To start off at the to have an image that spans the length of the left hand page. This will be the first thing the reader sees (assuming every reader starts at top left) so it is a good idea to make it visually interesting. This is not to say it can't be simple, just interesting. It is also used on this page as the background artwork. The image is just over one quarter of the size of the page vertically.
Just below this image is the title. The title is its own font, and is also the largest text on the page. Like the top image, it also spans the entire length of the page and summarises the content of the page in eight words. The title will be the first thing the viewer reads, so it important for it to have both relevance and interest ('the ocr a2 critical perspectives in media exam').
Succeeding this is a sub-title below. The sub-title is centralised and uses a much smaller font, however is still the second largest on the page. The sub-title is more specific than the title and carries more information. It is bold, and bigger than the standard text ('how to write about your production work'). There has been no punctuation used so far.
The page then splits off into three different columns. The far left uses a separate font to the rest of the article. It is a small intro paragraph that takes up about a quarter of the page's vertical and fills one (out of three) column of its horizontal. It talks briefly about the article and acts as a small synopsis. It is not part of the article itself. In this 'blurb', it states the authors name and his title in bold. The text is left justified.
Just below this column (still oriented to the left of the article) is an image. It breaks up what the audience is looking at quite nicely. The format of the image is different to that of the text, it causes the column it is in to appear wider than the others because the image 'bleeds' over the margin of the page to go right to the edge of the left hand side.
Below this there is a small page marker, it states the page, name of the magazine, date of issue and topic, in that order.
The article starts with a heading over each section and paragraph. The heading is smaller than the text of the sub-title but is in the same font. It lays out what the audience is to expect from the paragraph(s) following it. It, like the main bulk of text in the article is left justified, not centered etc.
The main text of the article is the smallest. Each paragraph starts with indent at the beginning of each paragraph, but there is no line-break. In the second section (after the second heading, which is still in the second column) the article uses dashes as bullet points in the first section, when talking about different ideas of things to put into their exam. Later on in the same section (still column two) the article used actual bullet points to illustrate what the candidate might be asked in the exam. When using the dashes to mark the list, each option was often multiple lines long. When using bullet points each line was only a few words long and none of them exceeded one line. Throughout the text, certain key words are highlighted to show their importance. This is used throughout the whole article.
Right Page:
In the next section (located in the third column, and spilling over onto the next page) the same technique is used when talking about how to prepare for the exam, each section (all of which are quite long) is marked with a number. Therefore using every single bullet point type marker there is in one article.
The right hand page of the two page spread is laid out much like the article section of the first page. It uses three columns and has the same style of headings and text. The page is almost entirely text. There is one point where the author uses bold writing to indicate the different sections of the exam writings.
At the end of the article there is a small box that gives information about Pete Fraser (the author), which is succeeded by a conclusive use of a similar image to the one that appears right at the very beginning of the article (top left of the first page).
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