1st Draft of my Music Magazine Contents Page

I researched some style models and found that they all had a very similar layout, the magazine I mostly

looked at was Top of the Pops.

I tried to follow convensions and patterns of my style models. For example, I used a wide banner in a bold eye catching colour. On this I put a title (mine was 'inside this issue..'), in a handwritten font. Handwritten and sans serif fonts look modern and informal - so this will appeal to my target audience.

I mentioned earlier in my coursework that I liked the idea of using the front cover on the contents page as a guide to help my readers find articles in my magazine. I did this in my magazine.

My guide was very similar to this. I used handdrawn arrows and had bright colours for the page numbers that are labelled on it. I havent highlighted any of my page numbers. For my next draft I want to make my guide slightly bigger and stand out a bit more on the page. Also, highlight some of the page numbers to make some of the 'bigger' articles stand out. 

Like the style models, I broke my articles and pages into categories, for example; celebrities. I drew this idea from the style models. I looked at other magazines that didn't do this and found that the page looked quite unorganised and it was difficult to find an article easily. I used boxes to organise my articles rather than just putting them directly onto the page, I thought that it would make it clearer and I wanted to make sure that categories didn't overlap and the page to become busy and muddled. I would like to add a few more categories to my contents page, and prehaps a few more images with page numbers.

I also thought about trying a different colour scheme, the one I have chosen is very similar to my front cover. But, after studying my style models, I found that this isn't completly nessecary. I want to link my colour scheme to the colours in Spring - for example bright colours, like pinks, purples, greens and blues. I also want to try some different fonts, althought the one I have chosen for writing next to the page numbers is very clear and readable, I don't think that they are very interesting or creative and don't think that will appeal greatly to my target audience.