Contents page production

I started off by adding just the masthead, as I originally planned to have a white background to it with a faint outlining, but I decided to make it grey as when trying it out it looked better than my original plan. Grey is also a colour that is associated with grime as it seen to be quite a rough kind of feel to it. The masthead I decided to have black as this stood out the best and that was the main aim of my masthead.

I then added the advertisement to the online website, I located this at the bottom as it is the least important information and a key convention of magazines is to follow this pattern and is very common from my research into music magazines. I used blue and white writing as this worked well with the black background, while sticking to the colour scheme of my magazine. I used a few different fonts and font sizes to make the key phrases like "best Grime artist of 2016" stand out. After that I added the main image, this was so that I could decide how big it was before adding the contents around it. I gave it a slight border which makes it more aesthetically pleasing and added a black rectangle with his name in and the page numbers, this is a key convention of magazine contents pages.

The next step was firstly adding the faint boxes to the outside of the actual contents, this I felt made it look more professional, added to my simplistic layout and made it have a better structure. Then I added the titles of the information "MAIN" and "EXTRAS", which a black background to contrast with the big ,white, bold font. Then I added the contents which I used a standard font so that it is easy to read and is also a key convention of magazine contents pages.

Lastly, I added page numbers. I made them blue with quite a thick black border so that they stand out to the audience as this is a key part of the contents page and is another key pattern that I found from contents pages, that they make them appealing and different from the rest of the fonts and colours. This is my finished contents page and I am very pleased with how it has gone.