Contents Page Colour Choices

For my contents page, I wanted to have a recurring theme of colour schemes from my front cover. To do this, I used the same pink that I'd used on my front cover in the masthead that I'd taken from my models lips, which is the colour below.

I then applied the colour to certain texts in my contents page, like headings for things that I wanted to stand out. For example, the picture below, an incentive to buy my magazine, I wanted to stand out too people, so I made that text a bolder colour instead of white, like the text below it.

I also made my page numbers this colour because I didn't want them to be bland and boring in just black or white, and I also feel that having the page numbers in this colour gives the section of my contents page that is probably the most important a way of standing out.

Double Page Spread Research

I created a Prezi when looking at research for my double page spread. This will help me in finding out what key features I should include in my own Double Page Spread.

Adding an Image

It was also important that I added an image to my contents page, which I did. This Prezi explains the process that I went through to add a picture to my contents page.

Finding a Font

I wanted my contents page to have a bold, recognizable font, because it is important that potential readers know that this is where they can look to find out who else is included in the magazine. I tried out a variety of different fonts:

This was the first font that I tried, which I liked because it was bold and blocky and similar to the font I'd used for my masthead. However, I then realized that it was important that I showed a variety of fonts, and so I couldn't use this font.

Then I tried this font:

 








I also tried this font, because again, it was very big and bold, but I thought it was too child-like and cartoon-ish for a music magazine, and so it wouldn't work.

So then I tried this font:

I liked this font, because it was different to the font that I used on my masthead, and it wasn't child-ish like the previous font that I tested. I decided that I wanted to use this font.

I then added some effects to the text to make it match my masthead a little more, including a little bit of a drop shadow and then made the text white and my mast head was completed:

Setting up a Masthead for my contents page (Construction Process)

I began by setting up a masthead on my layout on Photoshop, and have created  a Prezi explaining the process in which I made it.

Music Magazine Contents Page Layout/Images used/Fonts and Colour Schemes

This is my basic layout for my contents page. Although it is hard to see hear, I will be taking the pink colour used in the masthead at the top and my page numbers from the pink that I used on my front cover on the masthead. This is so that my colour schemes from my front cover can link in with my contents page. After analyzing other contents pages in the previous blog post, I realized that it will be important to use more than one type of font to show variety. I will also be using the font for my masthead from the masthead on my front cover:

and the font for "CONTENTS" and my section headlines (i.e. "NEWS", "REVIEWS") from the font that I used for my artist name on the front cover to create a link:

I will also be using two pictures on my context page, and whilst I still need to take one of the images, one of the images I will use will be the following:

This is an image that I took at a concert that I went to, and I will edit the picture and sharpen the edges and make the picture a bit clearer and more defined to make it look more appropriate on a contents page.

At the bottom of the page, I will also include "adverts" for my magazines social networking sites, to make the contents page look more porffesional.

Deconstruction of Two contents Pages

We then moved on to designing our contents pages. Too start with, I had to take 2 contents pages and compare them with each other, looking for key themes that they both had, or what they didn't have. In the first cover, there are a lot of images included. This is too show which other artists are featured in the magazine quickly, if you don't want to have to read the contents page and see who else is featured in the magazine from just a quick glance. Also, there is a limited colour scheme in the first contents page, with the classic black and white, as well as red and different shades of blue. However, when I looked at the magazine compared with it's front cover, I struggled to see a link between the colour scheme used on the front cover and the colour scheme used in the contents page. There is also an incentive to buy the magazine down in the bottom right corner, which is there to benefit the reader if they buy the magazine- a sort of "if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours", if you will. There are at least 3 different types of font used on the contents page, all of which taken from the front cover- this tells me that to show a link between the contents page and the front cover, I will need to use the same fonts that I included on my front cover.

On the second contents page, there is only one image. This tells the reader that the main feature of the magazine will be primarily based around this one person. However, it is not that effective for quickly seeing who else is featured in the magazine. There is a limited colour scheme on this contents page, it being red, black, white and the grey on his trousers. I can assume that the colour scheme is the same on the front cover as it is on the contents page. There are around two different types of font used on the contents page, which creates a contrast, and therefore I will need to include more than one type of font on my contents page, and after looking at the first contents page, I will have to link my fonts on the contents page to that of my front cover.