Contents page: research + development

Here is the development and detailed research of my contents page for my magazine 

Reflection: If I had to be honest this was actually the easiest part when I was making my magazine I was able to come up with a final draft within the first lesson of working on it which was 2 hours. All I had to do left was fixing the minor details with my teacher in order for it to look very nice. As I enjoyed experimenting with different layouts and designs and finding out which typefaces work well on this page, however I hated compiling the research and needing to remember to screenshot each time I wanted to make a change within the page as sometimes when I get into the zone and enjoy putting everything together I keep forgetting to screenshot from time to time. 

Problem: Although I had a problem in finding inspiration from different magazines as most didn't suit my taste due to it looking very vintage and not matching up with the style of magazine Im going for 

Solution: So instead I made most from random ideas I had in mind or not I look at real magazines some of my classmates brought as most were more modern looking and I took most inspiration from that 

I will start off with the research I have on some fashion contents page that caters to my target audience (young adults)

I also referenced some from my old research that I first done about magazines, however I will pick a few to draw out drafts for it and here are some that I recreated from my research and some from my own creativity 

Step 1: sketches (red text indicates the type of shot taken)

Step 2: digitalise some drafts 

Step 3: choose one draft and experiment 

After I had rechecked with my teacher he came with a whole new idea on my contents page which was this layout, he was able to come up with this as it came from my first draft I made just shifting it to look more cohesive. 

He also reminded me to use the borders from the website I used to create my magazine in order everything looks aligned as a problem i had before was not having everything spaced out evenly for each text which can be seen from my first draft. But a noticeable difference was that i rewrote most of my content as it can be seen from my first draft that my main models name was used for all parts of the content and when my teacher went around to check everyones work he told me I could use celebrities name that attracts the target audience from my magazine. Thus, why I used celebrities such as Anne Hathaway, Gigi Hadid, Dua Lipa, Haily Bieber, and Kylie Jenner as thats what attract my target audience (young adults & teenagers). I also added a my page number and fixed the borders in order for the texts to be spaced out evenly. 

As I already figured out to use this layout I just tried experimenting with other elements which was the typeface of the heading. One example would be this 

I tried by covering some part of my picture with the heading but I didn't end up using this design as it looked messy 

Step 4: Final contents page 

From my first and second draft I decided to keep most the same such as the texts and layout of the entire page. What I did change though was the heading, even though I thought my second drafts heading was good I received input from an upperclassmen to change it to an italic look similar to my front cover as it looked more elegant and luxurious. Due to my seconds draft heading looking quite tacky.  I also added a small coloured box for my page number as I thought it looked quite empty.