These slides above include examples of contents pages and different layouts.

When it comes to making a magazine the two most important things are the cover and the contents, but to help the reader go through the contents page then you would need a way of directing and sorting everything to make it manageable, thus a contents page is needed. A contents page has a list of page numbers and what information is on those pages so the reader can easily go to a certain section they are interested at. I want my content page to have a good balance between images and text but to make make it too busy