The document discusses the process of designing a magazine contents page. It began with researching magazine contents pages to understand basic codes and conventions. The designer was particularly interested in the layout of a Vibe magazine contents page due to their similar target audiences. They created a mock-up based on this to guide their layout. Key elements included anchoring the contents to reinforce magazine aesthetics and including images and page numbers to entice readers and relate to other pages. After receiving feedback, the designer increased the font size of page numbers for clarity.

2. I have research magazine
contents pages that relate to the
genre I will be using. I have
decided to employ these basic
codes and conventions hoping
that it is unlikely for me to go
wrong when trying to appease
my target audience. One
particular contents page
engrossed me, this is a Vibe
contents. This contents in
particular attracted me because
it has a simple layout yet is
catchy and effective.

3. PRODUCTION PROCESS..
To make my contents page I
had to follow my mock
up, this enabled me to layout
make a conventional
contents page that would be
familiar to my audience. My
mock up was based on the
Vibe contents page as we
both have similar audiences .

4. When designing I first started of
by anchoring my contents
page, this Is a key element in the
vibe contents page that I have
adopted. The purpose of
anchoring is to reinforce the
magazine aesthetics.

5. QUEEN VS. VIBE..
I tried to make the contents
information look as familiar as
possible to the Vibe contents
page, also it important that I did
not make the information in list
form this is a common mistake
and not a convention of a
contents page. It was also
important that I included page
numbers this is so it relates to my
front page and double page
spread another form of
anchoring.

6. FEEDBACK..
after
After student feedback I
decided to increase the
font size on the page
numbers, this make its
stand out from the
information.
before

7. IMAGES…
I decided to use at least 3 different images for my contents page, this was
to entice my reader and because it is a basic convention of a contents
page. When deciding what images I wanted I knew I wanted it to link
somehow to my double page spread and my front page; however I
wanted to further reinforce the hip-hop music aspect of my contents
page, this lead me to pick these images..
• I anchored these
images to form a
cohesion with the
rest of my work.
• To make these
images blend in
with the rest of my
contents page, I
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to the double my genre and has my genre and has which darkened the
page spread. music equipment. music equipment.
i.e. stereo
images. Also I
darkened the
edges.

8. HOW I CHANGED TRANSPARENCY IN INDESIGN...
This was the I right clicked
original the
image mouse, scrolled
down to effect
and click on
transparency..
The transparency was 100% I
changed it to 77%..
As a result the picture appears to fade
into the background, this also makes
the picture darker.
I did this for the rest
of the images I used
on my contents
page..

9. MY FINISHED CONTENTS PAGE..