The document describes the design process for a contents page of a music magazine. Key details include: - A black box was used as the background and colored sections were added, including the title in purple and contact info in white. - Feature names and page numbers were added in black and purple to complement the color scheme. - An artist image was placed in a gray box to stand out from the white, black, and purple colors. - Additional elements like an editor's letter and contest details were included to engage the target audience of 16-21 year olds.

1. CONTENTS PAGE
POWERPOINT

2. I started off by designing the layout
for the contents page. This
consisted of making a black box
which was used as a background
for the title, contact information,
issue number and a date. I chose
to make it black and I did it by
using a brush and colouring it in.
The reason why I chose black was
that it looks good on the page and
usually black goes together with all
colours and it is important that
colours on contents page match.

3. Reason I've chose to colour the
box at the top in black is because
this colour is within my colour
scheme.
The title ‘contents’ is written in
purple because this colour is the
dominant one of the magazine.
The other text, such as contact
information is written in white
because it goes together with the
purple colour and matches the
black background.
Also I have included social
networking logos to emphasise
that my music magazine can be
found online. I did it by saving the
photo on the computer/laptop and
then opening a new image.

4. Then I added a sub-heading which
says ‘features’ to show that there
will be included people’s names
who my audience will be able to
read about in this magazine. Page
numbers always have to go with
the names too so then the
audience knows what page to find
their articles on.
I decided to write this in black
because then it looks casual and
suits the white background. The
page numbers are written in purple
because it's one of my colour
scheme colours.
I put artists names but underneath
that I also decided to put a little
sub-text to give the readers an
idea what the article will be about.

5. I used the same artist on
contents page as on my
front cover because it is
important that there is
continuity all way through
the magazine therefore front
cover, contents page and
double page spread have to
have the same artist on
them to show that it is still
the same magazine.
At some point I used lasso
tool, but at some - polygonal
lasso tool. For the hair it is a
loteasier to use polygonal
lasso tool as it doesn't have
any small bits to cut off. If
the head has sharp edges,
then the rubber can be used
to make the hair look more
realistic. Lasso tool was used for the other parts of body, eg. legs, arms because they
most likely will just be straight so there is no point in using the other lasso tool which
takes more time.

6. 6
After I cut my artist out, I put her in the box which is placed on the contents page
because then it made her stand out as she's the main artist. Even though, grey is not
in my colour scheme, the box is still coloured in grey because it goes well together with
white, black and purple. I thought it was a good idea to use this colour because purple
would be too much and too bright, black would be too dark and white wouldn't stand
out. Also I had to hide some parts of her behind the box borders because if I didn't then
it wouldn't look right.

7. After the previous step, I added
some more parts on the page,
such as editor's letter. It is
important that this is included
because then it makes the
magazine look more informal
which will obviously attract my
target audience and they're
people aged 16-21.
'Win! Leeds fest tickets' is there
to show that those tickets can be
won which will make people pay
attention to that article where it
explains about how to win them
which is one of the main
purposes - make the magazine
be interesting.
The text I put in the box with the
main artist tells the audience a
bit more what will be included in
the main article of this magazine
as well as it says the page
number which it can be read on.

8. I couldn't decide which
colour to use for the box
so I tried both of my
options and
screenshotted them to
compare. Purple looked
good but it didn't really fit
in therefore I thought
grey would be better to
use in this case. Also the
box above it is coloured
in grey so they both go
well together.