Drafting and planning

I like this double page spread of Nicki Minaj:

She looks very prominent and prime over the two pages. This inverses the stereotype of magazine's having a full picture on one page and text on the other page. 

I want to create a magazine that inverses usual stereotypes and is one of a kind. I also want to use a colour scheme that is different to this and includes the primary house colours e.g. red, yellow, green and blue. This DPS shows that I need to include a lot of text and a full article. I'll need to read different articles of different magazine's to see what sort of stories are included in music magazine's. I'll be able to pick up on language choices and positioning and artist attitudes. 

I could also look at this for different interpretations i.e. this DPS shows that the heading is very important and needs to be big and contrasting with the background. The artist looks very mysterious in contradiction to the Nicki Minaj DPS as she looks very intimidating. This DPS below shows that most articles are laid out in columns and the artist can cover the whole of one page:

From this I have learned that on my DPS the artist image needs to be big, I need to have a contrasting colour font to the background, my artist can make a certain impression by their facial expression, the heading needs to be huge and enticing and the article needs to look busy.
I will take all of the above into account when constructing my own DPS.