main task codes and conventions of a music double page spead

• The main image takes up a whole page.
• The main image is bleeds across to the next page.
• The headlines usually stretch across the two pages.
• Strap lines or boarders often bleed across the two pages.
• There is sometimes a drop capital at the start of an article so you know where to start reading from.
• Bold type is used on the first paragraph which has a slightly bigger type face.
• More than one image is usually used.
• Smaller images are used to break up the text, which makes it more appealing to the eye to read panels and quotes can also be used to this effect.
• Quotes are sometimes used on the main image.
• There is a by-line which is the name or the artist who wrote the article. Usually at the end of the article.
• There is usually a credit of the name of the person who did the photography.
• Stand first goes under the headline.
• Creative, eye catching headlines.
• The artist's names are highlighted.
• Page numbers are at the bottom of the magazine with the issue date.
• There is usually a website address.
• There is a limited use of colour.
• Usually lay out in columns (3 or 4).
• The stand first has a larger font size.
• An informal style of writing is used.
• The personality of the writer comes through in the article by the way it is written and the use of opinions.