Contents Page Change

I decided I disliked my first contents page and decided to change this by starting another contents page. I first started by making the paper to an international paper of A4 and starting the band index. After this, I followed the theme and conventions of my music magazine and placed the title in the left hand corner, by print screening the font of the website 'da font' and pasting from paint. I then created a shape on photo shop the match the size of the title and fitted at the top of the page. I then placed the band index at the left side of the page under the title to created a clear layout, therefore everything would be structured on my contents page, following the conventions of a music magazine.

I then placed a shape which was the colour black above the band index content. I placed font of 'da font' named bebas neue, as this looked successful on the magazine as it looked like a typical font used and rock type. I then coloured in the shape which was for the contents title and the title the same shade of red, as this made the theme of red, black, white and green consistent throughout my magazine. After this, I positioned the pictures to the right of the band index, to look more structured and fit together. I edited the title to have a drop shadow and embossed the title, also giving the title a stroke effect which gave the title a background of white to stand out more, this followed the layout of nme magazine as they give their title a stroke effect of a different colour.  Then I continued to do the different sections of each articles, features, news, radar, etc. Each section had a black shape the same width and length as others above the text, each using bebas neue as the font. For each section the title of each article was larger than the content of the text and made bold, the font used was Tiresias PC font at 14pt, then the content of each text was smaller and regular. At the bottom of the page, I used text from photo shop to include the contact of the magazine, to make the magazine seem more realistic and enables the buyers to interact with the readers, by also using images of logos from twitter and instagram. From following the conventions of nme, I made a small article of an insight of what the article would be about of Sami and highlighted the title, and used typical rock text. Beside, I included the editors letter as this if a typical convention of a music magazine, by placing a shape over the text coloured grey but changing the opacity to ensure the text is clear to see. This contents page is more successful than my other one which I first created, as it is more structured and looks more like a typical, successful indie rock music magazine.