Plans For my Contents Page

Here is the plans for my contents page for my magazine. Please excuse my drawings, they look so stupid. Anyway, I wanted to think of a way in which I could lay out my contents page to fit in with my genre of music magazines.

The first thing which will appear on the page will be the heading 'Contents'. I am trying to keep the flow of the colours used on the front cover. I am going to write the title in the colour of pink, quite a dark pink.

The next thing are the headings to split the contents page up. I am going to have 5 different headings; features, news, reviews, style, competitions. The at the bottom right hand side of the page 'on the cover'. These headings will be written in black. This is to make is stand up and eye-catching towards the audience. I have then placed each of the texts over a pink rectangle. This will be the background for the headings.

Underneath each of the headings will be the stories which fit under these headings. I am going to get the font simple so that it makes them writing a lot easier to read. By sticking to the colour theme I am going to write the text in purple. Plus, it wouldn't clash with the other colours used. At the ends of each of the stories will be the page number to where the stories will appear in the magazine.

On the right hand side of the page will be pictures which would help annotate the stories used within the magazine. This would allow the audience to gain more insight into the magazine, see who is being written into the magazine and hopefully be even more interested and continue reading the magazine. I will try to place the pictures in all different ways to make it more interesting. I will then place a page number onto the photo too.

At the bottom of the page, next to the part where it tells us about whats on the cover, I am going to place a picture of the front cover. I have tilted the page towards the right so that it looks different and more interesting to the audience eyes. To the left of this picture I am going to place piece of writing about subscribing to the magazine. I will place the word 'subscribe' in bold pink writing so that the audience can see. The writing underneath could then say 'subscribe and be in with a chance to win a prize every week' or something like that. I am thinking about having the writing over something different. Using a photoshop tool I could place an area of stars at separate places on the page. This could help add some fun to the contents page.