Front cover flat plan and rationale.

This is the flat plan that I had created for my college magazine, the reason I have used this is so that I had a good idea of what I wanted to place where and how I wanted my magazine front cover to look.
The reason that I have placed the masthead in the position it is in is so that the reader can clearly see it and it is visible and easy to see. I have placed the main image to the left so that I can use majority of the page to clearly show the main image. Plus I have the strap-lines overlapping on the right of the image to make the magazine hopefully flow smoothly. Also the barcode is placed at the bottom left as stereotypically that is where majority of barcodes on magazines are placed. The competition is placed by itself to stand out.