Double Page spread Flat Plan for my music magazine

This is my initial flat plan for my double page spread of my music magazine using Microsoft Publisher. I have used NME as a huge inspiration for the majority of my magazine and my double page spread holds a lot of components that may be seen in magazines such as NME. I have decided that I will use one main image as my feature photograph of my main article, my fictional artist 'Elle Nilson'. I came up with this name as the name of my model used in my photographs was name Ellie and so I just slightly adjusted her name to fit a more singer/songwriter image within the indie genre. Filling one whole page of a double page spread it a typical feature that occurs a lot throughout indie magazines and I really like the look of this as it allows one, high quality that represents the artist as a whole. Another convention that I found appealing, which isn't too common, is to have the main title to the article take up around 1/3 of the page with a stand out font. I also included 3 columns of text as I thought that this was an appropriate ratio of image to text on the page, as too much text at the beginning of an article may deter some readers from continuing on, and this structured the page a lot more. To make my double page spread look as professional as possible, I will included a bi line, telling the reader who the photographs were taken by and also a journalist bi line. 

I will included the date and page number in the bottom right hand page and bottom left hand page. Another convention that will set up/lead up to the main article of an interview that I will use will be a kicker. Here, the journalist bi line will be mentioned and will tell the audience what they are about to read in a nutshell before going in to further detail to the interview. I plan to only stick to a few stand out colours with the rest of the text on the page remaining black in a serif font to add professionalism to the page. One component that I found really appealing through doing my research was the use of a 'twitter talk' box displaying tweets from the public/audience. I decided to include one of these not only to give the magazine an aspect of realism but it also adds a point of entry to my magazine.