This document summarizes the development of a magazine contents page from an initial flat plan through multiple drafts. The final version includes the magazine cover, four article boxes, highlighted text, and a photo. While pleased with adding visual interest and conventions of music magazines, the creator notes the dark background could be lightened.

1. Flat Plan
This is a flat plan of my content page, it is very
rough and not very detailed, however it does
give a clear view of how my contents page will
look. The design is simple and ordered, which I
believe will look most effective when producing
my contents page.
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2. 1st draft
This is the first draft of my contents page. It is
very similarly laid out like my flat plan, having
the banner going across the top of the screen
which holds the heading ‘Pop Inside’, and having
the front cover being displayed again on this
page, to make it clear for the readers to see and
know what pages the main features appear on.
The boxes are all located at the bottom of the
page, however unlike the flat plan there are four
boxes rather than three, which allows more
information and more articles to be displayed.
The blue star in the bottom, centre of the page
is also very effective because it captures the
audiences attention encouraging them to read
that article. It not only stand out because of the
bright colour used, but also because the rest of
the shapes on this page are boxes, so this
difference is emphasised making it stand out
further.
I say that the rest of the page is only covered in
the square shape, although in the bottom, right
corner there is a heart displaying the page
number which I think looks really effective
because it will attract the young girls, this
magazines target audience.
I do like this draft however I feel that it could do
with having a few more photos or other features
on the page simply to add greater detail and
therefore interest for the audience.

3. Again to make my contents page I used the editing programme Photoshop. One of the good things about
Photoshop is the wide range of rich colours that they have to offer. This feature was really helpful when
producing my magazine because it allowed me to create a colourful magazine that would attract the younger
audience. I particularly liked it for my contents page, when I had to create a highlighted effect on my text, to
create varying interest and to develop the conventions of a music magazine. To do this I used a box tool and
then I painted it this bright yellow colour, these where then placed over my chosen text creating an interesting
effect.

4. Final Version
This is the final version of my contents page. I am
pleased with this page, because I believe it follows
the conventions of a real music magazine well.
There is a great deal of colours and articles that
would interest and attract the audience that this
magazine is targeted at.
I believe the use of adding the front cover to the
contents page and having the page numbers
coming out of it, is a very clever technique because
not only does it create a well designed contents
page, but it also allows the readers to see where
the main articles are featured within the magazine
in an easy way. Plus it is one of the main
conventions of a contents page used by a music
magazine with a similar target audience.
I feel the photo that I have added in the bottom,
left corner creates a varied page, as well as adding
more visual impact.
The four boxes that have the four chosen
categories work well on this page and definitely run
in with the theme and the target audience of this
magazine.
I do feel this contents page should have had a light
coloured background, because it does seem a bit
washed out, but apart from that I am happy with
my contents page and believe it is an effective,
informative page.