Making my Contents Page + Screenshots

These are the initial stage of the creation of my contents page. This is the photo I decided to work with, the reason behind this is that I think it is in contrast to the world today, that most 'rock stars' are all about fame and money, and I think the blander colours and meaning behind this picture gives the magazine a more rural look. I also decided to enhance the picture with the insertion of light in the top left-hand corner of the page - I feel this brings out a lighter side to the world, uncovering the roots of the Rock stars within, getting the reader thinking and intrigued in the magazine; and to what is inside. The picture, as earlier stated, follows a very bland colour scheme, however I feel this is necessary in a background picture, as to not draw attention from the main features of the contents page.

At this stage of the creation of my contents page, I inserted two promo's to the bottom right hand corner of the page. I also touched up these pictures by adding a graphic style 'horizontally creased' - using photo-shop. As the pictures themselves, without the enhancement, were not as fitting to the style of the magazine. I also cropped the promos down before putting them on the page, this was because I did not think that the flat edges, and cutting corners of the magazines fit with the rough exterior of the background image. The promos are explained in later stories on the contents page - both of which are related to the relevant pages to which you can find the information within the magazine.

At this stage of the creation of my contents page, I inserted the main image. It is that of James Leatherbarrow - the lead singer of 'Death of an Artist'. I did this as they are the main antagonist within my magazine, with most of the cover stories, along with the main article, revolving around them. I cropped the picture out from a previous live picture I acquired at one of their live gigs - and applied a 'Black + White' effect to it, as the picture itself in original colour, was far to contrasting in relation to the background and promos. The picture itself, I believe is a great addition to the look of the contents, it works effectively with the background image, and also doesn't contrast in relation to the promos.

At this stage of the creation of my contents page, I added the title. The layout of the title is in a two, three, three pose. Where the word is separated into smaller phases. I believe the graphic style  used in the title works incredibly with the magazine overall, especially in relation to the genre of music to which the magazine is based around. The colour scheme I decided to follow is the same as that on the front cover - a black word, with a small shaded blue outline. I followed the same text colouring scheme because from my research into various other magazines, I personally believe this is the most preferable way to advertise a magazine, getting the readers used to a colour scheme, so they know what to look for when identifying the magazine on the shelf when wanting to purchase a copy.

This is where I started to insert the smaller cover stories unto my contents page. The first of which '"WE FINALY DID IT", James's success.' Was an initial idea to which I decided to follow throughout the magazine, relating this to my double page spread article. The word finaly is spelt wrong, however for a reason, it is due a tattoo the lead singer has which is barely view-able on the pictures I have used. It relates to when the band started and how far they have come, this is all explained in the information on the double page spread. I decided to follow a similar colour scheme to the title, and I intended to follow this scheme throughout the contents page and the rest of the cover articles.




The second article line "CRY ME A RIVER - DUBSTEP'S FINEST' was used due to many people within my qualitative and quantitative research saying that they would buy a dubstep magazine, along with alternative rock (the genre of my magazine). I later added more cover stories, all of which following the same colour scheme. As you can notice, the colour scheme is also in relation to that of the title of the contents page, again linking back to the front cover.




At this stage of the creation of my contents page - I added another, small promo the right hand side, just sitting above the two I added at a previous stage. This was because the promo had a relation to one of the cover stories, and was therefore in constitution with the rest of the page. I also liked how the corners of the promo itself were not vivid, and therefore could not be considerably noticed by a viewer. The colours within the gig poster (promo) - were also very fitting, and complimented the rest of the page. I hence decided not to do what I did with the previous two gig posters, I added a different photo shop style to this promo - Poster Wrap - I believe this enhanced the picture, bringing out the colours, once again making it more complimenting to the rest of the page.

Final Edit Below.


This was the final stage in the creation of my contents page - where I added a couple of CD's in between the three posters in the bottom right corner of the page. I liked the contrast in colours to the rest of the page and therefore only darkened the edges of the CD's on photo shop before editing them in. I used an overlapping graphic scheme in-cooperating all three promos. I believe this was a great addition to the contents page - as the reader was then informed that CD's may be a promo within the magazine, or, indeed, that a cover story may be in relation to the CD's themselves. This is a style I intend to take unto my Double Page Spread. I later enhanced my contents page to full size (see front cover for dimensions and size comparison)