Drawing out the Front cover and Contents page of my initial magazine

During todays lesson I was tasked with the objective of making a rough sketch of the locations of the key concepts of a magazine for example the Mast Head.

We was told that our magazine would be the same length and width as an A4 piece of paper, now this became a slight problem as the magazines we have present with us aren't A4 structured. They had the same length as an A4 piece of paper how the width was much wider and vaster than that of the A4. So as i began to sit down and to compare the differences between the magazine and the A4 paper I began to take down key measurements from the magazine and try my best to transfer that onto the A4 piece of paper.
For example the length of space between the top end of the paper to the Mast head which was 3.4cm and the gap from the start of the Mast head proceeding on to the left end of the page which was much shorter than the top end.Once that was done I began to see and take down  the measurements of the  initial concepts that was present on the magazine front cover. Such as the difficulty that I had faced while using indesign which was getting the photo of the main lead over the mast head. Along with this I  began to allocate certain boxes along the magazine according to the photo present on the top left hand side which would be filled in with information that would be present on the inside of the magazine along with special features.
As you can see on the left here this is the finished product of the Mast head draft design that i was tasked with creating. It was difficult taking down certain measurements and putting it onto paper as the difference between actual physical magazines along with magazines that are just still images on the internet is that the magazines on the internet dont tell you very much about the actual magazine. For example how wide the magazine is or how long it is. So what I did to counter this problem was to enlarge the image on the screen until it was the same size as the A4 piece of paper and place the paper on the screen and trace through the paper the magazine that im looking at. By doing this I could foresee the intial lengths and widths of the concepts that are on the front cover of magazine pages that are on the internet.
Once this was done we had to move onto creating a contents page. I found that the contents page was much easier to draw out in draft than the front cover because even tho there is more detail in a contents page the front cover requires key skills with Ict to pull off such as getting images ontop of each other or having to types of typography contrasting with each other in the same centence. In conclusion I was able to finish the front cover but only needed one or two more blocks on the contents page that I created. This appeared to be a very easy task but in reality had alot more hidden depth to it that I didnt know was there at first before analysing the magazines terminology.