Contents Construction

I started off creating the fonts for the headings of the contents page. I am happy with the fonts but I will edit the colour scheme as I go on. I also wrote and positioned the editor's letter, the font I used was simple so it was readable. I used a handwritten looking font to sign off the editor's letter to make it look like it had actually be signed. 

When I typed out all the content I came across a problem with the space; I couldn't fit all I wanted two width ways therefore I had to juggle around the headings so they fit in. 

Next I played around with the colour scheme to see which would look best.

I found it hard to work with the layout I originally wanted therefore I switched everything around to see if it would be better. I used my second idea of what I could possibly make my contents look like for inspiration.

I added in a photo but before I could add in the rest of the photos I had to edit them so I used the same photo just to see how the layout would look. At the moment even though the colour scheme needs to be adjusted, I feel that the page looks bare.

I realised that I had the page size with the wrong sizing, once I changed it to A4 I had much more room on the page, this enabled me to be able to bring back the 'You' section.

I decided to add some background boxes, to get a house style I used the same colour pink that I used both on the cover and 'downloading content'. I decided to keep all the boxes the same colour so that it wouldn't look too much and messy. I still can't find a suitable layout especially as now I have all this extra white space.

I tried a new layout that could fill more of the white space. I decided to move the editor's letter so that it wasn't in line with the contents title so it didn't look like it should be read following on from there. With the white space in the bottom right hand corner once I have completed my double page spread I am going to put a little image of that there. Despite doing this I realise that there will still be white space in the middle/top of the page; I am hoping that it comes across as giving a sophisticated and elegant feel rather than empty and boring.

Looking back at my research I noticed that there were the star shaped design elements so I decided to see how it looked; I used the custom shape tool in order to do this. I wasn't sure which colour to use as I didn't want too much pink and the black wouldn't be visible. By also using pink it would mean I would have to change the red. I was going to change the red text to white but I couldn't do this because the background was white therefore half of the text wouldn't be visible.

    
I tried to add in a speech bubble to cover my editor's letter however I struggled with getting the whole speech mark in without it being cut off the page. The problem with the speech mark is that I don't want it to look like that the photo I have on my contents page is the editor.

I thought that this colour scheme was too simplistic therefore I decided that as I wanted to put some yellow on my cover, if I used it on the contents it would create a house style.

To avoid making the speech bubble look like it was coming from one of the people in the photos, I decided to rotate it so it was upside down. I also used my research to add in some design elements. The space left in the bottom right hand corner is going to be filled with a picture of the DPS once it's completed. 

After realising that having a small screenshot of my DPS article was not a convention of magazines I decided to add another picture of Shona which would give yet another teaser of the article with her. I feel that there is still too much white space on this page but I am happy with the use of design elements.