My Flat Plan...

While in the process of creating a magazine companies have to create a ‘Flat Plan’, this is a plan which shows every page which will be in the magazine. It needs to include everything from the back page to the main interview along with all posters and advertisements located in the magazine as well. By doing this I know what I have to include in my contents page and in what order everything has to go in.

To do this I had to read through some of the country magazines that I had purchased in the past. I also researched some of the articles that would be in country magazines. The website I used the most was through the Country Weekly website as it showed me all of the past covers for the magazine. I found out also that my genre magazine would include many interviews with some artists along with the latest albums which had been released.

Below is my own flat plan. As you can see I have included posters, advertisement, front and back covers, contents page and all articles which I am going to include in my contents page. The reason that I have placed the articles in this order is because the magazines that I was looking at were similar to this one and so I thought that it would be good order to place them in. As you can see I have placed colours for the advertisement and posters to show that there is a big difference between them and the other articles.