Flatplan

These are my flat plans for my magazine. The page on the far left is the contents page and the page on the opposite is the front cover of my magazine. I chose the title (masthead) Student ID because it seemed relevent to students and would appeal to my target audience of ages ranging from 16-18. All students know and have a student ID card, this meant that the title would directly relate to students. The Front cover isn't cluttered with information as I didn't wish to make it to confusing, but instead I put a few key stories on the cover to lure the students in and get them to read through the magazine. I chose one main image as I felt that this would best appeal to the tartget audience and would ensure that the attention was drawn to the main image and not other unecessary images. I decided to go with sans serif fonts for the front cover and the contents page as I felt it would be more personal to the students and I didn't want it to feel too formal. The language that will be used on my magazine cover will not be overtly formal as I want to appeal to teenagers that are reading the magazine not only to find out about college gossip and news but also students that just want to relax and do some light reading.

I have also added in other details such as the issue number the date and the price. This is because details such as this can hugely alter the overall look of the magazine, for example a christmas issue would be different to a summer issue. I have layed the contents page out in a clear way with headings realting to the different types of articles. The reason i have done this is because i wanted to make it easy for students to find any specific articles they may be looking for. This is because there are times when they may be in a rush to get somewhere and don't want to have to flick through the entire magazine to find the article they were looking for. It also allows people to skip articles that don't interest them and only look at what they want to read resulting in a larger target audience as both male and female readers will be interested.