This shows my contents page in progress, everything on this page utilised tools that I had already

touched upon, the Text Tool and the Rectangle Tool. I decided upon these colours because they are

very stereotypical to the genre and were colours I had seen in magazines such as Q, NME and

Kerrang, which are three examples of magazines I am trying to emulate.

This print screen shows that I have once again created the title using the same logo generator and

made sure that it fitted with the house style I am trying to create in my magazine (minus some

double page spreads where the theme of the article didn’t match the house style). This print screen

also shows some of the images I am including in the contents page. The images are of my brother

playing his drums. I chose these images because they are taken at an interesting, aesthetically

pleasing angle whilst still showing a lot of the subject.

This print screen shows the added text to the top of my contents page once again informing my

hypothetical readers of the issue number and the issue release month. These are conventions of

rock magazines (or any magazine in general for that matter) that I am trying to follow.

This is how you place an image into a document, you click on file and

then place and then locate the image.

This print screen shows an added rectangle created using the Rectangle Tool and an added image to

create a set of three images.

This print screen shows four auto shapes created that will separate the features in my contents page

so that they are organised and it is easy for my readers to locate exactly what they want to read. This

is another convention of magazines that I have noticed and wanted to emulate.

This shows my almost finished contents bar, with all of the page numbers and names of the

articles/bands featured in the articles mentioned. These were created with the Text Tool and the

only other thing left to include in the contents bar at the right is a small summary of the article.

This print screen shows my main image included into the magazine, I have cropped it so that one of

his legs pokes over the edge and one doesn’t. This helps make the image more engaging to the

audience and the entire page more aesthetically pleasing.

The main image also has two effects included. One of them is the cover overlay. I chose for a slight

red overlay on the main image as it would match the house style and be a subtle effect that adds a

sense of depth to the image.

I also included a drop shadow on the image to make it seem more realistic.

This shows the almost finished contents page. I have placed an editor’s message at the bottom of

the page so the readers can get a feel of how I was feeling when I produced the magazine. I used the

Rectangle Tool and the Text Tool as well as my own Image which I took of myself, by myself and

then uploaded to my computer and then to photoshop. I also included brief descriptions of each

article.

After later viewing the contents page I felt some changes were appropriate to make it look like

something more conventional and something that would be in theory more successful. I included

more images on the front cover to make the page more engaging, adding page number and a small

description for each and also removed the red background so the contents page is not too heavy on

the eye.