2. I did the start of this in the first lesson constructing it which
was on the 3rd of January 2014. Firstly when producing my
contents page I added the photograph that I had taken. I made
sure the photograph had similar colours to the front cover
image as it had green colours from the grass and other bright
colours from the spray paint, spray paint also a continuous
theme of my images. I added the image to the top of the page
as this was part of my design and other things would be below
the image. I used the picture content tool to make the image
the right size and fit in what I could into the image box.
I added some of this on the 3rd of January however I was to select
the fonts to use on the 6th of January and add them in that day. then
added text to the page. I added the ‘contents’, issue number and
cover date, the page number for what the image at the top would
be an article for. I did the ‘contents’ in font Birth of a hero size 72pt.
I added the issue number and cover date in the ‘dead kansas’ font in
size 9pt. I used dead kansas because it went with the eroded
scheme of fonts in the magazine. I added a large page number for
what the article of the image would be on. I also added the
masthead to the midsection with ‘this week’ next to it in the same
contents font with a line drawn with line tool under it to separate
what would be the articles later from it.
3. I completed this part on the 10th of January. I added the
masthead to the midsection of the page with ‘this week
next to it in the ‘birth of a hero’ font. I then added lines to
separate the columns using the line tool. I did this because I
wanted there to be more defined columns. I also added to
two separate columns ‘Regulars’ and ‘Features’ to
categorise where readers can find certain articles. This text
was done in the font ‘birth of a hero’ in size 36pt
I added this part on the lesson on the 15th of January
and the 20th. I also then added the articles and page
numbers to cohere with these. The font I used was
bronx bystreets to introduce the articles in green colour,
I used size 10pt for this. For the small description of the
article I did it in arial size 9pt. I made this slightly
smaller because it makes the article name stand out
more which is what the reader will first see. I also
added page numbers along the left hand side of each
column. The page numbers were also green coloured
with the bronx bystreets font in size 11pt.
4. This was done on the 24th of January. I then added
my images to the product. After this it was done.
To put the images in I had to use the picture
content tool to change the size of the image and
what’s cropped off it. For most the images it was
simply making sure they fit in the right size,
however the image representing the arctic
monkeys article took more work. I wanted the A
(for arctic) and the M (for monkeys) to both stay in
the image with the singer in-between as well as a
white font going over it to introduce the article so
I had to make sure it was the perfect size. I also
had to make the image spread across two
columns, I did this for the effect of it, I felt that it
looked better this way and stood out for people to
notice it. The white font on the article was made
white so it was more visible and done in the font
Arial at size 9pt. Also the page number to go with
it was in white as well in the font bronx bystreets
at size 14pt. To finish it all off I added the page
number 1 to the bottom corner of the contents
page.
5. This production of the contents page does deviate from my original plan. It has changed in the
positioning of images in the columns and where the ‘contents’ was written. I had to change the
positioning of ‘contents’ so that it had better visibility and still stood out. Because of the dark and
bright colours across the left hand corner of the image it was difficult for ‘contents’ to stand out. I
changed the images layout on the columns. In particular of this is the arctic monkeys image, I
changed this because I felt it made it look better with the article written out on the image. This is
a common convention of magazines to have the article written on the image it coheres with. I also
got rid of the letter from the editor. I did this because it wasn’t a necessity to feature one and by
getting rid of it I was able to feature an extra column of articles.
