Revisit the presentation on double page spread layouts and do some research of your own. Here are two slides of some that we found.
Find your photo – lay it out with columns for the article (2-3)
Remember you can use place holder text i’psum lorem’ to act as the text until the article is fully signed off. Should be in text/type section.
You should have the following asap:
- 2 x A4 pages side by side in indesign.
- Photo (if does not have to be one from the location shoot so can be from the front cover shoot – your choice)
- Consider where the staples will be i.e. line your photo/headline and article up carefully so that it isn’t lost in the staple fold.
- Space for the Headline – grabs the attention – alliteration – hyperbole – superlatives to make the reader stop and read on
- Space for the Standfirst – a short paragraph that expands on the headline and further tempts the reader to read on.
- Columns/space for the article in paragraphs.
Then you can focus on :
- Turn off hyphenate – type/tables/paragraph – untick hyphenate
- Drop capital – indicates where the article starts (on the tab at the top there is an icon)
- By line – who wrote the article
- Caption on the photo to anchor it
- 2 x page numbers bottom left and bottom right
- Serif text for the copy of the article – easier to read – with ticks and flicks
- If the whole article does not fit on the 2 pages – don’t worry as you can add…continued on Page XXX…just so long as the whole article is in the blog so that the examiner can read it all in one place.