Contents page feedback:

I received feedback from my front cover which was really helpful so I decided to do the same for the contents page. Nearly everyone preferred the one image with the articles underneath. Although, I preferred the other one I decided to ask one of my target audience: a male age 17 who listens to indie music. He said that the layout was good but it was difficult to read the headings on the right hand side as they were written in white. So I changed them to black to makes them stand out with a white cover line that does not over power the main text above. I also used flashes either side of the image to fill in the gaps and added a red border around the text and image. This works effectively to block up and separate the different bits, such as the pages are on one side only and the picture and texts are together in a box.

FINAL CONTENTS

However, I didn't personally like the contents page and when I asked another member of my target audience they said that the article was too much and made the contents page boring, whereas if their was other photos that were linked to the pages in the contents page so, I took this into consideration and changed the picture and the article put kept the layout the same. I also changed the red flashes as I thought they looked too bright and didn't go with the rest of the magazines so, I used the darker grey this made it stand out but more subtly.









Here is a member of my target audience commenting on the two contents pages and which one she thought looked better...