Print screens of contents
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The document summarizes the process of designing the contents page for a magazine mock-up. Key design elements included organizing the contents in a single column with bold headlines, using red, yellow, and black colors to match the cover, and including a top bar with the date, issue number, and magazine name. Advertisements and photos were added to make the contents more eye-catching for the target audience. The layout was refined through multiple iterations, adjusting colors, images and other elements to improve the professional look of the magazine contents page.
Print screens of contents
- 1. Here you can see that I have organised my contents in to one column, using graphics around the headlines making it stand out so that it is easier for the readers to find what it is they will be reading about. I have used the colours red, Yellow and Black as they are bold, vibrant and they are link with the colours on the front cover. Also the small black bar at the top will include the date, and issue also it will read “MONSTER - CONTENTS”. I have used the magazine kerrang! To help me with these designs. I have found it easy to use quark as it is simple however sometimes to simple as you cannot get shapes or things such as that. Other than this I really like using this soft wear.
- 2. As you can see from this print screen I have added the title “CONTENTS”. Here I have added the main picture for my contents which is giving an edgy look and a cool atmosphere to the magazine. I looked at using different pictures but out of them all this was the best. I have tried to get the colour scheme to fit in with the colour that is displayed on the picture and it has worked out very well. I have added a advertisement “Get free Apps…” which are used in many kerrang! Magazines. So I thought it would be a good idea to add my own, to making more eye catching for my target audience.
- 3. Again I have used more advertisement in the bottom right to allow the readers to become more involved with the magazine itself. Also I have added the Cover date and the issue number in the black bar stretching across the top I have added this as it makes it seem more professional and I feel it looks more like a magazine. I have chosen not to change anything about the colour scheme of the contents as I know that the colours fit perfectly with the cover.
- 4. In this shot I have decided to change the colour of the advertisement (bottom right) to make it stand out more as the yellow and the dark blue looked a little silly and the colours clashed. I want it to attract the attention of the reader so I have made it a lighter blue highlighting the heart red and this colour connotes love and passion. And again to make the magazine look more professional I have chosen to add in my own Editors letter which is very bright and stands out a lot.
- 5. Here I have chosen to include to smaller pictures toward the bottom of the magazine to add more quality in the magazine, one them is of the unsigned artists who is holding a guitar, and the other is in black and white which is giving out a lot of attitude and edginess to the magazine. I am concerned however about the large white gap in the middle there so I may in clue some more photographs liking with the magazine. I have also changed the colour of the editor’s letter as in the other print screen it was clashing in with the writing in the black box at the bottom I also have looked on some kerrang magazines and they have used a simple black font for the letter so that it is easier for the fan to read.
- 6. I have happily decided that I would keep the writing of my contents page the same and I would also leave to top bar with the date, issue and master head. Only because I like the layout and I think that this will work well as it has a very hard and rough look. This picture here I have chosen of Bethany Johnson, is quite friendly and inviting but also has that edgy rough look about it as she is sitting on a bricked floor. I have chosen it for my content as it invited the reader but it also continues to use my chosen mood.
- 7. Again I have made the decision to keep this black and white picture only because his facial expression really gives the magazine rough look also his attitude show that he doesn’t really care and the face he has head phones in also creates that rock atmosphere. I feel I have made a great difference already by changing it around and trying out new things. The more time I have spent using Quark the more I feel I can handle and work with it.
- 8. In the end I had chosen a completely different set of images that I thought would work well together. I feel that the two at the bottom really show that edgy vibe that I wanted to create. I have also placed the page number in the corner of the image so that the reader can easily find what it is they are looking for. I also thought that by having a subscribe added in the magazine would make it more professional. I have also placed and arrow at the bottom which will attract the audiences attention as it is something interesting and important in the magazine. Also my contents is all in a straight column, to make it a little tidier, I feel that my contents has made much progress.