Planning!! - Mock up pages

Mock up pages of my magazine!!


In order to give me a more clearly direction in how to make my magazine cover, contents page and article look i need to create  hand drawn mock up pages. Firstly i need to draw a mock up main cover and in this i plan on having just one main image of my artist in the centre in a very traditional pose for a young male as he will be leaning against a tree with one leg up against in as shown below.

As seen on many covers before i am going to have the top of his head slightly overlapping the main header of my magazine and this will not only look more modernised but show off my editing skills. I want my cover to look appealing and yet simple so therefore, i am going to keep the contents along with my feature article on the left hand side at the bottom in a simple paragraph based format. The web address which needs to be present on a magazine cover will be at the bottom so as the reader reads through the contents of the magazine the next thing they will see is the website which is also good advertising. Finally the bar code i feel as though i want it in the bottom right hand side as that side looked very empty and i want this bar code to be vertical which is now a days conventional of a magazine.


The next mock up is of my contents page.

Again i want to keep my contents page very simple and yet still affective and therefore, i just want to have one image on it in the bottom left hand corner of of my second artist. Following the colour scheme of my magazine i want to make a black margin the same size in width as my image in the bottom left hand corner but this margin will go straight to the top of the page. I want the title 'contents' to be at the top of the page as conventional and then underneath the header right to the bottom of the page the numbered contents of the magazine. 


The Final mock up is of my main article.

I am aware that for my project there need to be a minimum of four original images within the whole project that is why i am going to add three images in my main article of my main artist. The fair image on the right i am going to have landscape so i can have some text underneath ot which follows a similar pattern to other magazines. The two images on the left hand side i am going to have portrait so they only take up one column and leave room for the heading which i am keeping at the top next to the first image in the column so it is easily visible. I am keeping the layout of all my pages very simple to keep focus on my images and text and so the colour scheme would appeal more.