Planning/Sketching Page Layouts

When planning/sketching the page layouts of my media product, I took many things into consideration such as following the specific style, images, font etc. When designing the layout of my contents page I decided to use abstract shapes and vibrant colours which represents the personality of the chosen audience for my magazine. When planning the page layout for my feature I browsed through several different music magazines to get a vague idea how feature layouts were displayed. I then went on to produce my own feature and here are some sketches how I planned for my original feature page to look like: