Flat plan

I took the music magazine 'NME' to see how the magazine is laid out. I looked at the front cover, the index and an article. I picked these pages as I believe they are defiantly pages that will feature in my magazine, so I could get inspiration on what I find.

This is my analysis of the flat plan on the front cover of 'NME' It shows the title and strapline on the top left. This is the most eye catching place for the title to be featured as it is the first place you look at, as if you are reading a book. There is a huge image which takes up the whole of the page, this is the image that goes along with the main article which has its title across the middle. The main image slightly overlaps the title and strapline and other sub articles overlap the main feature along the border of the front cover. These also feature images. There is also a barcode on the bottom right.

This is my analysis of the plat plan on the index page of 'NME'. Again it features the main article as a huge image at the centre of the page and the title at the top left. This is because they are the most important things. There is a small column featuring a band list on the left and also a box at the bottom of the page on how to subscribe. The actual index is on the right hand side of the page in a medium sized column which takes up about a third of the page. This features page numbers and articles categorised into sections of the magazine with images from the main articles within those sections.

This is an article from 'NME' which I chose to analyse. There is a huge image that represents the article which takes up nearly half of the page on the top. This is eye catching and draws you to the article. There is then the title of the article featured underneath that in bold font. At the bottom of the page there are four columns of text, a page number and the date.

This is the quick flat plan of my front cover. I will have a dark background with my strap line running across the top. My title will be on a black box background with gold text with my chosen font. The main image will be of my solo artist. It will overlap the title slightly and over articles will be slightly faded in the back ground.

I have analysed a few magazines to look at how the magazine is laid out as a whole. I looked at where certain key pages are going to go and what articles will go where. I made a simple 36 page flat plan of my whole magazine including articles and where advert spaces are (pagination).