Creating my magazine contents page

In this post I am going to once again take you through the stages that I undertook in creating my magazines contents page:

To start with I began by taking a white page and continuing my theme from the front cover went for a large piece of text boxed in with colour, allowing me to use a white font here on a black background. The image in the upper right hand corner of the page was created by taking the original image, duplicating it and applying a zoom motion blur to the bottom layer before changing the top layer to a lighten layer, this gave a distorted yet unique image. I've also added in some text under the image giving it a reference to a DPS in the magazine. In the second and third phases of this design I added in another image, this time I simply changed the brightness and the contrast of the original before flipping it horizontally in order to make it seem as if the subject is looking into the details on the page. Once again I added in some text which linked the new image to content on the cover.

These next two phases are where the pages really start to take shape, in the first of these stages I have added some block colour and some more text to the bottom image and started to add in some more page details about the content in the magazine itself. On one of these articles I added in I have linked it to a recently released song which has become quite popular called 'I Need A Doctor' which was released by Dr Dre. therefore I added it to the contents page in the line 'Dre needs a doctor' playing on the name of the song. In the second of these shots, I decided that the page was looking a bit bland and boring so I decided to once again carry my them from the front cover and break up the lines of text with some simple coloured lines. I've also added in a small piece of text with a link to the website where there are extra reviews, competitions and downloads as well.

Final Contents Page:

This is the final contents page that I have come up with, the additions on this one are that I have taken up the large empty space on the right hand side of the page with text that gives the readers a much more detailed view, although not too detailed that they get the information straight away, into what the rest of the magazine will cover inside. By using some more block colouring it draws the eye to it and make people want to read it. I have also used text at the end of the piece which gets larger to indicate that the magazine only gets better and better as you are reading it and that there's a lot more inside on top of what's being advertised on the contents page itself.