Stages of contents page

Stage one...

After looking at many different music magazines I decided that I would include, in my contents page a note from the editor. Therefore this is what I added to the blank A4 page first. I then added the 'What's inside'. As my target audience is for younger readers I thought that by saying whats inside other than contents, they would understand it better and it is more child like. I carried on the same colour for whats inside from the masthead, this is so that is linked together and it looks like it has come from the same magazine. The way in which i wrote the note from the editor, I aimed it to have friendly language as if the reader and I were friends.  

Stage two...

 

I then the pages in which is going to be inside my magazine. I did a section for the things that are regulars within the magazine and then I did another one in which it contained the things that had been added into the magazine for that weeks copy.

Stage 3....

 

In this stage I carried on the theme of the rainbow and placed it into the corner on a slant. Therefore I could then make it smaller and easier to place when there was not that much room left on the page, as I still needed to add some images. I also placed a yellow box around the 'What's inside' and then pink boxes around the editors note, 'regulars' and 'features'. This then contrasts it in with the colour scheme of the rainbow, like the front cover.

Last stage...

I finished the contents page off, just by adding in some images of the main story within the magazine. (Lottie Piper). That way the reader knows that that version of the magazine is based around her.