Sketches and analysis of my own ideas for contents page.

As well as doing sketches for my front cover I also did them for my contents page, I used other contents pages as guidance and drew several draft sketches to help me construct my final pieces, here are three of them:

This contents page was my favourite layout of all, as it contains a bold plain “contents” text in order for the readers to identify it is a contents page; therefore it is abiding by conventions as it is being informative. It has a small copy of the front cover in the corner; I got this idea from Q as I thought it added a personal touch to my contents page. It contains several images going down one side of the page as a contents page conventionally has more than one image. It is very informative and lists its features and regular articles in the centre making them easily visible to the read. However I decided to use a pug on this page, however this is unconventional because pugs tend to be on a front cover therefore I added my own twist. Overall I think this is very affective and contains all the information a contents should conventional contain.

This sketch is very unalike the one I choose, instead of using the word contents it uses the words “what’s inside…”, this is aimed at a younger target audience therefore I choose not to use this. It contains the featured and regular articles, which are very conventional of a contents page, however they are spread out a placed diagonally to each other, and this also makes it look as though it’s targeting a younger audience. Finally it only contains a few images which may not appeal to many readers as some readers get put of by huge amounts of text. I also choose to contain a small copy of the front cover in the bottom corner as I liked the idea and feel it add a personal touch to the contents page. Overall I liked this contents draft, however I feel as though it does not target the large audience I am aiming my magazine at.

This sketch of a contents page is very plain as it has a simple title saying contents, at the top of the page like many other contents pages. The featured and regular articles are listed in the centre of the page making them the main attraction to the readers. There are images down both sides of the page making it colourful and fun to attract the reader. Overall this is a very basic contents page and hasn’t got anything that would make it unique, therefore I didn’t like this one as it is boring.