Development of double page article

In this blog post, I will talk about my double page article developments,the positive and the negative points and how and what I improved through each draft

Draft 1
 

This was my initial layout for my article. it is not complete yet, but I am just showing the base layout of the page. I had planned on putting the main body of text in 2 or 3 columns on one side of the page and placing a A4 sized picture on the other half covering the page. I decided to add a caption on the photo "Ken Rebel @ 10:00 02 Arena". I added this to induce a sense of realism and distinctiveness for my magazine article because I havent really seen this use of captions often for it to be considered generic or conventional. Additionally, I followed the same housestyle colours as the two previous pages, black and white, this makes the template colours more consistent.

Draft 2

This is my improved version of the contents page. I had made some major modifications to the previous version, for example the template, I have changed it so that the Main image is in the middle of the double page spread. I did this so that I could induce a sense of uniqueness and distinction. This type of housestyle is not used typically. I also add a quote "all I want is success". This is a conventional trait many magazines apply to their own articles.






Draft 3

After much time and consideration, I chose to revert to the original draft but improve and adjust it more. For example I added a caption that the columns of text wrap around and I added a simple but conventional feature page numbers. I chose this style of layout because it looked more professional and it appealed to me more than draft 2`s layout did.