Before I can officially start creating my brief, I need to do a little more practicing and planning. So far, I've been focusing mainly on just my cover page, which I admit I should probably move on, but I want to do a flat plan first to grant me some more confidence.
I created my flat plan on Canva. I know, I know, I should NOT use Canva, but this is just for the flat plan and not the actual product itself. Usually, flat plans are just a basic idea of where your masthead, pull quote, cover lines, barcode, dateline, price, and all your puffs, plugs and boxouts. However, I won't be able to visualize the placement for any of that until I have a basic idea of my cover image. So, I'm trying to get creative and recreate an idea of what I want the image to look like on Canva. I'm not sure how well that's going to turn out, but I'm going to give it a shot anyways.
So this is how the image turned out.... and yeah. I don't know, it's not too bad, but it's obviously not exactly accurate to what the actual image will look like. Now for the text.
Midway through adding the text, I realized that the mirror being white didn't make sense, so I added the same background. I'm definitely going to add more text when I get my original image, but for now I couldn't really think of anything. I think the biggest issue I'm going to have for the next week is definitely what articles and other elements I'm going to have in my magazine.
The next step is planning for my content page, which is going to be extremely difficult because I don't know what images to have, what articles I'm going to have, etc. But, I'm going to spend some time reflecting on that and maybe I'll get an idea in the next few days.
Thanks so much for tuning in, catch you later!
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