I have looked at each double page spread separately and compared them to find out about the most popular features.
By looking at these images I have learnt about how many images they tend to use, most (8/10) use one - three images I decided to stick too this range because the same person has featured on the front page and contents page already. Also putting too many images could take away the focus from the writing.
The next observation was the text and the way that it has been laid out. All the double page spreads use columns for their articles or interviews. Many of them use boxes or the columns are sectioned. Looking at the amount of columns that the magazines use I can see that all of them use 1-5 columns. This helps me to know that music magazines use from one to five columns across a double page spread. When creating my magazine I will have no more than five columns because otherwise it can look like too much information which could be time consuming. Having fewer than six could make the article or interview look more interesting and something for the reader to read for fun rather than an overload of information.
The last thing that I discovered from looking at the montage is the magazines have clearly enlarged a quote from the text. In some cases they have used a quote as the title of the article, this instantly pulls the reader in and intrigues them, as the text is enlarged it adds focus to the page.
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