Contents page screen grab

I chose a purple back ground colour for my contents page because it was a popular colour when I got given my audience questionnaires back from my target audience. The colour stands out and it shows I have used a variety of colours that will attract pop music fans as I haven’t used purple as a main colour on the front cover or the double page spread.

Here I have added the Contents title and a solid colour background behind the writing. The solid colour back ground is the same colour as the double page spread back ground colour because I wanted to link them together. It was also one of my main colours that was on the colour scheme and I think it really stands out on the purple background.

This screen grab shows that I have added the Regular and Feature headings onto the contents page. I have chosen a black solid background colour for the strips and then the same pink colour as the contents back ground strip for the wording to again, link them all together and show that they relate to each other. I have kept the same font for the headings and made sure that they had equal amounts of space around them within the boxes.

I now added the regular content and the feature content to my work. The page numbers that I have out in are the same pink colour to keep it matching and connected. I then kept the content writing in black so that it was easy to see on the purple background and it was the opposite of the regular and feature titles.

The images used were all taken by myself and I had to rearrange the pictures on the contents page until I was happy with the layout. I then added a different range of colours as a frame around the images to make them stand out and look appropriate for a pop music magazine. I had to zoom in and place the images next to each other accurately with having the coloured frames there.

Next I included the page numbers on the images and made them stand out by enlarging them and making them stand out with a bright yellow colour. I then also made sure they were all accurate by leaving the same amount of space around the numbers in the picture boxes. At first I had the numbers as different colours but I decided the page looked better with them all the same colour so I decided to keep the colour that stands out the most which was the yellow.

I then added the date in a white colour and put it under the contents title where it can clearly be seen and stand out on the pink back ground colour. It’s also more professional to have the date around the top of the page.

Finally, the last thing I added to the contents page was a JPEG image of my front cover, I placed the image of the front cover usually where the magazine title would go so I have used this image in replacement of the title and placed it in the top left hand corner where it’s usually the first place that people look at.