Flat planning and pagination

Before you start finalising the design of your contents page, you need to have decided:
a) How many pages your magazine will have (Think about: price, frequency of publication, existing media etc.)
b) The types of contents your magazine will include (Think about: audience research findings, existing media)
b) The pagination of your magazine - the order in which you'll arrange your pages and why

What is a flat plan?

Link to a blank flat plan

Planning your magazine cover - linking your design to your brand

Once you have established a clear idea of your magazine's brand identity, how it fits in with existing media and how you plan to attract your target audience, you are ready to start planning.
Refer to this lesson and your analysis of Q and Kerrang! magazine to help you explain your planning and design decisions for your own music magazine

Research - Impact - Planning

• Some people are launching into their photography without having fully established a sense of their magazine’s brand identity or how they want to represent their artists in the magazine.

• It’s essential that you do this first, so that your findings inform your planning decisions and to ensure that you take the right sort of photographs in the first place!

• Think about it like a three-part process…

Refer to this lesson from 26/11/12 to ensure you understand the importance of linking your research and planning together and check that you are able to answer the first four questions in detail before proceeding!