Codes and Conventions of a Double Page Spread

• Larger image covering full page - sometimes bleeds between pages (links two pages together).
• Drop capitals - show reader where to start.
• Standfirst introduces the article and is positioned under the headline. Contains journaslist's name and credits the photographer.
• Other techniques: bold text, slightly bigger typesize, capitals for the first few words.
• Quotes are taken out of the article and enlarged somewhere on the pages, this can be a form of seperating blocks of text. Also, they can be placed in the headline, on the picture or in the standfirst.
• Laid out in columns, always 2 to 4. It is only occasionally when it is set out in 2 columns.
• Simple colour scheme (kept to a minimum).
• Headline of the article.
• Name of the artist who the article is about.
• If the article is an interview, photograph is a studio photo.
• Sometime the picure is across the whole DPS with all text on the picture.
• Headline sometimes uses stylised fonts.
• Used to draw the reader in, but don't state what the article is about.
• By line - who wrote the article/photographer's credit.
• Strapline at the top - subject matter of the article.
• The article is usually written informally and the personlity of the journalist comes through.