Here are some examples of my planning design for the contents page and the front cover. The rough sketches based on the photographs I had already taken of the band, give me a clear view of what I would like my magazine to look like.

For my front cover; I used the potential to have just one of the band (the lead singer/guitarist) but I thought that as a band they would want to stay as one, so having a whole image of all of them would be best.
After deciding the image, I sketched a few ways I could place the title, the sale lines and bar-code. I positioned these all around the image to create a focus point to the boys either playing their instruments or standing together. At this point I also hadn't decided on a colour scheme or the actual sale lines so it was hard to imagine it. I also did not want there to be just a plan background and I had to prevent it from looking too child like.

The other image is a scanned in sketch of what I thought my contents page would look like. This was harder to visage as it would have more writing and the layout was more complicated. I immediately didn't like this, it looked too simple. The spacing of the layout was too ridged and I wanted it to fit to our genre of indie/rock and roll which would look better more relaxed and loose layout. I also included too many regulars and features, I could keep them to a minimum and keep the audience guessing what is inside. There is also no much space for more images, which would create a rather boring and dull contents page.