Spread Feedback and Revisions

 Introduction. In the previous blogs, I researched how a spread for travel magazines s made. I then created my own spreads. After that, I chose the best spread for my magazine and edited elements to try and perfect it. In this blog, I will be showing more edits based on peer feedback.

Original.

Suggestions. One suggestion i received was to make the middle line blue. I did not do this as it is a guide for where the middle is, and is supposed to be separate. This does not necessarily fo against or follow conventions, but is a stylistic choice.

Conclusion/Final Spread. For the final spread, I decided to move the images to the left a bit. This is because it being on the right looked too compact and squished. I also moved the caption underneath. This is so that it stays under the image and shifted to the left a bit instead of only half of the caption being under the image. I decided to move the caption down one tick to not be as squished. I also decided to add a byline that has the author's name. This is to make my magazine look more professional and complete. It is also basic in most spreads. I put originally going to put the byline on top of the first paragraph, but it looked as it was part of the paragraph. Because of this, I put it under the title. I removed page number 3 because it is unnecessary. This follows the conventions of travel magazines because it is not supposed to look too squished. Doing this makes it look like there is too much information, and the audience will not want to read the magazine. Moving the caption down was for this same reason. I added a byline because although not every magazine has it, it is more professional to include. Removing the page number was also to look less squished, and was also a stylistic choice. There is no point of page number 3 if page number 4 is already there.

Final Spread: