anarchy and rebellion. This will appeal to teens as they too will be experiencing a phase of rebellion, it may even influence them to start their own girl band. I have stuck to a number of double page conventions. I have used a slug and a caption in the top left hand side of the image. A slug is a short snappy bit of writing at the top corner of a magazine. In this case it's entitled "news" This will tell the reader that this section of the magazine is based on news. As I only have one image I decided to add a caption underneath the slug. My caption says "for more info, www.reverbmag.co.uk" This lets the reader know if they want to find out any further information about the featured band they can do so by going to the magazine's official website. I have placed a by line in the top right hand side corner of the magazine. I decided to place it there because that side of the magazine looked bare, and i wanted to add another double page spread convention. The by line tells the reader who took the main image, and who wrote the article. I have also put in a pull quote reading "we're going to be the up and coming artist that everyone's talking about" This arrogant quote tells the reader that they are in fact going to be the up and coming artist that everyone will be talking about. It is a very cliched quote but the confidence of the quote may attract media/record label attention to the band, it will also attract a lot of people to go and listen to their music as they are so confident. I have quite a lot of white space in my image, I have edited it this way to avoid the page looking too busy, this caters for my target audience as they have a short attention span and if the page is too busy they won't absorb all of the information. I have added a page number at the bottom right hand corner of the page. This will tell readers what page they are on. I have also added the magazine name next to the number. I thought this would look better than just having a number. I have used the same font as the masthead on the front cover. I also have leading text which introduces the article. I have decided to include this because it gives the reader an insight to what they are reading before they decide to read the entire article. It's also in a bigger font so teens will prefer to read this. I have used grungy brushes from photoshop to emphasize that the band are grungy. I have used these as backgrounds for text and my page number.
This is my mockup for my first double page spread. I have used several DPS conventions such as, slug, caption, main image, article, page number and by line. My image is slightly over half the page so it crosses the gutter. My article title follows the third rule, it is slightly off centre to show the informality. 
This is one of my double page spread drafts. I have stuck to the colour scheme of pink black and white which features on my front cover so this avoids confusion and complexity for my target audience. I have chosen bright colours because it will attract my target audience. I have chosen bright pink because my featured band is a girl band and i'm sticking to stereotypes, codes and coventions to appeal to more people. My header is entitled "Spice girls gone wrong" This will attract people who like the Spice Girls. My image of the drummer and vocalist. I have asked them to pose like this because it shows anarchy and rebellion and they look quite angry which relates to the stereotype of teen angst. This will appeal to teens as they too will be experiencing a phase of rebellion, it may even influence them to start their own girl band. I have stuck to a number of double page conventions. I have used a slug and a caption in the top left hand side of the image. A slug is a short snappy bit of writing at the top corner of a magazine. In this case it's entitled "news" This will tell the reader that this section of the magazine is based on news. To fill the space under the article i decided to use other images i have of Right Hook Ruin. I have added a grungy polaroid picture effect to meet the needs of my target audience. I have added an introductory paragraph as it is a double page spread convention. I have decided to include this because it gives the reader an insight to what they are reading before they decide to read the entire article. It also fills the space above the image. I have made the text slanted to show informality. I have quite a lot of white space in my image, I have edited it this way to avoid the page looking too busy, this caters for my target audience as they have a short attention span and if the page is too busy they won't absorb all of the information. I have added a page number at the bottom right hand corner of the page. This will tell readers what page they are on. I have also added the magazine name next to the number. I thought this would look better than just having a number. I have used the same font as the masthead on the front cover. It's also in a bigger font so teens will prefer to read this. I have used grungy brushes from photoshop to emphasize that the band are grungy. I have used these as backgrounds for text and my page number. 
This is a mockup of one of the double page spread that i am designing. I have set it out so it follows the eye flow rule. The reader will see the header first, then read the introductory text, then see the image, and the read the article. I will use grungy shapes to meet the needs of my target audience. I will include a slug and caption as they are double page spread conventions and will inform the reader about the magazine. I have added supporting images to fill the space and my target audience prefer more images than text.
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