Flat plans

This is the flat plan of my front page, I didn't add colour to the plan because I wanted to experiment with different colours that I could use and that would look best with the picture that I selected for my front page. The flat plan made the process of constructing the front page easier because it meant that I already knew what I was going to say and what writing I was going to put on the front page- this saved me time because it meant that the coverlines of the magazine were already planned.

This is the flat plan for my contents page, this has allowed me to know exactly what stories are going to be featured in my contents page which also saves me time because I don't have to stop and think about what I am going to write. In my flat plan there are only two columns, I changed this in my actual contents page to three columns, I did this because mainstream music magazines usually use 3 columns as opposed to 2; only two columns would mean that the writing would be too big for a standard page of a4.