First Draft of Features Pages

Below are the two double page spreads that I have created for my feature pages of my magazine. Even though the brief said 'a double page spread', I've created two as I personally think that this is more accurate to other music magazines which I've noticed from my research, and think that it works really well. From my research into music magazines, it's not often that the main feature of the magazine, in which mine is, is only across one page. This inspired me to go further and create two, also meaning that I had more of a chance to show my innovative idea's for the opening double page spread. 

 From looking at my first draft of opening double page spread, I think that the page itself gets across the theme of the article to follow, as well as portraying what sort of band is featured to an audience who is unaware before reading on. The biggest problem with this page is the placing of the text, as it goes through the middle, and would be cut out when properly forming part of a magazine. I need to look at how I could rearrange the text in a slightly different way to overcome this problem. I also need to see if it's possible for me to take some more pictures, but featuring all of three of the members as this is what the article is based upon. This was my plan from the beginning, but due to inconvenience of the band I could only photograph Jamie Ellis. However, I do think that by just using images of him on his own grabs the readers attention as it gives them more to focus on, and makes it clear who the front man of the band is. 

Above is the second double page spread of the draft of the features page. I think that this page was successful in following the conventions of a music magazine as it has features such as a pull quote, a heading in the top left naming the band, columned text and the main image on the right as this is the first page the reader see's when turning the page. However I do think there is still a lot of room for improvement. The smaller image is oddly placed when looking at the whole spread, so the layout of fitting in the image with the text would need to change. I could also look into the different sizes of text, for example on the first paragraph, this could be enlarged further to make the page even more eye-catching.