Music Magazine Final Contents Page - 'Press PLAY'

This is my final contents page for my magazine issue, 'Press PLAY'. The developments made from my previous draft published a few days ago are the finishing off of my listed contents, alongside the addition of what I decided would fill the bottom-right corner gap most efficiently - an editorial. I decided on this as it was probably the strongest of my choices that I could potentially insert into the available slot rather than a larger and more repetitive further abundance of contents or anymore images. An editorial is crucial to success in a magazine issue and due to the task assigned being the publishing of a cover and a double page spread along with this piece, the editorial would without doubt fit most naturally into a contents page out of the three. I used the basic feather and outer glow effects within the gradient tool on Adobe InDesign for the edited box, which maintains the colour scheme throughout the entire magazine features; this is simultaneous with the font used - 'Charcoal'. This is used on the entire contents page aside from the page numbers, which I thought would look a slightly more creative design with the 'Minion Pro' font, complementing the overall design. As opposed to my last piece's 'collage' layout with photographed blocks filling the page accompanied by numbering and a limited amount of text, this in my view appears more tidied up and aesthetically pleasing. There is no over-crowding and the structure appears more organised, with a solitary image and the editorial placed on one side of the page, leaving a large path to list the main contents. Other improvements and alterations that I have highlighted are explained in my previously published draft contents page post. A final point I'll make is the content displayed and advertised throughout the numbered list spread down the left-hand column. As the target audience is a more generic aim towards teenagers and young adults - the stereotypically more interested age range in the current charts - the roots of the magazine features are modern and relatable to today's 16-25 generation. However, there are different spins put on the genre of the magazine, with teen music, the mod era and references to advanced studios and social media such as Twitter fluctuating between the present day and some of the rejuvenated past eras, spanning music and other topics such as sport and fashion.