Flat plan for my magazine

This is the flat plan for my magazine front cover. It is simile to some of the other designs I did as preliminary tasks before this one, but that design has worked fairly well so far, it as managed to get the photo in without blocking anything important, for example having the masthead over someones face, and it has looked fairly good one things like the Javis Cocker magazine front cover. The main image will most likely take up the whole page.

The text one it are in different sizes to show which is the most important information and to get the reader to see things before other things.

It has everything it needs including a barcode in the bottom right corner and the date and price in the top right corner.





This is the flat plan for my contents page. Somewhat similar to the one i made for the college besides the layout of the images.

Like the preliminary task it has bigger and smaller pictures to make  sure the reader is drawn to parts of it. It also has the title and images justified to the right of the page, however I moved the main image from the bottom of the page to the top right corner as i thought this looked better and would be better for making the reader see tat first as not only would it be bigger but people read from top to bottom so they should be looking there first anyway.

I also added a part for advertising things like online subscriptions for the magazine as a lot of magazines use that now.





Finally this is my flat plan for my double page spread. To make it look better and more eye catching I wanted to have either the main image in the corner of the first page taking up most of it, or the main image actually as the back ground for the entire two pages. This would be done by having the person stand a lot more to the left of the photo while the right side has less in it and is pretty much one colour, like black or dark colours.

It is important that the right side is basically one colour as this will be the side the text for the article goes on, if it is different colours it will be hard to find a colour for the text that is visible on the background of the photo, for example if the image was dark colours I'd use white text to contrast it and make sure the text was clearly visible.

Rationale Questions:

Colour scheme for magazine:

I do not know my colour scheme for my magazine yet as I need to match the colour scheme with the main photo. I am unsure what to use as my main photo right now and I am unsure what to use as my main photo right now.

When I choose my main photo I will take a look at the colours in the photo and decide what colours to use as my main colour scheme.

A good idea for my magazine would be to use a contrast of black/white or dark/light as this means it’s easy to make the text stand out from the images and can also look very professional.

Image Usage:

The front cover image will probably have one person on it, maybe more, and will be a mid-shot. It will take up the whole front cover with the masthead, sell lines and other things over the image it’s self in a way that makes the page look more interesting but doesn’t hide any of the needed parts of the image.

The main image for the double page spread will be of the same person or people on the front cover and will fill up most or the entire first page on the double page spread. It might be a interesting idea to take an image which covers the whole two pages but the page where the article needs to go unimportant parts of the image (for example if the image was of a person on a stage, the image would be of the person more to the left and the rest of the stage or other things on the right).

The contents page will use and image of the person on the front cover as the main image, this will be larger than the rest as shown on the flat plan for my contents page. The rest will be of other people as musicians or bands to show what would be in the rest of the magazine.

All the images I use on my magazine will be related to the rock genre of music.

Text/language Usage:

The language I will use in my magazine will be somewhat in between formal and not. This is so it can still sound like a magazine and like it’s talking personally to the reader, but also can be informative about what it’s about. Also this will make it easier to write, as I don’t tend to use a great deal of slang terms usually. It won’t be made to sound intelligent and clever using very formal language and long words, however it also won’t be very slang and informal. 

Layout and Font:

For things like the masthead, titles and sell lines I will use fonts like IMPACT in block capitals as this will stand out and make sure it’s the first thing the readers see. However I may look online to try and find some more interesting fonts that are textured, this would make the fonts look more interesting and professional. Generally the font will have to be bold and block capitals most likely. I will have to use different sizes of font for different things on my magazine, for example the mast head will be larger than the sell lines.

For things like the font in the article I will use fonts like Calibri as this is a simple font, which just seems like plain, normal text however it is also very easy to understand, including in very small sizes.

It might be interesting to use a diagonal title on my double page spread to create an “energetic layout” this might look good and be a more unique idea however I think I would prefer to use a straight title as this would still look professional and good depending how I do it and it would be easier to control the layout and make it look more organised.

A lot of the texts I used will be over lapping the images, as this will help the cover look interesting and better.