Flat plan of magazine

Before making a start on my magazine I first had to plan it out so I sketched my ideas on a piece of paper. However I first did some research on how other magazines are layed out. Taking ideas from the information I had researched I put it on to a paper and this is what I had came up with. All magazines have a masthead at the top visable for consumers to see when it is displayed on the shop racks.

Using media techniques such as masthead, strapline, coverlines I put them in the right places to make the magazine look like a magazine that could sell. Below the masthead is the date and issue number so consumers identify it is the latest issue. I decided my front cover to be bright and colourful which would engage the cosumers attention.

Again to start on my content page I planned it out. Contents page included images and page numbers, I first looked at other contents pages and thought of ideas of how I can make my content page look different and realistic. Dropping ideas on to paper guided me throughout producing it, it is always best to plan before going straight into producing the magazine. I loooked through magazine such as NME and The Source for ideas how a realistic magazine content page should look them combined with my own idea I came out with a rough sketch of how it should look like.

The double page spread took me a while to decide what I was going to include in it. In the end I decided to do an interview, this was common in the music magazines I was analysing allowing consumers to communicate with the artist however not physically but they are getting to know more.

I planned a layout of how I shoud produce my double page, the colours used would also be colourful to represent 'retro'.