Contents Creation

This contents page is from Kerrang! magazine. I have attempted to imitate the design to follow guidelines and try to create a professional looking contents page.


Breaking down the contents:
>Inside the magazine
- Feedback
-News
-Live Reviews
-Features
-Album Reviews
-Gigs

These tags are on the right hand side of the magazine in a colomn. The headings have been distorted and placed inside a rectangle that has been filtered and had its transparency altered (using page plus tools) to make them look more appealing for the reader.

This Kerrang! contents page uses more than one way of displaying their contents, with their representation of images of the bands that are also to feature inside the magazine. These images are underlined by a caption of where they will be inside the magazine.

The colours of this contents page are reversed so that dark colours are placed on lighter colours to create a contrast to make the text stand out from the background. (The black text on the white background.

Beneath the contents column is a subscription section, which is inside a logo. This logo has been created by taking images of previous magazines and binding them together. Text presses over the logo in white, to create a contrast and make the text stand out.

The title 'contents' has been printed in a bold and sightly flattened font which has then been coloured in yellow, based on a black rectangle at the bottom right hand side of the page.

This is the result from conforming to this Kerrang! contents page. This contents page uses exatly the same layout.

The Kerrang! contents page did not use an image as a background (in which alot of other music magazines have done) instead they gave it a white background. Also this is a simple background, it really complements the design and makes it almost effortless to read. Never the less, i have chosen to use an image to replace the white background. I believe this 'grunge style' background helps bind the contents page together, it makes the page feel more full.

I have copied the idea of a subscription, so i created a logo using 'Fireworks' and positioned this in the top left of the magazine. As this is a metal themed magazine, i used this genre to influence the design. (see post #3 for design creation)

Beneath the 'contents' is a quote from 'The used', i have used used a quote from 'Metallica' which is from a quote site - www.allmetallica.com/info/quotes.php