Front Cover, Flat Plan, Contents Page and DPS

I had a lesson today, so I have been working on all of the parts of my magazine. I have also made some changes to my flat plan, which have affected other parts of my magazine.

Front Cover

I only made one change to my front cover, and that was to change the name of the artist that is being interviewed at part of the regular features (each month there is a review of a new/unknown artist). After a quick Google search, I disovered that the artist that I had planned to name for this article (Soldiers of Christ) was already a band, therefore I couldn't use this name. Therefore, I have changed the name of the artist that is being interviewed from Soldiers of Christ to Pardon Received (which is a play on words of a line in the hymn To God Be The Glory). I Googled this name and found that it was not a real band already, and was therefore suitable for use.

Flat Plan

When I was looking at my contents page, I found that the length of some of the articles did not seem that realistic. Also, there were some articles that seemed rather close together, when in reality they would probably have an advert between them. Therefore, I made some changes to my flat plan in order to make a few of the articles longer and over more pages, and to move them around slightly so that they were broken up by adverts more.

I also added page numbers on my flat plan so it was easier to see the exact pages where articles began and ended and were adverts were.

Contents Page

The first thing that I did to my contents page was change the name of the artist interviewed from Soldiers of Christ to Pardon Received, to flow from the front cover.

I also changed the spaces between the titles (features, regulars, etc.) and the text boxes beneath them. This was because the gaps between them were different sizes, so I changed them so that they were as near to the same size as I could get them.

I changed the page numbers of the articles because of the flat plan. On my flat plan, I moved the Premier Radio Column to after the Worship Leader Advice column, therefore I had to change these around in the Regulars columns so that all the articles were still listed in chronological order.

The final thing that I did to my contents page was change the Reviews column, so that there is an album and a single of the month, and so that the text is more descriptive rather than just a list of albums and singles.

DPS

The only thing I did to my DPS was change the page number so that it fitted with the flat plan and the contents page.