Double Page Spread Research

Continuing on with my magazine research, for this assignment, I am going to analyze 2 magazines from my selected genre, in this case being sports, and the contents it holds. More specifically, a Double Page spread. I'll be examining the house style, their focus on design elements like color patterns, and discussing how the text and images they decide to include are used to engage the reader into digging deep in the magazines.

The two magazines that I picked are 2 magazines from "Sports Illustrated". I am going to compare these magazines to each other, highlighting the characteristics in which they have in common and the ones they don't.

MAGAZINE #1

CONTENT: This Double Page spread comes from one of the many sports magazine from Sports Illustrated. In this specific section it talks about the team's victory, while giving it a sense of emotion.

HOUSE STYLE: Sports illustrate doesn't really have any really noticeable house style. They always have the Masthead ,"Sports Illustrated" at the top and a Main Image, who most of the time is a famous athlete, being put as the center of attention by blurring out the background. They will also, almost always, have the main image be a player in action.

NUMBER OF IMAGES: 2

NUMBER OF TOTAL PAGES IN THE ARTICLE: 2

DESCRIPTION OF EACH IMAGE: The images used are connecting images. They connect through the 2 pages. These images show the team celebrating an important win, with one mainly showing a player, and the other highlighting the players and the coach. above them is confetti, which helps show that this was an important achievement in which the team worked hard for. Using these close up pictures of them is used to give readers an emotional connection.

SECTION TITLE: "Day of Redemption"

PULL QUOTES: There were 2 pull quotes in the 2 pages. They are easy to locate because they are bolded in red.

ARTICLE FONT FORMAT: The article uses a combination of Sans serif and Serif.

STYLISTIC FEATURES: The article is not very focused on stylistic features. It mainly focuses on getting straight to the point, with the most stylistic features being the different uses of fonts and sizes.

NUMBER OF COLUMNS PER PAGE: There is 3-4 columns per page.

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MAGAZINE #2

CONTENT: This article came from another magazine from "Sports Illustrated". This one talks about this athletes achievements and his "greatness".

HOUSE STYLE: Sports illustrate doesn't really have any really noticeable house style. They always have the Masthead ,"Sports Illustrated" at the top and a Main Image, who most of the time is a famous athlete, being put as the center of attention by blurring out the background. They will also, almost always, have the main image be a player in action. In this case, some articles also have pictures which go through 2 pages.

NUMBER OF IMAGES: 1

NUMBER OF TOTAL PAGES IN THE ARTICLE: 2

DESCRIPTION OF EACH IMAGE: This article only has this one image which covers the whole page. This image is showing a famous athlete on stage, in an area with semi-dark lighting.

SECTION TITLE:  "The Maestro" is the section title for this article

PULL QUOTES: There are no pull quotes in this article

ARTICLE FONT FORMAT: Since this article doesn't have a lot of writing, not many fonts are able to be used. This article can be seen to use Sans Serif

STYLISTIC FEATURES: The picture they used covers the 2 pages, which is a common thing done in sports illustrated magazines.

NUMBER OF COLUMNS PER PAGE: There is 1 column in a page, while 0 columns in the other.

Comparison

Sports illustrated is a very common and popular magazine brand which talks about sports events, teams, and players while incorporating creative components like full image backgrounds or different fonts. These 2 magazines in particular have many images which spread across pages and use different fonts to tell what happened in certain events. Magazine #1 for example, has a more informative article, with more columns and 1 image spreading across both pages. In similar fashion, Magazine #2 has a picture which covers AND spreads across both pages. This magazine isn't as informative as it only has 1 column.

In conclusion, doing this blog helped me realize the format of a double page spread, and the variety of ways you can execute them correctly.