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What has changed:

• removed any imperfections on my main image
• added an editorial and contact details to complete the page
• added larger line specing in between the articles on the blue section
• changed ‘Last chance: Beyonce’
• made the blue words letters further apart to increase readability

What remains:

• add colour to the main image to fit with the genre and stand out on the page
• decide on a final colour scheme and change on here and the rest of the mag so it all links in

I asked for some feedback from my friends on my new contents page, and asked them these questions:

• How does the contents page work in tandem with the front cover?
  • Is the font/typeface consistent with the front cover?
  • What genre of music is the contents page featuring?
• Describe the images of the stars using adjectives.
• Which cover-lines tempt the audience to read on and which ones stand out and why?
• How do the cover-lines reflect a music magazine? If they don’t,  which ones need to be adapted?
• Which areas, aspects have distracting areas of integration of copy and images?
• What aspects do you consider conventional or unconventional? (page numbers, inserts, captions, catchy cover lines, editors comment)

Feedback and targets:

• the same fonts are used – can tell the two pages are linked together
• change the colours on the front page to link it to contents page
• the colours used on contents page are very bright and reflect the pop genre
• my star looks: confident, intelligent, knows what she’s doing, a very up-lifting person
• ‘Charity campaign’ – very wholesome, reflects the modern day audience, young people want to make a change – appealing to a teenage audience
• like the highlighted words – brings attention to the articles
• ‘gossip’ – trendy vocab, modern, reflects target audience
• the blue box with the black writing – could make the writing a bit bigger or change the font or change the colour to white – then highlight section headers to make them stand out again
• make the images inside the numbers more obvious – can’t really tell who is inside them
• the shapes and layout is conventional to the pop genre
• confused where to look first – lots of information