Development of contents

1. Development of
Contents Page

2. As the majority of
magazines are in
an A4 format, A4
needed to be
selected here.
I chose to have 3
columns on my Front
Cover in order to
plan where the
individual features
would be placed.
For the
Contents page I
only required
one page,
opposed to the
DPS which
requires two
facing pages.
In order for the image to
be to the edges of the
page when printed I
have selected a 4mm
bleed all the way around
my magazine, ensuring
no image is lost.

3. Result from setting up a new
document
The Red line represent the bleed of
the page.
Bleed is a printing term that refers to
printing that goes beyond the edge of
the sheet before trimming. In other
words, the bleed is the area to be
trimmed off. The bleed is the part on
the side of a document that gives the
printer a small amount of space to
account for movement of the paper,
and design inconsistencies.
(Wikipedia)
3 Guideline Columns

4. • Stage 1 of the construction process was to write
“contents” in my chosen font, Bleeding Cowboys,
front Dafont.com. This I took and inverted in
Photoshop so the writing was in white and the
background black, two of the desired colours from
my target audience research.

5. • I then Inserted the photo of my chosen band into
Indesign. I then found that right clicking on the photo
allows you to open it directly in Photo shop, and any
changes made were updated directly in Indesign
also. Here I feathered the edges of the image.

6. • Again using my chosen font, I repeated the same
inverting process for each of my contents titles.
These were inserted and spaced equally apart at
first. I kept these white as I thought it would stand
out.

8. • I inserted the numbers 2 to 20, depending on how
many pages each article would cover. These
numbers were also put in white because I believed
it would contrast with the black, suiting the Rock
genre.

10. • I began by writing in the contents of my magazine…

11. ………Until I had enough articles to cover 20 pages.
This didn’t stand out enough however, and after
showing this stage to 3 13-17 year olds I concluded it
wouldn’t follow the theme of the magazine or
appeal to my target audience if the writing was only
in white.

12. • Because of this I changed every other Number and
line of text to purple, the same as I had already
used on my Front Cover. This, when shown next to
the text in white to a different group of 5 13-17
year olds, got great responses therefor I would
decide to keep with this design.

13. • I had a range of ideas for the other images to be
used on my contents page, but all I knew is that I
wanted them to represent the subjects ‘Paramore’
on page 17, and ‘Spotify’ on page 19…
• (I placed the purple boxes as a guide, but decided
they looked good as backgrounds for the images.)

14. • …to do this I took a photograph of the CD from a
Paramore Album, ‘Riot!’. I also went online to find
the Spotify logo, which I opened in Photo Shop and
made purple to match the theme of my magazine.

15. • To these background boxes I added a feather effect
by right clicking and choosing effects. I didn’t
understand the terminology used in these options
so I viewed a YouTube video to ensure I achieved
what I intended to do.

16. • I also added this to the two images on top of the
purple boxes.

17. I thought the background of my contents page was too plain and
wanted to incorporate something else onto it. I reviewed the
responses from my questionnaire and a few people said they’d
like to see art/drawings in a music magazine.
I drew a fallen angel in chains, as I
though it would suit the Rock theme,
and also the theme of my chosen
band, Wicked Faith, who often base
their music on faith and
religion/beliefs. This was then
scanned in digitally.
I made a few adjustments, using
Photo Shop, to the quality a
pencil marks, paper texture and
rubbings out could be seen from
the scanned image.
I then Inverted this In Photo
Shop in order for the drawing to
be in white and the background
black. This was then added to
the background layer of my
contents page.

18. • This is what the page looked like after adding my
drawing. I thought this worked well and hoped I
would have another opportunity to use one a
drawing of my own.

20. • To keep the audience Interested in my music
magazine I added a box which gives details on how
to keep up to date through Facebook and Twitter.
This wasn’t very appealing or noticeable, therefor I
decided to do more to it.

21. • I found the Facebook and Twitter Logos online and
added them to my page without making any
adjustments to them.
• Here I felt as though my contents page was done.