The creation process of my contents page.
- 1. This was my first idea for my contents page based off my initial pencil sketch. I was not happy with the spacing I had to fill with the text and I also felt that the text needed to be broken up instead of just being in three columns with nothing to dived them. I scraped this page as no matter how much fiddling around I did I could not make the text and imaging positioning any better.
- 2. I decided to start anew, creating it on an A3 canvas instead of the previous A4 as I thought I may be able to fit more on the page this way in terms of images and story detail. I felt the initial image had to much colour in the background and as I wanted to focus on the models, I made a subtle change and removed the colour from the background. I think this helps as the colours in the image were clashing with the background of the page.
- 3. My next step was to add in the stories, while I already had in mind what would be covered in my magazine so this was simple, however it left me with empty space again. In stead of expanding on the story descriptions I decided to add another column for the other ‘regular stuff’ contained in magazines. This still left me with and empty space so I used another of my images and I’m glad I did this instead of adding more text as the page may have looked to text heavy. I toned down the red in the boxes from my original colour red in my first contents page so as I felt that red was too bright.
- 4. Lastly I added the finishing pieces to the page which included the contents title and a few extra graphics to fill any remaining space left over. This is my final finished contents page. You can see the aspects of my original contents page I kept, the colour scheme and pictures. I am much happier with this piece as I was able to fill in the empty spaces and I feel it looks more interesting and professional.