making my double page spread

With my original artist focus here is the double page spread I had began to make. The article would have featured 100 rock songs, and it would have been presented as a list, as shown:
I then went on to change my artist, as I did not think the original band targetted my intended audience well enough. I also felt that I could have taken pictures that showed my genre a lot clearer, this is what I did. After I decided what image I would use, I imported it onto my double page spread, using a similar article. I have also followed a similar colour scheme but altered the order of the colours, this makes it look a lot more attractive and is much more likely to appeal to my audience.

I then figured that because it is a double page spread it will be on A3 paper. This means that just because the writing seems small on the computer screen it doesn't mean it will be small once printed. After printing out a sample, the writing was way too big and needed to be reduced. I looked at some existing double page spreads and realised my writing need to be made a lot smaller, to a font size of around 10, to match the conventions of existing magazines.

Adding a lot more text and reducing it's size meant it was harder to read with the colour scheme. Some text overlapped onto the picture which made it difficult to read. I changed the colours so that it was easier to understand, and then realised it did not fit in with my colour scheme. I found this problem difficult to over come, and so needed to find a solution to it. I needed to use the uniform colour scheme, and make sure that all the text could be understood. This is what contributed to changing my idea all together.

I looked through some existing magazines again and realised that my original article idea did not follow the conventions. I needed some form of text and decided to change my article to an introduction to an interview of a band. I also looked through my images to give me some ideas of what I could use, and found the perfect image, in black and white. This gave me the idea of using only black and white on my double page spread. This meant a lot of things had to be changed on my page and the layout would be totally different.

Here is what I came up with;