Draft of the Contents Page

Without researching and using my own knowledge I decided to produce my first draft of my contents page. with coming up with the cover lines, I could then come up with the main page headings to what my magazine will include. I decided to put the title to the left because when reading the magazine, this will be the first thing the reader sees. I made the title fairly large so this is very striking, and stands out the most on the page. I included a reasonably small image to the bottom of the page is this will be less noticeable. I then put the main information tat will be on the page, to the left and center. As this is all that the contents will tell you I think it is important to have it as the main area of the page. To improve on this design I may add the title of my magazine to the top so this advertises the name of my magazine. I may also adjust the position of the picture and maybe make it bigger so the contents is more visual to look at. I may add more design to the contents there isn't as much empty space. By researching previous magazine contents I may be able to produce a better version of this draft.

By researching and looking at previous contents pages from different types of magazines, I came up with an improved second draft that I will use for my magazine. I prefer this draft contents because the page is fairly full which makes the magazine more interesting and engaging. I placed the title of the magazine in the same place as the front covers title, I liked the positioning because it gave more room and structure to place the other things that will go on the magazine. I placed the contents in the same place but changed the colour black, to stand out more and made it smaller so it didn't over power the title. I placed the contents information in the same place but made it smaller so that it didn't take too much room up. This aloud space for a bigger picture and make the magazine cover look more visual. I then changed the page numbers so that the magazine appeared more realistic. I kept the positioning of the photograph the same, but made it bigger so that it took up more of the contents. I did this because from personal experiences when looking at a content, you don't need to look at it for a long time, if there's a photograph the viewer will tend to look at the contents for longer if there is an image on the front. Lastly I included a small yellow box, splash to include extra information that I could put in to draw the readers attention.