Planning for Contents Page

Planning for Contents Page

As seen in the third image, I recreated the same 'banner' type heading for the contents as seen on my front cover to create a sense of branding; it helps the text to stand out and I also re used this in my 'The Cover Story' section to make key selling parts of the magazine stand out, as seen in images 1 and 2. Also in this section on cover stories, I used a circle to again keep the eye interested and make important parts of the magazine stand out.

I also played with layering my fonts in the second contents page to again make selling points stand out. Often magazines have some type of competition in them to 'give back' to the reader so of course I  wanted to incorporate this feature in my magazine. 

In images 1 and 2 a "what's on trend" section can also be seen, again repeated in each issue to create the sense of branding and incorporating shapes to make this part of the page stand out. I also experimented with a different font here, as I found that I was using different sizes and italics of the same font which could bore the audience/reader.

In image 3, I played with layering two different images over each-other, as two images of the same person on a contents page is not a typical convention, nor necessary, for a magazine unless it is a special issue for someone like a celebrity. I experimented with the opacity of these images and I liked how it turned out as I did feel like it matched the aesthetic of my audience. However, I did not use this in my final products as I didn't really find a necessary time to do so. I felt like I had stronger images to use in my contents page and front cover-the image shown is of the back of a person which isn't really strong enough to be on the first two pages of a magazine, as much as I liked the result.

Images 1 and 2 are very similar to my final products, however I did have to make some changes before deeming them appropriate for my magazine. I had to make the text more compact as the text in images 1 and 2 does seem quite spaced out and not efficient. Another problem that I encountered was the colour scheme; in the images on those pages, I played with the hues of the images to change them and make them obviously different to the original image to make my product stand out from other magazines. I then would use the photoshop eyedropper tool to match the colours on my page to the hues in my images, which was the wrong way round to do this really. I ended up changing the colour scheme, as seen in my final products, to match the front cover to create consistency and branding in my products. I then changed the hue of the images featuring on the contents page to match that of the colour scheme I had edited to tie both issues of the magazines together and make them more aesthetically pleasing and correlated.