Contents page production

Firstly when producing my contents page I added the photograph that I had taken. I made sure the photograph had similar colours to the front cover image as it had green colours from the grass and other bright colours from the spray paint, spray paint also a continuous theme of my images. I added the image to the top of the page as this was part of my design and other things would be below the image. I used the picture content tool to make the image the right size and fit in what I could into the image box.

I then added text to the page. I added the ‘contents’, issue number and cover date, the page number for what the image at the top would be an article for. I did the ‘contents’ in font Birth of a hero size 72pt. I added the issue number and cover date in the ‘dead kansas’ font in size 9pt. I used dead kansas because it went with the eroded scheme of fonts in the magazine. I added a large page number for what the article of the image would be on. I also added the masthead to the midsection with ‘this week’ next to it in the same contents font with a line drawn with line tool under it to separate what would be the articles later from it.

I then added the masthead to the midsection of the page with ‘this week next to it in the ‘birth of a hero’ font. I then added lines to separate the columns using the line tool. I did this because I wanted there to be more defined columns. I also added to two separate columns ‘Regulars’ and ‘Features’ to categorise where readers can find certain articles. This text was done in the font ‘birth of a hero’ in size 36pt

I also then added the articles and page numbers to cohere with these. The font I used was bronx bystreets to introduce the articles in green colour, I used size 10pt for this. For the small description of the article I did it in arial size 9pt. I made this slightly smaller because it makes the article name stand out more which is what the reader will first see. I also added page numbers along the left hand side of each column. The page numbers were also green coloured with the bronx bystreets font in size 11pt.

I then added my images to the product. After this it was done. To put the images in I had to use the picture content tool to change the size of the image and what’s cropped off it. For most the images it was simply making sure they fit in the right size, however the image representing the arctic monkeys article took more work. I wanted the A (for arctic) and the M (for monkeys) to both stay in the image with the singer in-between as well as a white font going over it to introduce the article so I had to make sure it was the perfect size. I also had to make the image spread across two columns, I did this for the effect of it, I felt that it looked better this way and stood out for people to notice it. The white font on the article was made white so it was more visible and done in the font Arial at size 9pt. Also the page number to go with it was in white as well in the font bronx bystreets at size 14pt. To finish it all off I added the page number 1 to the bottom corner of the contents page.

This production of the contents page does deviate from my original plan. It has changed in the positioning of images in the columns and where the ‘contents’ was written. I had to change the positioning of ‘contents’ so that it had better visibility and still stood out. Because of the dark and bright colours across the left hand corner of the image it was difficult for ‘contents’ to stand out. I changed the images layout on the columns. In particular of this is the arctic monkeys image, I changed this because I felt it made it look better with the article written out on the image. This is a common convention of magazines to have the article written on the image it coheres with. I also got rid of the letter from the editor. I did this because it wasn’t a necessity to feature one and by getting rid of it I was able to feature an extra column of articles.