Contents page: layout

I started off my layout by using squares and rectangles from Microsoft PowerPoint and placing them around my sheet to see where they would  fit, I tried to make it similar to ‘We Love Pop’ magazine cover. 

I changed the colours to pink and purple so it would fit my theme colour. But it still didn't seem right so instead I used a cheat by using triangles and rectangles to do the boarder. And I tried to match it to the magazine cover and it finally looked right after a couple of tries.

As you can see I've also added other squares onto my page, this is to outline where I will be placing my image and text for the contents page. The huge square will be an image of a model who will be dominating my page, whereas the other three small squares will be images of other artists. The rectangular shape at the bottom left corner will be the contents page numbers so it won't be taking up much space like other magazines. Pop magazines usually use more images than text on contents page to make it seem more creative and eye catching, most teenagers may prefer to look at images rather than read. Yet again according to my survey and focus group, my audience would prefer to see a variety of text and images and the feature they're interested in is images, so I will have to produce good images. I will need four different models but one image will be the same model as my cover page and I already have an image from before so I'll need to find three models for my contents and one of the three will be dominating the page instead of the model I used for my cover.