Contents Page Step by Step

To start creating my contents page I placed in a black background, I used a black background as black is a colour that is highly associated with rock music which would appeal to my target audience. I then made the title ‘contents’ so my audience would be able to easily identify the contents page, I also used big bold light red writing to back up this fact. Big and bold is usually stereotypically associated with rock also backing up and adding to the genre of rock for my magazine.

I laid out my contents page in the way of a festival line-up as rock music is also associated with festivals. For example the reading line-up poster inspired me to create my contents page in this format.

I then included some images onto my contents page to give the audience an insight to what may be in those pages listed. This is my contents page research in the Kerrang magazine where there are multiple images corresponding to the text.

I then came to realise that the text front was to big for a magazine and wouldn’t look right against the rest of the magazine. To fix this I made the text size smaller and added more pages and images to fill the space. Next to the images I added the page corresponding page numbers so the audience would be able to identify which page the image will be on. This technique was taken from my contents page research as this was also used.

Furthermore I added social media icons as my target audience is male and female the ages of 16-40, this age group is most likely to use social media so this would help to sell the magazine to an even further point.