CONTENTS PAGE DEVELOPMENT

To inspire the look of my contents page I looked at Q and Rolling Stone because I liked the simplistic style as I think it makes the magazine look more serious about the music and content it features.

I decided to soften the black and

reds as I like the

vintage/newspaper print style it gives

the magazine.

I put my columns in a box with a border

with a cream coloured

background to flow with the newspaper

print style, I used double lines to

separate the different features to add to the simplicity. I used yellow text on

the ‘Reading & Leeds’ heading as it goes with my colour

scheme and these are the colours associated with

reading festival – I did this to broaden my target audience

as when readers see this and make the

link to R&L festival goers will be more encouraged to read

my magazine.

For my columns section I took inspiration from Q magazine in the way the columns are separated and inspiration from

NME with the headings used. I took inspiration from aspects of similar

magazines to my own to help make my magazine look more professional,

buyable and ‘real’.

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I gave the contents

page a creamy

background to add to

the newspaper print style.

I brought down the

exposure of the photo

on the contents

page to go with the vintage style. I

made the image a bit larger and brought it behind the columns to make the page look

more flowing and

I gave it a black

border to make it

stand out and go with

the

I added the editor’s note to fill the empty

looking space in the right bottom

corner and to make the page

look more professional.