Luckily, as I created my front cover and contents page before the double page spread, that meant that I could launch myself straight in to construction as I already had a general theme set in the back of my mind. I wanted to keep the colour palette simple again with the added attention grabbing aspect of a few areas of brighter colour (red). Saying this, I did still encounter problems and slight flaws in my mental designs. I had problems with the text because although I felt that it looked effective with varying opacity, stretching over the main image of yasmin glass, there was the practical aspect of some people therefore struggling to read the interview in places. This would obviously minimise my audience significantly to those with good eyesight, and so to avoid this issue, started to experiment with 'wrapping' the text around the images and altering the positioning of the images..
As you will be able to see in this photo peach, I finally address the problem of the text possibly being unreadable to some people by 'wrapping' it (as I mentioned) around the main image. Also, after obtaining many opinions from potential readers and friends, I decided to effectively switch the whole orientation of my double page layout. I did this because of the fact that we read from left to right, so my proposed layout means that hopefully the audience would first rest eyes on the 3 'snapshots' of Yasmin on the left, so they learn a little bit about her personality. Next, obviously they would continue to read the interview before finally allowing their eyes to end up resting on the main, larger image of Yasmin, as I felt that, that particular image of her sums up her created personality as a whole and would possibly leave readers wanting to know more about her and her music, creating mystery surrounding her.
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