The document describes the process of designing a contents page for a music magazine in Photoshop. The designer started with a blank page and added section headers like "Contents" and "Regulars", as well as images of artists. Colors and effects were used to emphasize important elements and create visual interest. After an initial attempt, the designer decided to restart with a black and white gradient background to match the new front cover design. Headers, boxes, and text were added in complementary colors to create consistency across the magazine pages.

2. I started off with a blank A4 page on Photoshop. Thinking about
how I should construct this contents page.

3. I then put the Heading “Contents” in the top left of the page and a picture of
my main music artist in the bottom left of the page. I put a pink outline
around the picture to increase the feminine look around the picture.

4. Then I added the second image I planned to use for the contents, at the top right of the
page, and I put a blue outline around it to exert masculinity and match the colour of the top
the artists jacket. I put the text “Issue 3 April 13th” to make it seem more like a music
magazine.

5. I then added the headers “Regulers” and “Features”. I put them there to show which parts of
the contents were featuring or normally there. I put features next to my cover artist because she
is the featuring artist of my magazine.

6. I then started to add some of the contents on the page. I put the star there to emphasise
the feature aspect of the contents.

7. After I was making the contents, I decided that it wasn’t working to well with my colour
scheme, and I wasn’t really liking how it was going, so I decided to re-start making my
contents page, with a new design. I started by putting a black and white gradient which
matches the background in my new front cover.

8. I added the contents heading and the issue number and date. I chose the inside of the
contents heading to be blue and the outside to be black/dark grey. I did this so it would
match the way I coloured the magazine title of the front page. I did this to make the more
important headings have a blue fill to stand out, and the rest of the text have the
opposite, with a black/dark grey fill with a blue outline. I gave the contents heading the
same cracking effect that I gave the magazine title.

9. I then put the headings “Regulars” and “Features”. I gave the Features heading a Red outline to
make the Features section stand out from the contents, like I did on the front page with the
Marylae section. I also gave them the cracking effect, so they would come out as important
parts of the contents, which they are.

10. Then I added Boxes for where I will put the actual contents for the sections. I used the
colours I did to match and keep up with the colours I have used throughout the magazine.

11. Here is where I started to add some of the actual contents. I used some of the common interests
of youth of today, things like the blackberry craze. A extremely large number of young people in
London have now obtained the blackberry phone, so to talk about it in my music magazine
would be of a common interest amongst my target audience, as my target audience are mainly
youth. I put the regulars contents in black/dark grey fill and a blue outline, and I put the features
contents in light grey fill and a red outline, to match the colouring of the Marylae (cover artist)
text on the front cover.

12. Then I put in the additional images, of two more grime artists. With this, I added page numbers
on where you can find the news on the artists on the bottom right corner of each artist image.

13. I then added the final parts of the
contents, and with that, finished my
contents page. I think that this contents
page works better than the previous
one that I was making. This one also
goes with the new front cover I made as
well.