Development and growth of my double page spread

While designing my Front cover, double page spread and contents I am using 'We Love Pop' magazine as inspiration and for ideas. After researching their magazine, I used some of their ideas, however changing them slightly to create my magazine with my style and target audience in mind. I did this to attempt to make the magazine as a whole look more professional and advanced. 

This is how I started my double page spread, it began simple as I was experimenting with colours and my layout. I tried using the colour dropper to replicated the colour of the balloons for the background of my text, and the font the colour of the other balloons. This created a co-ordinating pallette of colours which all worked together, which is almost always used in magazines. I didn't like the idea of having a white background so I plan to choose a colour or find a pattern of some sort.

After deciding on colours I chose a font, that was fun, informal but still readable. I tried to keep it quite simple but with contrasting colours to make it jump out. I focused the colours and font I used on my target audience. By using simple, girly colours sky blue and baby pink this tied in with the genre of the magazine too. One change I would have made would have deciding on a colour theme before taking my photos- then I could have co-ordinated my colours with the clothing or make up on my model. However I like that I made my backgound of the text the same colour as the background of my model.

This is my third attempt of my double page spread with my text and headlines complete. I have kept the colours quite simple- only using 2 colours in my text and a beige background colour which matches the background behind my model. I wish to pay a attention to detail in my final attempt such as spacing out the text slightly and making the title 'Lea! Welcome to my world!!' slightly bigger so it stands out more.

I have tried to focus around a few articles from other magazine by using their double page spreads for inspiration and ideas for my design and layout. After research I found very few articles in teenagers magazines continue over a double page spread. They often keep text to a minimal to keep it short and snappy.

Before I complete my magazine I plan to put 'Lea' in bigger font and put 'I'll always be the girl that worked in Tesco' quote in the same font as the rest of the magazine spread.