Flatplan

Looking at the results of my survey monkey questionnaire I decided to sketch a simple design of what my cover and contents page would look like before the actual production of my magazine.

Below is the flat plan of my cover page, I had looked at the results from my questionnaire from survey monkey and decided on the name Student View which I already had in mind, I have taken into consideration the common conventions such as a sizeable masthead which is clear and of relevance to the target audience, I have also taken into consideration of the common conventions such as the sweet spot, the top left of the magazine in which is primarily the attention of the magazine, excluding the main image. I had also looked at popular colours and disregarded any colours that are gender stereotypical or at least tried to balance it out in order to create a colour palette of blue, red and purple.

The contents page stuck the main design that I had decided on on the front page, I wanted a simple design and a recurring colour palette. I wanted more images of the target audience at the bottom of the contents page as without images the page overall would of looked far to formal. It was hard to determine fonts pre production as I did not know how the colours would look together and also what the images where going to look like exactly, whether a complicated font would contrast badly with the simple design of the magazine overall.

The flat plans gave me a good idea of what I wanted my magazine to look like and mainly helped me with the positioning, size and layout of the magazine as it is hard to determine how big something will be when working on a computer screen, compared to actually drawing it on A4 paper.