Conventions of a double-page spread

Colour scheme

The colour scheme for double page spreads are normally only a few different colours, like in this example the colours are; black, white, yellow and white. There will always be a particular colour scheme in each double page spread. It could sometimes even relate to the particular artist, for example Wiz Khalifa has a song called 'Black and yellow' and these are colours used.

Main image

The main image in a double page spread is always a large photo of a music artist and is located either on half of either the left or right like in this example or goes across the whole double page. It is often an iconic figure to the particular music genre their magazine portrays, for example this is Vibe magazine which is a hip hop genre magazine and they have use Wiz Khalifa who is an iconic figure as he is a rapper but does songs with hip hop artists. 

Headline

The headline is the biggest text on the screen and is usually a quote from the interview below, but in this particular example the headline is 'WK'.

Stand first

This is the bit above the article and is the artist who is in the article, because if the reader doesn't know who he is reading about then it will be pointless so they might need to inform people who don't know the particular artist. 

Quote  

There is often a quote used from the interview on the page and it is sometimes used as the headline, this is to entice the reader into reading the full interview because the short quote is interesting and intrigues the audience into reading the article, but unfortunately it is not in this particular example.

The text

The text is always 11pt in a double page spread and is in 2-4 columns, this is to make it look neat and not all over the page. The page number, magazine name and text throughout is normally in the same font and the text is sometimes related to the genre of the magazine.