Construction of contents page

After creating my second draft, I just changed my final draft to the critics I received to make it look better. For example looking at this, you can see that it isn’t eye catchy and is quite dull, when music magazines should be engaging, with corresponding colours.

Second draft

I looked at a variety of different music magazines, and came across a NME one, which had the logo next to the words ‘contents’. I decided that this would be suitable for my magazine. So I got my logo (Rebel) and added the ‘Darken’ and added the ‘outer glow’ effect, even though it wouldn’t be noticeable the logo must be consistent. Then I added a black rectangle in the background in both texts (black). Then made the words ‘contents’ white, and changed the font. This was to make it look more of a professional contents page, which would be attractive to the audience.

Logo and title

Logo and titleThis is what the Logo and title looked like with the rest of the contents page afterwards....

TextI wanted to make the sub-heading stand out more and look more genuine to a music magazine. So I decided to add rectangles behind the text, then change the font to make it look more engaging.

Text

This is how the text looked after I finished changing them:

Editing ImageI then wanted to make a background of the image at the bottom of the contents page, as it didn’t look so suited for the magazine. So first I made a rectangle for the background of the image, then I clicked ‘fx’ so that I could edit the image. First I used the ‘drop shadow’ effect , so that I could add an effect on the model in the image, to give off a dark effect.Then for the rectangle, I went on ‘pattern overlay’ which allowed me to choose a pattern , and change the blend mode, which I choose ‘lighter colour’. This altogether made the image look more interesting and fit in more to the contents page

Final editingWhen I had finished, I decided that I wanted to change the font of the numbers, to make it stand out more, as it didn’t look so appealing. But this text ‘KG allofme’ has a square behind the number which makes it look bolder and more clearer to read (red and white).I also, ensured that I added enough text, so I added more, so I could fill in all the black spaces.