Contents Page First Draft

Blog 31

Hello Everyone,

            So in my last post I talked about my finished draft of my front cover, so today I am going to be talking about my finished draft of my contents page. The style model I used for my contents page is NME’s contents page. I really like the layout so I decided to make my own version of it.

 The title “in this issue” is two different fonts. I decided to make “Issue” a lot bolder as that is something NME does. Also I didn’t want the title to be “Contents” I don’t think it reflects my indie alternative genre and its very simple and often used so I decided to think of something else.

I have one main image in the centre of the page. This draws the reader to them, in a real magazine they would probably have a double page spread but I decided I didn’t want to do my  main article on a group so I’ve written it on “Lily Rose”  who is on my front cover.

I also have 6 other stories and images along the sides. The blocky square look makes the page look neat and ordered. I have chosen a mixture of in the studio and on location images as it makes the page look more exciting. If all the photos were in the studio it would just look the same. 

Each image has a small caption, within these captions there is a quote from the artist and a brief sentence suggesting what’s in the article.

At the bottom of the page there is a “Vinyl Review” section, these are lists of artists which would be reviewed within the magazine.

Finally in the bottom right corner there is a red outlined box that is a subscription advert.

I am going to be re-taking some of my images for my final cut.