Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Flatplans & Rationale

Flat Plans:




These flat plans give you a rough idea on what the front cover, contents page and double page spread of my magazine will look.


Rationale:

Front Cover:

For my front cover I am going put my main image filling up the entire page, to show that this is the main focus of the issue - then on the right side of the second third of the page will be the main cover line explaining what the main article will be about. The puff will be in the bottom left corner, taking up most of the bottom third of the page to make sure that people read it and consider entering the competition. 

I will put some of the cover lines on the top left third of the page, so you can read them although they aren't taking up too much space. The essential information and the bar code will be in the very bottom right corner, so the bar code is easily accessible to the cashier, although isn't taking too much attention away from the rest of the cover.

Contents Page:

The magazine logo will be in the top left hand corner of the page, and the word 'contents' will be in the right hand corner. The colour of the title will be a medium-dark shade of pink to fit with the colour scheme throughout the rest of the magazine, and will attract my targeted audience.

The page number will be positioned in the bottom right corner of the page as that is the place as that is the place people tend to look if they want to know the number. Also, the website of the magazine will be in the bottom left corner of every page, just in case someone wanted to know the address but wasn't sure where to find it.

All subheadings will be listed down the right side, and will probably be put into categories such as 'review's and 'interviews' so if a reader wanted to find specific article, they can just skim read all the category names instead of looking at every single subheading. Under each subheading, there will be the page number and a small summary of what the article is about. 

The main article will be mentioned of the top left side of the page, with a large image relating the the article, a larger summary and the page number. Finally, on the bottom left of the page there will be a small note from the editor of the magazine talking about the content of the issue.

Double Page Spread:

For the main image, I will probably having it fill the entire first page to show that it is the focus of the article. However, I will remove the background of the main image, then replace it with a pattern that stretches over the two pages. 

Filling the entire second page will be the actual body of text; leaving just enough space for the page number, the photo and text credit and the magazine logo.



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