FINISHED CONTENTS PAGE...

After completing my contents page I feel so much more confident on the computer and using the various applications that I have been using such as Fireworks and Photoshop for the details like the subheadings and the actual contents of the page where I've had to create them firstly as an image then use the Magic Eraser Tool to remove the background. Due to this I believe that my skills have improved greatly. This will be good for the career I wish to pursue once i get older. 

My contents page was relatively easy to complete and I really enjoyed making it according to my theme and colour scheme, because it allowed me to be creative and make it more original and use inspiration from various other magazines that I like and that I have looked up to many years such as Kerrang and Rock Sound; I think that this has allowed me to make the magazine much more personal by using music that I actrually listen to, and by putting pictures of people that I know, such as my little brother, the cover model, the band and my friends younger sister.

Comparing my finished contents page with my draft version, I think that I have improved it really well, and now looking back I can see that the 'goldy' yellow colour that I chose for the background really did  not work, and I am glad that I changed it according to my peer assessment.

Now that I have finished my detailed analysis on my contents page, I can compare the draft version to the finished version.

Draft version

Completed contents page

I think that the yellow colour that I chose for my draft doesn't look as good as the darker colours; I wanted to make the back ground darker because I wanted the whole magazine to link together instead of having a contents page that does not link. I noticed this through a comment that my teacher made towards my contents page, simply: "It doesn't look like its part of the same magazine" therefore I changed it accordingly and I am proud with the end result.
I wanted to include the logo from the front of the magazine and on my double page spread to further link the magazine components together, and I think that it worked really well.

Now that I am comparing the draft version to my finished contents page I can see clearly where I went wrong, such as the back ground colour, and the title of the whole page from 'contents' to 'contents page' I think that this highlights the reasoning for the page in the first place, and I am glad that I made the changes that I did, because I think it looks much more official.