Before beginning to design my own contents page it was important to do some research into other examples of contents pages in music magazines. A contents page highlights what’s featured in the magazine and clearly lays out what’s where so the magazine is easy to navigate.

Some technical conventions of a contents page are:

• Page numbers
• Hyperbole and superlatives in headlines to get the reader hooked
• Image/s
• Graphic illustrations and designs
• Reminder of the magazine’s name and mission statement
• Fonts and a colour scheme coherent with the rest of the magazine
• The editors hello
• It is most often situated on the page 3 of the magazine and is only across a single page

Below are some ideas for layout designs of my contents page and a few catchy headlines: