Sunday, 8 April 2012

Final Draft of my Contents Page




I am alot more pleased with this draft in comparision to my first draft. I think that this draft looks more proffessional and I added some additional features to it, which I thought made alot of difference. For example, when writing next to my page numbers about the contents, I wrote an additional comment. I did this to add a bit more information about the article and also persuade the reader to look at the article. For example on one I wrote 'don't miss this!'. I wanted my magazine to be friendly and I did this by using less formal language, and by using a handwritten font. I also wrote in white, I thought this contasted with the black and made the additional comment stand out.
Like my 1st draft, I broke my pages down into categories. I added one more category, and this seemed to make the page look a bit busier which was what I wanted to achieve. My contents page style models have alot on the page and I wanted to do this to follow convensions.
After consideration, I decided to keep my original colour scheme. This was because I wanted to follow a pattern throught my magazine. Meaning that I want to use the same colour scheme on my cover, contents and double page spread. I made the picture of my other star (Lucie in the right hand corner), a bit bigger so its very eye catching. Also, so my readers can see some of the contents of the magazine without having to read down the lists. I added a page number next to the image of the talent, and to the images of the products, so readers can easily turn to this page quickly if they would like to. On my 1st draft, I had seperate page numbers for each of the products. I looked at my style models and saw that they only had one page number for all the products, so I decided to follow this convension. I thought it also made my page look neater, as I thought this area on my 1st draft looked cluttered.
I kept the banner on the top of my contents, but this time made it sightly smaller, as I thought last time it took up too much room on the page. After doing this, I was able to make the image of my front cover bigger. This made it more readable and it was easier to get the arrows to point to. I also added more page numbers to my contents page. After looking at my style models, I noticed that not all the page numbers were included on the contents page, but most of them are. Therefore, I did this on my page.

1 comment:

  1. Harriet, I can't read your archive titles in blue - you do need to change these, especially before moderation.

    If you are evaluating the final draft here, you need a copy of the page on this post.
    Keep up the good work!

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