Music Magazine Contents Page

Below is my first version of the contents page, however simply by looking at my contents page against other professional version I realise I still need to make improvements to my contents page.

For my initial design I followed the house style I wanted to have with the same Algerian text for my title 'Respective Contents'. I also followed the planned house style of having the curve at the top and bottom of my page, despite being a different colour I really like what it brings to the page, in my opinion it brings the illusion of your eyes focusing in onto the page which I really like and it a bit different to other contents pages.

 

I created a black background white the white text showing the different stories which I carefully placed under different headings for example as shown above, News, Live and Features, I added this in order for reader to better navigate my magazine to the story they want to read. The page numbers are in red this is also to make it easy for the reader to find out where in the magazine that specific article is. Bigger stories I purposely placed on the feature section or in bigger text with a little bit of information about it such as the bottom right article 'Lunar Hop' for example.

 

However to improve I still think there is too much emptiness for a contents page and I am considering doing something with the background or added more text to the blank areas.

 

 

This brought me on to my second version at producing a contents page.

The solution I came up with in my second version to make it more full and give it a better look was to change the background to a full image to cover the whole on the page. I used a live shot of a band and related that to one of the main stories on the right hand side, in this case 'Lunar Hop'. This creates a much more interactive contents page and give the feel that you are actually watching the band play.

Because of the background colour change the only other adjustment I made was adding a black stroke to the categories, and the rest of the text on my magazine and this was just to make the text more readable for the reader.

The image I used of the band I edited on Photoshop and instantly made it black and white to match the front cover image and my magazine colour scheme which really has started to bring a house style to my magazine a lot more.

I then wanted the try using another house style feature that I used on my double page spread, this led me onto my third and final version of the contents page.

The small addition I added to this version was to place the faded title of my magazine across the page but underneath the text which also appears on the double page spread. Although it is only a small feature I really like it as it continues the house style.


My third version as above is my final piece and I think it follows conventions of traditional magazines but I like how I have managed to make it look a bit different which again is what my magazine and music genre is all about whilst continuing to keep as much of a professional look as possible.

After Receiving Feedback

 

 

 

After receiving feedback on my contents page there was only one small improvement I had to make. Now this improvement was not a major design flaw, but simply just a wrong choice of text. Under the 'Lunar Hop' section the text does not match the rest of my page or house style.