My evaluation of my student magazine contents page

1. Contents page title
Numbers are prominent
Pictures for insight
Big bold numbers
on pictures for the
most important
articles
Link to magazine
website
Short bit of info on
the articles

2. For my background I used a Photoshopped image. From
comparing my contents page to the ‘Q’ one I realise it would
have looked better and more professional with a plain
background. The layout for ‘Q’ used the rule of thirds very
effectively my layout doesn’t really follow this making it less
conventional for a contents page. My contents page includes
more social networking links than the ‘Q’ page this is because of
the difference in time when they were both produced. This
shows how magazines may have adapted throughout the years.
The ‘Q’ magazine includes the masthead on the contents page
this is following a code and convention of a contents page. My
page does not have this. I should have added this as it would
make my page more proficient. In the ‘Q’ contents page they
have the date at the top of the page. I did not include this in my
contents page. All of the images included in the ‘Q’ contents
page have been Photoshopped before being added to the page.
I also did this for my contents page as it makes the images look
more enhanced. The Numbers on the pictures are in a big bold
font to make them more prominent. ‘Q’ also does this as it is a
code and convention it also helps the audience know which
articles are the most important. My article titles are in
chronological order, once again because it is a code and
convention of a contents page.