Original Magazine (Planning)- Initial Ideas for my Front Cover, Contents Page and Double-Page Spread

Front Cover and Contents Page draft

For my Initial Ideas I have created a draft copy of my Front Cover, my Contents Page and my Double Page Spread. I have tried to make it as realistic as I can by adding things  pooplike selling points a bar code, this seems to work quite nicely as so far it's looking very good.

Below are the designs I came up with...



Here is my Front Cover and Contents Page draft

Front Cover

My Front cover is relatively simple or I have tried to make like that at least, as it involves the main image to by my chosen pop star surrounded by othe rcomponents I have put in to make it look like a real magazine. To try and make it look more realistic I have put a selling point at the top left that can either be to try and sell something or it can advertise something inside the magazine. Around the main image I am going to put some headings that can tell people what they can find inside the magazine plus made up headings that can fill up excess space.The main Heading is going to be placed at a slant at the top of the page, this is primarily for decoration and it looks a lot better then if I just put it landscape at the top.

Contents Page

The Contents Page is going to tell people what is going to be in my magazine as well as some made up things that are just their for effect and decoration. The Main Heading is at a slant just like the Front Cover as part of my house style. I have got all the writing and page numbers at the bottom in three colums depending on how space I am going to have. The Main story is going to be a Double Page Spread of my top story which is going to be about my chosen pop artist.

Double Page Spread Draft

Here is my Double page Spread draft



Double Page Spread (Main Story)

 

At the top of the left hand page is where I am going to place the main heading and underneath in three colums is where the writing and information is going to go. On this double page spread I am going to have...

 

- An intro into what the page is all about

- A question and answer colum

- My life which is a story about my pop artist (This will last for the remainder of the double page spread unless I extend the question and answer section)

 

I am also going to place some image about the page where they look best and fit in well with the rest of the page. So far I am going to place an image at the start for the introduction and then one at the start of My Life, I am not sure whether to add an image of two people or just one in the middle of the My Life colum.