Music magazine contents page and evaluation.

In my music magazine contents page i decided i would continue to use the colour scheme from the front page of the magazine. The Background i decided to start of white as i had planned to use a good contrast between the text and the colours so that the text could be easily read. The scarlet colour at the bottom right hand of the page was added on top of the white background to make the page a bit more colour full than it would have been if i had just left it white. Also the colour at the top of the page was also inserted to try and make the page more colourful and more appealing to the audience.
The next stage of the contents page creation progress was to add a masthead to the page so the reader can easily distinguish what page they are looking at. This is seen in most magazines including Q magazine and the rolling stones magazines.The masthead was in the font Zolano Serif BTN and also was stood out from the page as i had added to different background colours and there is also a shadow visible on the top half of the masthead. The shadow is done in white and is therefore uneffected visibly on the section with the white background. However on the Scarlet background the shadow is clearly visible and gives the masthead extra contrast and therfore makes it easier to distinguish.
 Next i added the image to the right hand side of the page. The image was taken using the same camera from the front page and was taken again from the medium close up position. In this shot i decided to use the green background as the actual background on the picture because i felt that the green colour of the background went well with the image and also contrasted well with the rest of the page. The picture was taken by having the person in the image standing. This was accompanied by two fans either side of her facing towards her head. This gave the effect of the hair appearing to by swaying in the image. This was done to make the picture look more dramatic as in other magazines the images of the artists are often dramatic. The artist is also staring out of the page which is consistent with images of people in most magazine the exception being Movie magazines such as Empire.
The next part was to add text to the left hand gap on the page. These were to become the contents. I decided to place them on the left hand side because that is were most other music magazines have the contents in there magazines. This means that my music magazine was following the codes and conventions set by other music magazines. Also the image can also be applied to this because the image is on the right hand side of the page, fills up most of the space and also has the artist looking out of the page. The contents were written using the font of Zolano Serif BTN which is the same as the masthead. This was done as this font is easy to read. The font was made relatively small with a line between each of the different contents. Again this made the contents much easier to read. The contents were headlined by titles of front page and featured which were done using the font of Youngsook BTN. I decided to have a different font for the title of the content sections because i felt that the a differnce in font size, colour and font would create a differnce between the contents and there titles. I named the titles of the contents front page and featured because the on the front page of my music magazine i had included some text that said what was in the magazine. This is similar to other magazines that advertise what is in the magazine on the front cover. Also, this can ease the effort needed by the audience when reading the magazine when a member of the selected audience or audiences, as it is in my case, reads the magazine. Often when they look at the front cover they may be interested by a story advertised on the front of the magazine. So when a contents page is created it may be a wise decision to add this beacause the reader can easliy search and find the story that they are looking for on the contents page. The features section of my music magazine contents is labelled as features because the music magazine will have certain areas of the magazine that will be featured in that magazine alone.
I used the colours red and yellow for the title of the contents because i wanted to add contrast to the page. This can also be used as an example why the numbers are a different colour than the black text to there left. On the words off stars of the future i have indented slighlty into the image because i felt that the image would go unrecognised and be pointless if i did not do this. The indentation also contains the number of the page were this is located this is done to find the page with ease as it is related to the image.
At the bottom of the page directly underneath the image i have inserted a small section of an article inside included inside the magazine. I have done this to accompany the image and also to give the image a much better purpose than to just sit be there without any background information on what it is about.
The details featured on the page of the eye and the people standing in the crowd are taken from the software Photoplus X3. The images were taken from the paint tool people from the stamp section of the software. I added these as i felt it made the page more intersesting. The image of the eye is the same one from the front page of my music magazine and so can also be seen as continuing in a similar way as if the page is looking at the reader. This attracts attention.
Overall i feel that the contents page is layed out clearly with two different sections of text and the image. This makes the page easy to read look at and does not overcomplicate the page in any way. The page also goes well with the colour scheme used on the front page of the music magazine that i have created.