Constructing my contents page

This is how I have constructed my AS media music magazine

Emily Rachel Leece

Flat plan• I have created a flat

plan on Photoshop the same as the one that I have drawn. By doing this I know where everything is going to go, speeding up the process as everything is already in its place I just have to go on to add the contents of the page.

CONTENTS• As I'm trying to

keep things simplistic I have decided to have the title as the page ‘contents’ in bold writing the same colour and style as the masthead. This makes it clear what this page is about.

Images

• All of the image added to this page were photographed by myself. I have kept them small so that they don’t take away too much attention from the contents sections and angled them slightly to make them feel less formal.

ADDING CONTENTS• I started adding my

contents to this page by using red text so that I was able to keep the contents within the boxes that I had previously added to help with the layout of the page.

• After adding the contents I started removing the black boxes so that my contents were simply on the white background of the page.

Layout change• I have slightly

altered the layout of the contents page. Instead of having the contents split into two columns I have put all the contents down the left hand side of the page. In addition to this I have put all the images down the right hand side of the page and started splitting them up using black lines.

CHANGES

• I have now decided to change the page title from ‘Contents’ to my masthead as this is a common convention in magazines.

CHANGES• I have made dramatic

changes to my contents page. I felt like the other layout didn’t fit into the style like my front cover and double page spread. Therefore I have photographed the records from the double page spread and used this as the header image for my contents page.

• As well as this I changed ‘inside this mag’ to ‘in this edition of THIRDSTUDIO’. I think this makes my contents page feel more professional than the previous layout.

Contents layout • I have now changed

the contents page number and story headlines from capital letters to lower case. As well as this I changed them from bold to regular. I think by doing this I have made my contents page feel more relaxed.

Small images and box

• To keep this contents page suitable for my target audience I have added a bright pop of colour behind my images that makes them stand out more. This bright colour is the same red as my page numbers.

Page numbers• As this magazine has an

‘edgy’ vibe I have decided that instead of having my page numbers in cirlce to have them in squares. Square also link into the rest of the magazine as they’re the same shape as the record covers.

• I have kept the page numbers the same colour as the main headline and used the same shape and colour on the page numbers for the small images.

The final contents page