T O C W I T H C O M M E N T A R Y

This is my contents page for my magazine and overall I am pleased with it. I particularly like how it has a consistent colour scheme throughout the page which I created by using the eyedropper in Photoshop to pick out colours from the image and filling the squares in the my scanned in drawing with those colours. I also think that the page is recognisably from my magazine and has a layout and design that fits with the covers and my double page spread. I think its a really unconventional contents page due to the fact that a lot of the typical conventions for a music magazine are missing, such as  an editors note or the fact that there is only one main image whereas most contents pages that I looked at from existing music magazines such as NME and Kerrang had multiple images from different scenarios and of different people. My image also doesn't have a model and doesn't feature a particular artist or band or person which is really unusual, but I think because the image relates to an article in the magazine that is also listed on the contents page, it isn't a completely random choice of image and it does relate to travel and touring etc. I think the strong title 'contents' is really effective as it is simple and quick to read and straight to the point, and when researching and analysing other existing contents pages from music magazines, I noticed that a bold and large title is a typical convention that you would find on a contents page. I think the font I used (Bebas Neue) helps to make the title bold and eye catching and I like how it looks with the letters slightly spaced out. I think that the way I have listed the main featured articles is really unique and is a layout that is more likely to be used in a more independent, high end magazine such as Dazed and Confused or Tank Magazine.  Also, because there is a lot of white space on the page this instantly makes the page seem quite simplistic and minimalistic making it very unconventional and not at all like any other music magazine, which is what I wanted to initially do and I think I have achieved.