Music Magazine: DPS Draft

I particularly like the image used on my double page spread, especially the way the muscial element, the microphone, is one of the main focuses of the image, much like my research. The image is placed over two thirds of the page, like my specific research instructed and I am pleased with this outcome. I like the title here, however, the 'the new rock and role' section of the title is too close to the 'Queen' section, creating conflict. I may have to reduce the size of the Q in the title to prevent this conflict. I need to make the pull quote bigger and increse the size of the quote marks. I may also change the pull quote font to Accord Light to match part of the title as I feel there is too much of the same font type which is making the page look too wordy.  I feel that the actual main body of the artcile is a success and I would keep this in my final piece. I do, however, need to change the layout of the blurb, just under the title, to make sure there is a clear definition between the main body of the article, the blurb and the title as they are all very close. The one main feature which I do not like is the border. I added this to try and incorperate more coloured features yet I feel this is not working and instead cuts the image. The distance between the border and the edge of the page also varies, suggesting careless design. I would remove the border over the image, maybe just placing half a border on the text side. To ensure there are more red coloured features I will increase the size of the right hand page number, as this will also ensure the page does not look as regimented.