Drafting and Planning: Draft Layouts

I have started to draft my contents page and double page spread for my magazine.

I have chosen this layout as it can clearly show the contents of what is included within the magazine and can show relevant photographs that further show what is included. I have based this layout on NME's contents page as I think it is an effective contents page. I think it is an effective contents page as it's simplicity shows everything that a reader would need to see within the contents pages. When I actually come to make the contents page, I think I may scatter some images around the page instead of having them only around the side and the top because I think it would look less structured and more free. I want it to look free as a magazine should be fun and casual and not formal and structured, and that is the type of message I would like to give off to the reader.

From my research of double page spreads (1 & 2), I have observed how double page spreads are usually set out in a similar way to how I have drafted my own. I like the idea of having a large image on the left page because it showcases the artist that is being written about and can also help set out a house style for the article. By having a quote from the article enlarged in the middle of the article, it draws the reader into the article as they would like to know the context of the quote, so would pull them in.