Analysis of a Magazine Double Page Spread

This is a double page spread featured in Kerrang Magazine. The main focus in this double page spread is the pictures of the band My Chemical Romance and the quote "We're being the best MCR we can be!". The general theme of the page is black, white and red, with the red used to highlight key parts and make it look interesting to grab the readers attention. Images of the band take up more of the page than the actual text. This may be to do with the target audience of the magazine and keeping it short and sweet with lots of pictures.

The images used of the band contrast with the headline of the article. Showing the band hard at work in the studio to really show the reader that they mean it when they say their being the best they can be.

The quote on the double page spread is spread along the two pages. This, with addition of the pictures effectively bring the two pages together to create a double page spread. I will take notes of this and use this in my double page spread.


This is a double page spread featured in the NME Music Magazine. This double page spread has a wide array of colours incorperated within it to grab the readers attention. Immediately the bright blue strikes you and caues you to read into the page. This is done effectively by dotting it all over the double page spread rather than just having one block of it and the rest be black and white. In a way this could be highlighting the most important or most interesting features within this double page spread.

The Double spread uses one main image of the band The Teenagers. On top of this image is a bright blue box with the title "NEED TO KNOW" in a bold black font. This is because the bold black stands out on the bright blue more than the white, so this lets the reader know what that block is about. The image used was taken at a medium longshot, and has us looking down on the band. This could be to show the band as a sort of underdog type band that have just struck it big.

This double page spread doesn't focus entirely on one band. Show at the right hand side of the double page spread is a box containing thumbnail pictures and small articles about other bands that everyone's talking about that week. This could be to point the reader in another direction of musical taste as well as focusing on one band.