Flat Plans

These are my flat plans for my magazine.
I decided to use a standard setup of my magazine (headline, dominant picture, extra information etc) to keep a familiar face to my magazine, and so readers won't be intimidated by it. Readers can get put off reading something that seems different. For my headline (Rise Against) I put it at a slant to get a rebellious look to the magazine. This relates to my target audience and genre of the magazine, for rock music and the people who listen to it are often associated with the word 'rebellious'. I tried to put something everywhere to show the reader that there's a lot inside the magazine to read and enjoy.
For my contents page I kept it plain and simple, but interesting to look at. I didn't want readers to get confused on page numbers or featured artists in the magazine. Furthermore, my target audience of lower/middle class, would easily get confused so I took this into account.
My double page spread features lots of pictures. Readers often skip through pages and stop at a page that seems interesting to read. I used lots of pictures with bright colours for attraction, and I kept the text copy-light for my target audience of lower/middle class won't want to read much. From this I decided to split my page into 3rds. 1rd reading, and 2rds pictures. I gathered my target audience would prefer to look at more than read more so I took this into account.