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To begin my design I decided that I would defiantly stay with the red and black house style. The ‘Blake’ had to be of exactly the same font as seen on the front cover. I used a border to keep the design tidy and straight edged.

The text under the title is very grabbing and its purpose is to pull the readers into the article. I wanted to make a bold statement and to make this clear I used language that was persuasive and direct. To highlight the fact that the text was important. I used bold and colour the word ‘one’ red. The sentence is open ended so that the reader wants to read on.

When I first started my interview I was going to display it in one block of text but my lecturer advised that it would look to much on the page and this would potentially put readers off the article. By using two or three columns I give the reader the illusion that the text isn't as long.

I wanted the question’s and answers to be clearly marked and I didn’t want it to be confusing for the reader. So instead of writing in names or ‘Question’ ‘Answer’ I coloured the text red for question and black for answer. Then I finally added tour dates at the bottom of the article for important information.

I found that when reading interviews in many other magazines they had a column for key quotes. This is a great way to highlight parts of the interview that may be of interest to the reader and this really makes the reader want to know why they made these comments. I wanted to keep in with Black white and Red theme so I coloured the text and just for a small extra I added colour to the speech marks.

The images are always a key part to any article especially interviews. I chose these images as the top one is definitely striking and the bottom one just to give the reader an image of the band. I re-sized the images and then re coloured them to keep in with the style of the front cover.

Finally just to add a few design touches I gave the text a splitter with the black lines separating the ‘key quotes’ and I then added a pictured splitter with a red to follow on from the red border.

Final Product