Draft Layout

I considered the way in which large music magazines (such as Kerrang)  structured their issues, and the layout they use. By doing so I could use some of their ideas as inspiration for the layout of my magazine. Once I did so, I sketched out a very rough example layout of what my magazine could look like. This sketch was both of an example cover, and example article page. The sketches would act as a size comparison, primarily. After drawing the sketches, I then added annotations of different features that were present. These annotations explained what each feature was, details of the feature (ie colour) and how it was effective or why it was present.

 I continued by creating a draft layout on publisher, based on these sketches. This layout didn't consist of any images. Instead it had boxes where I was planning on placing images and text in the finished magazine. The boxes were coloured accordingly, and by creating this draft layout I was able to ensure that the images and text of the finished magazine didn't overlap, and the layout looks tidy and structured overall.The feautres presented in the draft were all (commonly) used in magazines of the same genre; rock.


 

I also considered inital ideas for what would be on a rock magazine, for both the double page spread and the front cover page.

Front Cover:
Main image- Single person; solo upcoming artist, image should take up most of the page
Mast head- Large, grunge effect
Colour scheme- Black and white, some gray (background), yellow?
Plugs- Up to 3 different stories
Secondary images? would be much smaller
Coverline- subtle

Contents Page:
Colour scheme- consistent with colours, black, white, gray, some yellow?
Small images- refrers to the stories of the different pages
Title head- Similar style, grunge effect

Double Page:
One main image- positioned in the middle?
Text- Article topic; writing a song? Two columns?
Border?
Quotations- Bold, larger than the rest of the text
Same font used, consistency