Music Magazine Contents Page Draft Progress

Unfinished so far, but this is the progress I am currently making with my updated contents page. I am basing this page on an entirely different style to my last contents page, and in my opinion, like my front cover, this is considerably tidier and uses less page-loading imagery, thus making the page less crowded.

I feel that my previous piece was too crowded, which was a sacrifice I had to make following my idea to lay the page out in a 'collage' style, with images of different sizes pasted across the page leaving limited availability for writing. Although I think the idea itself was useful and reasonable to work with, I feel that it made the page look rather unprofessional and maybe even slightly tacky and over-colourful. As opposed to last time out, I have taken on a more relaxed and in my view more aesthetically pleasing layout to work with, including complementing shades such as black and white with the primary theme colour, green. I have based this on a number of different contents pages I have seen in published magazines which combine this relaxed feel with the withstanding ability to convey all details required such as page numbers and subheadings. I have taken a useful portrait photo which is included to promote the cover feature of the particular edition of the magazine, and the column spread down the left accompanies it well. There will be spare room available in the bottom-right corner of the page, which as yet I am still deciding how to fill up. Initial ideas include further contents to other minor features; a couple more photos relevant to the page or a brief editorial.