Contents Page Background Edits

For my contents page i took the inspiration from a 'We Love Pop' contents page, i looked at the design, the background, the amount of pictures, writing and the additional information like what was added in the magazine. Here is an example of the magazine i took inspiration from;

 As you can see this magazine contents page is very busy with the writing the pictures and the images, from this magazine cover i have taken a similar sort of design with a different cloud pattern and a different arrangement.















My first preview of my contents background is bait boring and all of the patterns tend to be the same colour, i took colour of the blocks in the background from my title. The background of my title is blue so i decided to take the colour pallet fro the 'Pop Life' title. the reason i eventually changed the colour of one of the blocks is because the background become boring and it doesn't contrast well with he rest of the colours that was put on the contents page.


Here is my first edit of my contents page, i didn't like this because it is boring, nothing was added on to this but instantly it looks doesn't look very 'popish' as the colours aren't vibrant enough.

I then filled in the gaps to the top box and around the title to see if it was that, that made the contents page look unfinished and unprofessional, but it still didn't sit right because the colour scheme didn't seem right.

So I thought it would look better if I changed the colour of one of the boxes to try and match the colour scheme abit more to the title, ones I did this the background of the contend page began to come together, the colours of the writing matched more to the background blocks and it look more like my inspiration contents page.

               

I have used the colours pink and blue from my title colour pallet i think these colours are vibrant and charismatic, they make the background of my contents page very age appropriate and eye-catching.

I then began to add the writing and the boxes for the pictures in and it looks a lot better than it first did with the first block colours i put on.
This one looks better because i put the subtitles pink and it goes wight hr blue block at the top it doesn't clash with the pink at the bottom or look to much.













I then added my subtitles and picture boxes using my inspiration layout form, this was an important part of the process as i had to make sure the page was full enough to look like a pop magazine but not to full to the point where it looked tacky and childish.

Here i added a picture of my main group from my front cover and i bough over the kind of story that was put on my front cover, this group will be featured in my double page spread on my front cover and on my contents page.









Here i added a picture than i made in the style that would suit the kind of story that i have made. i edited the picture to make it look more bright and colourful and also removed the background so it would suit my type of magazine.















Here i have added a lot more to my magazine, i have put in mu min picture and added bait more colour.

I added in green and yellow because i thought the magazine began to look boring and colourless, with these two colours added it makes the magazine pop and draw your eye to whee the most important sections are. I put the page numbers and description in yellow and green to make them more eye-catching and make people interested in the story. I also put the little bubbles in yellow and green to make the magazine seem like it is more interesting and filled with more gossip.

I also added extra boxes to show where the rest of my pictures will be added.

I added in y main picture, i made my classmate pose as if she was in a photo shoot to match the subtitle again, because this makes it seem like her pictures get used a lot, i made the photo a lot more colourful and bright also making sure you can see the purple added to her hair. i thin this picture fits perfectly and ties the contents page together.

  To this screenshot i added a picture of a girl called demi, i chose this picture because the colours on her top are bright and contrast with the colours on my magazine, also the way her face is gives her a sort of attitude which fits perfectly with the story i have added her to.

 Here i began to add the pictures to the bottom of my magazine, i chose these pictures because they're not to serious like my previous pictures, i decided to keep the background on my pictures to add more to the magazine and make it look less plain.
I also added a picture to the centre of my magazine which is a picture of a crowd at a concert, this picture seemed to fit well there and also gives another selling point to the magazine as it has information on an up-coming event.

This is what my contents page looks like with only one picture and pages numbers to be added to it, i have chosen to use a lot of colour along with very bright pictures. Also the band that was used in my front cover are the main feature of the contents page and the double page spread also.

This is my finished contents page.