Magazine Research

2 Page Spread

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This is used as a brief lead-in to a story, usually smaller than the headlines but bigger than body text, this helps give you a brief summery of what will go on in the main article.

White spaces, these are used in lots of magazines often regarded to show classiness.

Gutters are used simply just to show the space in between all of the text.

Body text, this is the actual article, other than the headlines, sub-headings captions ect..

The Body text is usually around sized font, this is because they can fit more on but it is a good size to read also.

This is the main image of this article, it shows the band that they are talking to, and maybe helps to show there personality's or peoples perceptions of them possibly.

This is called a pull quote and is used to pick out something important or funny that someone says, this is an interview and this is one of the answers Justin Hawkins gives to the interviewer.

This caption tells us who is in the picture, it is all of the band members and the location in which the photo was taken.

NME

The Kicker is giving us a brief introduction into what the 2 page spread is going to be about, this is about The prodigy recapturing their 90’s glory.

The heading just introduces the article, in this case it is called ‘I see a darkness’

This is a pull quote and is took out from the article that is on this 2 page spread, this grabs your attention and is probably one of the first things the reader reads, that’s why they use some of the most interesting things when using one of these.

This text wraps around the Pull quote making it wrap-around text.

This main image is on the right hand page, this image taking up one full page is quite popular as people can see the full picture well.

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