I was looking at many regional lifestyle contents page in order to get inspiration in how to create my a successful and professional one. When creating any of my products I always start with the image and work everything else around it. For my contents page not only did I need a really appealing image but I also needed one which had a lot of dead space so I could fit it all my contents. This landscape image had a nice visual point in the coastline but also has a lot of dead space above and below it. In these areas I will be able to add in all the contents of my magazine. As the sky also has a very little amount of clouds and the sea had no structures of rocks in it both of these areas are perfect for text to be inputted.
The first step is to add in the title and the date of the magazine as this is conventional for a regional magazine. I decided to have the title and any other fixed text that would occur in the magazine in a non bold soft white font. And the only bold font is the month that would change monthly. This gives the text some contrasting and makes them stand out more. I also decided to leave my contents in a lower case font s that it fits my younger target audience better.
Now I needed to fill the contents page up with a lot of content of what will feature inside the magazine. So to start with I was playing around with what font and colour choice I was going to put all my text in so when adding in it I went or a bold+italic style along with a non-bold+soft style font so that they would contrast and I could continue this with the actual ext below. I put the page numbers and the main story in a bold white text and the rest in non bold to add depth to the page.
I continued to do this when adding in my regular sections segment. The only part I changed with this segment is to have one line in bold and the next in a softer font. This was done because there is a lot more text in this segment and you could easily loose track of where you're reading. So by doing this it makes it easier to read and also makes it look more professional.
I added in my final section that I had lined up was the competition section which normally does occur at the end of the magazine. So this is why the page numbers were high so that it indicated that it was the last section for the magazine. As competitors was only one word I decided to have this is a bold and italic font style so that it fitted with the rest of my contents page.
After I added in all my sections I still had some dead space left at the bottom right of my contents page that needed filling. I decided to refer back to some exciting contents pages for regional magazines to see what they use. Some of them have a welcome or editors note so I decided to do this, just a short paragraph is a soft white text to fill up the dead space.
To make it look more professional there was still a couple features that I could add. These features included a portrait of myself whom is the editor white a white boarder around it to make it stand out and to match the colour scheme. Furthermore I also added in my signature as this does occur in many lifestyle magazines additional adding in page numbers in white font. Overall Im happy with how my contents page came out. I believe the white text and colour scheme worked well and gave my contents page a vibrant feeling to it.
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