Designing The Layout For My Pages

Before I decide how I am going to create my mock ups first I am going to create a template that will help me decide where to put things. These will be quickly created pages only containing text and shapes,with no images, I will then approach one member of my focus group,different for each of the pages and will finalize the layout to then move onto the mock up which would hopefully save time. Front Cover-

Contents Page-

Double Page Spread

Focus Group Member- After being shown this layout I can see that the magazine is going to be laid out like other music magazines,or any magazine infact,however I am not certain that the final front page will look good because there is not much content on the page,and the fonts will have to be larger to fill the page. The contents page looks nice, and I can see that this is going to be filled up with different things,although I am suprised there is no special offers or adverts like many other magazines I read. The double page spread layout looks simple with the whole left page filled with a image and the right hand page filled with the columns etc, the boxes on the page gives a 3D effect however I think it will look better if circles were used.