Contents page flat plan

I created this flat plan of my contents page after reviewing all of my research on successful music magazines which are currently doing well on the market. I cooperated some of my findings into my own contents page.

I used the conventional looking title for the page as in my opinion it makes the page look professional and tidy. It also helps make the page easier to use for the audience as they can see straight away what the page is going to be about. I will put the title in a large bold font which will assist it in fulfilling its purpose of standing out to the audience and attracting them to the page.

I have incorporated my research from Rolling Stones magazine with the use of the bar of cover line images and corresponding page numbers in the corner of the image as I believe this would be an effective feature and will be successful in making the main articles stand out to the audience and help them navigate to the appropriate pages. The use of these various images will also attract the target audience to the page an will appeal to them as they are quite young they may not be very highly educated which means the images will give tem an instant idea on what the article is going to be about.

I have also selected an appropriate location for the body text as it is in a conventional location on the right hand side of the page so that the audience will be firstly attracted to the images then move their eyes left to look at the text.

I included a competition at the bottom of the page as this will allow the audience to feel more involved with the magazine and with the artist in which the competition involves. I added a sub image to this section to back up the text and to help assist the text in attracting the audience to the section and to the competition.