Contents page process

Add contents, date and image• Using my mock up I used to fonts decided and added

them at the top. I didn’t use the magazine name as going back I feel like this is an unnecessary feature as there wasn’t much room. I made the date in italics to change the type face but still be able to use the same font to create variation.

• I originally wanted to use one picture on the contents page and make it quite large as through my research I found that in EDM magazines, large images are very popular. However, my target audience like variety and so I thought that having two pictures of two different artists would show this variety.

Add background image• To make sure my magazine isn’t plain I’m going to add a

background image with the colours black and blue so that it is consistent with the front cover colours. It adds to the house style and makes it more interesting. However, I am going to trial using plain blue or black as one solid colour is seen as very professional and my target audience likes hints of this within their magazines.

• I have changed the colour of my font to white so that you could read it and I also didn’t fill in the word ‘contents’ as I thought this looked very different on the page and it creates a lot of design onto the page.

The image

• I chose the patterned image as I wanted something dark to represent the darkness involved in clubs and parties. Also, this image has some light going across it and so I wanted to use this as it reflects the lights that would be used at festivals as they are normally lined like in the picture. It really links to the genre and so I thought this would be the most appropriate.

Festival image

• Here you can see the lined lights used which is what I wanted to show in my background image of the contents page.

Adding in the sections

• Initially I was going to have two sections but leave a gap at the top to place in an image of the front cover. However, there isn’t enough space to put all of the information for the sections in so I decided to fill up the gap I was going to use for the front cover image.

Adding page numbers to images

• The magazine that I have used for inspiration has page numbers going across the images in opaque boxes with the name of the article written next to it. I have taken this idea as it adds more to the contents page rather than having two sections. You can also visually see what the articles will be about.

Inspirational magazine My magazine

Add on information about the free CD

• Since there is a free CD given to the readers I am going to include information on it so that those who aren’t aware of the DJ producing the music can get a little bit of background on them. Also, it is a common feature in the MixMag magazines and so I thought it would be appropriate to include that in my own magazine.

Which one is better?

• I asked my target audience which one of the contents pages they preferred out of the previous two and they all said the one on the right. This is because the date is placed at the top and it’s much more cleaner than the one on the right. The date on the right looks like it might be a heading and so would cause a little bit of confusion at first and so the second one would be the best one to use.

Finally,

• I added in the cd cover on the bottom of the page and made sure that all of the sections were readable.

Here is the final piece: