Contents Page

Here is my draft of my music magazine contents page. I wanted my contents page to reflect the disobedient perspective that I am trying to convey throughout the entire production of my magazine (my front cover and double page spread). However with this first draft, I was not entirely content with the editing that I had carried out. I feel as though the main focus of this page is not the talent on the cover and I think that the black side bar that I have included on the left hand side of the cover, takes the attention away from the photo due to its over powering boldness. After I had finished editing my page on 'Pixlr' I became aware that the font size I had used was too small and would be unclear to the audience. I  thought this through and decided that it would be best if I kept the same font for the whole of the contents page in order to maintain my house-style.

Here is my final contents page. I decided that it would be best to transform the entire structure and layout of my page so that it comes across authentic. I based the page itself on 'Vibe' music magazine as I thought that this magazine in particular represents the same kind of attitudes that I would like my magazine to illustrate. When it came to editing my magazine contents page, I decided to use 'Pixlr' and 'Picmonkey' as I found that these two sites allowed me to develop the page in various ways. Throughout most of the page, I used a font called 'Freshman' as I felt that this was the most suited font. I say this because I think that the bold, expressionless features of the letters signify the fearless and impassive tone that I would like my magazine to show. I decided to use a black base for the page, as I felt that this was appropriate in allowing the photo and text to be increasingly prominent. I also decided to use the word 'Contents' backwards and not in a chronological order as I think that this is one of the best ways that my magazine can clearly portray its daring, dauntless attitude.

After looking at other Hip hop music magazines, I noticed that it was best to keep the contents page, plain and simple. I wanted the page to show that less means more and I think that too much information on one page could make it look messy and again, withdraw the attention from the main focus.

Having said this, after receiving audience feedback, I found that many people preferred my draft over my final contents page. After doing some further research I found that this was because; it was unclear to the audience what the page was sue to the fact that I had not placed the word 'CONTENTS' in order on the page. Even though this was deliberate and I wanted to do this to go in line with the rebellious tone that I am creating, I found that this was not so effective and for this reason decided that my draft would be better than my final piece in terms of delivering the full purpose and favour of the audiences.