The Making of Flat Plans; Double Page Spread

The Making of Flat Plans; Contents Page

The Making of Flat Plans; Front Page

Introduction To Flatplans

I now would be creating and designing flatplans for my magazine publication, after conducting my research on magazine layouts and conventions I know would be carefully planning how to layout my magazine and would be considering how it would appeal to my targeted audience. Like most magazines I would be keeping consistent conventions on all my three pages such as page numbers, issue numbers and dates.

For the three flatplans front covers I would be following basic magazine conventions such as having the masthead at the top. I’ve also decided on having one main image and a main cover line based on this as this would catch the attention of my targeted audience would drag them in the story. I have considered the positioning other basic conventions such as the barcode, issue number, date and price as they are vital to creating a successful cover. Other aspects which I have considered is by covering my additional space by including conventions such as buttons, insert images, anchorage, freebies, slogans/logo’s as this would help to develop my cover and make it more attractive.

For my three contents pages I have followed conventions which would make a hip/pop magazines, these basic conventions include keeping the main ‘contents’ title at the top of the page for all the flatplans. I have used the title ‘Contents’ as this would straight away address to my audience would the page would consist of. One of the features I have included in all my three flatplans is a main image which relates to an article within the magazine, there would also be other insert images with anchorages which would be included which would attract my target audience giving them a taster on what is included in my magazine. Other conventional features would be included such as list of features, page numbers, insert images and also including my website which would attract my audience to discover more about the magazine.

For the three double page spread flat plans I would follow like all my other pages follow a conventional Hip/Pop magazine, one of the main conventions would be by keeping a main title of the double page spread at the top of the page for all the flatplans. Most double page spreads follow a main convention such as Central line/spine which is the middle of both the pages, I also would be including a main image which would relate to the article I would be writing about, page numbers, date, logo, issue number, insert images and also appealing quotes from artists which would appeal to my targeted audience. One main convention for Hip/Pop magazine is having a whole page based on Questions and Answers as my targeted audience prefers features like this and also this helps makes the double page article look busy.

iPhone Application

After considering how to make my magazine publication appeal out to my targeted audience, I thought about how my audience are aged between 14-25 and also part of the young generation as they mostly have great influence of technology in their lives, I found it beneficial to include a special iPhone application which would be available for users to download on their Apple devices as this application would include the magazine publication in electronic format and would allow the audience to browse through previous editions of the publication. This application would also my targeted audience to browse through ‘latest songs’, ‘latest interviews’ and also ‘exclusive concerts’ in which would appeal to my audience. As this idea should be able to attract and appeal more to my audience as my research would show below…


From 20 people, I would be asking two questions which would help me decide whether this idea would be beneficial for my magazine publication as this would tell me if this would attract my target audience.


1) How old are you ?

.14-16
.16-18
.18-20
.20-22
.22-25

In this graph you can see out of 20 people…
Three people were aged 14-16
Nine people were aged 16-18
Five people were aged 18-20
Two people were aged 20-22
And one person was aged 22-25


2) Which mobile phone do you own ?

. Blackberry
. iPhone
. Nokia
. HTC
. Samsung

In this graph you can see out of 20 mobile phones…
Five people have a Blackberry
Seven people have a iPhone
Four people have a Nokia
Three people have a HTC
And one person has a Samsung


After looking at my results a majority of people use an Apple iPhone and the ages of people I mostly interviewed were 16-18. By finding out the solutions to these two questions, my iPhone application would be based on trying to attract a young market along with my other targeted audience. As iPhones are revolutionary phones which are always connected to the internet so my audience could receive live notifications on news and any subject straight away on their device