Flat Plans

Flat Plans (left hand page)

Below - (right hand page) After looking at several examples from other magazines such as Q and Mojo, Idecided my double page spread will contain one photo of the artist featured. This will be on the right hand page. On the left hand page will be some of an article and on the right hand page next to the photograph will be the other half of the article.

The article I am going to write will be an interview and set out in questions and answers and it will seem to continue on to the next pages of my magazine. On the first page of my doublepage spread, I have the name of the person being interviewed in big font which is the same as my mast head, and a small description of what the article is, this is so that it is clear who and what the article is about. Along the bottom of both pages there will be a small area for the page number, date and name of my magazine. This is so the readers know which page they are on and find it easy to access pages they want by looking at the contents page.

The background of my article will be dark grey and I will stick the my continuing colour scheme of white, blacks and red.

Cover 1

Cover 2When drawing my flat plans, I decided to draw 2 ideas for my magazine cover. For my first cover I used a duet band singing, for my second I used a solo artist. I also changed the mast head by making it 3D on the first cover and 2D on the second.

Out of the two flat plans I created for the cover of my magazine, I had decided to use Cover 2 because I feel it looked better and would appeal more to my target audience as it appears more sophisticated than the other cover.

I will be using fonts that are attractive and appealing such as an old typewriter font on my main sells and I have included features such as the date, issue number, bar code and price on the cover of my magazine as this is needed for the reader to know when purchasing.

In my final magazine the main image on my cover didn't show a guitar as I couldn't get the prop for the photoshoot and I changed my artist's name from Mozzy to Noah, I felt this would appeal to my target audience more as Mozzy seemed quite immature and child-like. I also made the price smaller and I didn't put it in a bubble, this was to make my magazine appear more sophisticated and interest my target audience more.

Contents
The contents of my magazine will contain the same masthead that is on the cover of magazine. This is to produce familiarity to the readers as my masthead will be same every issue as the title becomes one of the most familiar things in a magazine or any kind of product.

I have two pictures on my contents and they will have numbers on to show which page they are on in the magazine.

There are 3 sections on my contents page: Features, Every month and Shuffle for you. The features will be things that are unique to this issue of my magazine. Every month will be the things that are in every issue of my magazine and Shuffle for you will be things such as songs the readers might like to download and movie reviews. I got this idea from looking at contents pages from magazines with a similiar target audience to mine such as Q and Mojo.

The fonts used will be pretty basic for the contents information but the headings such as Features will be in a font that is featured on my cover, again to produce familiarity to the readers and target audience. I will also include the issue number and date on my contents page.

I will stick to a simple colour scheme of red white and black, this will appeal to my target audience as it is not too visually busy or colourful.

Here is a labelled copy of my front cover flat plan.

For my final magazine contents page, I changed the position of the photos and added a "this months acts" box which showed a list of featured artists mentioned in my magazine. This is because when creating my magazine on InDesign I felt it looked much better and would allure my target audience more because they would want to know more of what was in the magazine. I also changed the smaller picture of 3 people to pictures of tickets so that it would make the featuring competition more important and visible. I also changed "features" to "this month" to make my magazine more unique.