Evaluation of planning

When thinking about the planning of a final edit of my magazine, I thought a lot about the type of audience my magazine was reaching out to, and would my magazine grab that type of reader's attention, instead of them looking somewhere else on the shelf. I looked at many magazine front covers that I liked (as shown on Foundation Portfolio blog) and used their ideas to create my magazine.
From the start of planning my magazine, I knew I wanted a large text box in the centre and top of my front cover, for the title and main article, and I wanted these two important parts of a front cover to be very noticable. This relfects on my finished magazine, using a bold font and large areas to write the text on my front over.
When planning my contents page, I was unsure on how much of the page I should use and what to include on the page, worrying if the content I included on my contents page would reflect and match upon the genre of my magazine. I researched into music magazines of the same sort of genre as mine, and found that this included a lot of what I have put on my contents page, filling it with various pictures relating to my articles, and keeping the same colour scheme of my magazine throughout the pages.
Finally planning my double page spread was the easiest for me to plan as I knew what I wanted to do since I started the foundation portfolio. I wanted to fill the page with a background that represented the main article, and pictures above the text, with the text featuring on the bottom half of both pages. This created an effect of which would make the reader look at the introduction of the article first, then the pictures, and then the text. I also filled the blank spots of the page with certain quotes that would catch the attention of the reader.