Music Magazine: Flat Plans

These are my flat plans for my music magazine with some annotations on the conventions I will include on the pages. I chose to draw out my flat plans as I felt that it was easier for me to visualise through drawing. By doing this, it also allowed me to explore more in depth about what I wished to have on my pages as it was in front of me and not on a screen. 

This is the flat plan for my front cover, when designing it, I ensured that I had a variety of conventions that would definitely be on the front page. I am aware that flat plans are a guideline only however, I do what I can to stick to them as close as possible. Discovering other music magazines also influenced my decisions on the layout as I often found better designs. 

When drawing out my contents page, I wished for the photo to be large but not too big so that it is overwhelming. With my bulletins that showed what's inside the magazine, I added a short sentence introducing what's included on that page. I wished for the audience to focus on this. Moreover, I added the magazine website on the top right hand corner so that the reader is influence to look on the magazine website.

My double page spread will have a more casual, easy read outlook. From analysing other double page spreads, I have decided to have the picture of the artist on one side of the page looking towards the story. I have found that pull quotations from the interview will be used to divide paragraphs and hock and audience into reading more. As well as this, smaller boxes were found on the spread with added extras, this will be considered for my work. The name of the artist will be printed over the story as the headline as it is continuous from the main cover line.


I physically drew out all of my flat plans and didn't digitally draw them as I believe it is easier to visualise what you wish to have through drawing.