Flat plan for my front cover

This is my flat plan and although it has a lot of white space I have written down what I want to go where. In the top right of the page I have got a competition I put that there because the first thing that a reader sees is the top right of the page and if a reader sees something where they can win prizes they automatically become interested because they can get something out of it.

In the big blank space in the centre will be a picture of the hay lands 6th form building and post 16 students standing in front of it, I think that is a good idea because if it is first issue of a 6th form magazine people are going to want to see the 6th form facility and the people who go. There will also be a headline above the picture.

In the bottom to sections there will be two separate stories so the reader will hopefully find one that they are interested in, I think this is a good idea because if we feature more than more story people will be more interested because instead of getting one good good story there getting to.