Cover One for magazine

This is the first of my magazine covers for the student magazine designs. This is the more simpler of the two that i have created but it still has the proven right method of magazines partly because near on every magazine has a similar layout to this and i was thinking about making a slightly different design to make the magazine unique. Plus with the main story central image the i thought that the smaller news stories could surround it and overlap which gives a nice flowing look to the front of the magazine. plus as i found from my questionnaire research most people would prefer many images on the front as oppose to blocks of text which i suppose is fair because people will get attracted in by the images instead of standing there for a few minutes and reading the cover.