Flat Plans

My flat plans fit into common conventions of magazines with the same genre because I used inspiration from magazines with the same target audience. Aspects like the masthead of the page being 1/8th of the page, the layout being simple but layered, the writing conveying a clear hierarchy and the barcode. The simplicity and conventional look may not support Hall's 1904 theory that youths are rebellious or Hebdige's 1988 theory that youths are fun and youths are troublemakers but it does fit in with the stylish connotations that is related to the stereotype that Indie/Alternative music listeners are stylish. The flat plans I tried all look very good and are of a style that I think would be acceptable to sell to the target audience, I chose mine using a SurveyMonkey survey and asking several questions to my classmates to pick the best looking plan. My whole class completed the survey and these were the results.
My results show that cover number 1 was the best laid out and was the cover that people liked the most. Cover 3 came in second. The first question I asked was about the genre of music each person listened to, I can relate the results I get to the genres, and the results showed that the majority (4/12) listened to the genre I was using in my magazine.








 My Contents pages are also very conventional as I followed conventions from other magazine's pages that I had seen. The results clearly show that design number three was most popular and the majority picked it as the best layout and their favourite page design.

 I was more experimental with my feature article layout designs because I found as I was analysing other magazines that each one had a uniqueness and wasn't fully conventional. I incorporated this into my designs by giving each one uniqueness and some unconventional spots to link with Hebdige's 1988 theory that 'Youths are troublemakers and fun'.  The results showed that the second design was most popular.