The image to the left shows a first draft design for my music magazine’s contents page- Chart!I decided to resize the masthead and make it smaller, but keeping it in the top left hand corner of my contents page. This works well to maintain the house style and also works to emphasise which magazine this is the contents page for.I placed a border around the image to make it look a little bit more interesting and used the colour of my models top as the colour selector, but reduced the opacity slightly to make it less in your face and vibrant. I decided to make it easier for me, not only would I use the grid, but I also placed the red lines as an aid for where to place the text. I will remove these red lines before I finalise my contents page.

The design to the left shows my second design of my contents page for Chart! magazine. On this one I removed the page numbers to see how the design would look without them, before realising they were a necessity for people to find out where they could find this information and these pages. I added a colour box to the bottom right hand corner with text reading “The Wanted. FREE poster inside”. I decided to add a colour box to emphasise and highlight this free gift to my target audience and magazine buyers. I used the colour selector tool on Photoshop to pick out the colour from my models top to fill the colour box with. I filled it the same colour to maintain house style on my contents page.

The design to the left shows my third design for my music magazine’s contents page. On this one I have added the page numbers back in, making sure they are aligned with the rest of the text.

The screenshot to the left shows how I have been able to use the grid in Photoshop to align the text and photo. This grid has been really useful in designing the contents page as it has enabled me too keep all the writing aligned and so give an overall more professional feel to the contents page.On this design I also decided to remove the colour box around “The Wanted. FREE poster inside” however since removing it I realise this free gift does not stand out as much as I want it too. I also feel the colour box broke up the page and made it slightly more visually appealing.

This design led to me changing the background colour. I decided to change the background colour because not only did I think the white background was somewhat plain and boring, but I felt it was harsh on the readers eyes.I also feel the background colour emphasises the masthead and makes it much more obvious rather than it just blending into the background.The colour box also seems less obvious and seems to fit in better with the coloured background, making it look slightly less out of place.

On this design I decided to remove the red guide lines I had given myself to see how the contents page worked without them and how obvious it was that my text was all aligned.

After looking at how I could maintain house style throughout my music magazine called Chart! I decided that I could improve the contents page dramatically by using the same font as I used on my front cover, as in previous designs I had used the same font I was using for my masthead. After realising this, I changed the font to the same one used on the front cover for the cover lines.

What font for what?a song for Jennifer – dafont.com for my masthead and text in the colour boxDecibel- dafont.com for my cover lines and contents page subtitlesHigh Tower Text- Photoshop for explanations of pages Futura Md BT- for the titles of the pages