Finished School Magazine Contents Page

School Magazine Contents Page Finished... 
Contents Page

Well it's been a difficult few weeks. I can truthfully say creating a school magazine is one of the hardest things to do. However between the two I would definitely say the contents page was easier. My style model was Fusion for this and I think i stuck to it very well.
Firstly, I was very aware of spacing and layout when creating my contents page. As compared to front covers, contents pages are my square and rely on everything being in line with each and in order. Everything within a contents page has to be structured and thought out. When it comes to spacing everything needs to be in line and when it comes to layout I made sure that there was a mixture of images and texts to make it look more like style model. The articles were in chronological order and all in the same fonts. Next up was the colour and fonts. When it came to colours I decided to stick to 3 colours- black white and a grey as this is a common convention used in magazines. The 3 photos was contrast each other and all front certain things to stand out like the grey allows the white text to stand out as that is the main point of the contents page. Fonts was another key convention I stuck to when creating my contents. It's all basically the same font just in different colours and sizes. Some of the more important stuff is in bold like the word "contents" and all the page numbers as these are the things the audience will most attracted to.  To improve my contents page next time I will try and add more photos and do something more with background as it looks very plain and I feel if I had more time I could have done a lot more the photos. Although they do match the articles I feel I could Photoshop them and do something different with them. Next time I will definitely consider the photos more and the background in which I take the photos in. As in one photo in my contents page the background was white and the main photo and therefore I couldn't Photoshop it the way I wanted too.
Overall, I enjoyed making my magazine it was stressful and time consuming but it will enjoyable. Next time I will definitely do more in depth planning and focus more on layout and colours before I dive right in and take the photos. I will be more organised with my time and more sure I know exactly what I am doing. The style model has helped and inspired me the create this school magazine. I can't wait to start my music magazine, it will certianly be better than this one.