My contents page!

I think to make all of my coursework successful and to make sure I made it the best to my ability I needed to do a lot of research! Especially on music magazines, which I myself did not have a huge interest in!
After doing a lot of research and analysising many contents pages/front covers I knew exactly what I thought made a successful magazine.
I thought the best contents pages I looked at, to make them so successful, included a lot of space!
They were spread out, and each heading or image etc had a lot of space rather than being 'cramped' up.
I decided myself I wanted to include this type of technique to my own magazine, as I wanted my contents page to look professional rather than be overloaded with too much text or images.
I also knew that I wanted to include images on my contents page like you get in a photobooth;

As I wanted to give my reader's that 'unique magazine' feeling! I wanted my readers to be amazed with my front cover, open up my magazine to my contents page and think 'wow, what a unique contents page' and then not know what page to go too as they are so pleased with it! :D

It took me a rather long time to complete my contents page! I kept making changes to it, moving it all around and then not liking any of it! at one point I just got so annoyed I left it a while, and then I came back to it and made a lot of changes, such as I changed my font, colour theme, and added a lot of layer style effects to my heading to make it really stand out.

So far so good! Once I was pleased with the fonts I was using, the image I had put together after editing and moving around and the textual context - all my page names! I then felt it still looked a bit basic! So I wanted to add a line to seperate the image space and the text space!
Once I had placed things where I wanted them to be I was really pleased with how it finally turnt out, even though it had caused me so much stress!

My final contents page!

Overall I am really proud of what I have produced for my contents page. I think the way I have spaced everything out looks really unique. Although I would not say it looks like a normal music magazine contents page, but that is EXACTLY the effect I wanted to have. I wanted to go with a completly new look!
Which as you can see, is why I also included unique headings to my contents page! I want my indie/fashion magazine to be completly different to any other magazine they have seen.
I am also happy with the images I used, and I am glad they are in one long strip which gives them that 'photobooth' feeling.