Sketching My Contents Page 20/3/16

Before I started creating my magazine contents page on inDesign, I decided to produce a rough sketch of my initial idea. This is a helpful way of seeing how the text shall fit alongside the images, gives me an understanding of font and image size and whether or not the layout will look effective overall. By only drawing the fames without writing at this stage, I can see if the layout will be suitable for the amount of text I desire to write. Additionally, by including small figurine drawings in the style of shot I would like to take, I can see if they look visually pleasing and suit the page.

As my front cover is fairly simple, I wanted to make my contents page more striking with a lot of text, numerous images and creative layout. I have therefore decided to have a large variety of stories. I am going to include 2 images and a subscription box advertising the magazine. I really like the idea of having black dotted line separation bars as they help to split up the page and look effective as the text and images are in there own sections.

Furthermore, I have chosen this layout as Mojo used a similar layout to this with the writing down the left hand side and image on the right. This convention is sophisticated and adds a sense of structure and formality. I think that a large arrow with 'contents' written inside it will look very striking and act as a luring device for readers to read on. I want to have small pieces of text and images that strengthen the brand identity of my magazine such as city names where the magazine has been most influential.