Production Log 4

The contents page above follows examples from Mojo and Rock Sound magazine, as seen in this blog: http://danbmedia.blogspot.com/2010/02/post-planning-new-ideas.html
For my contents i struggled to find relevant features to include on it, the contents page above is very bare because of this. Admittedly, the page does seem pretty basic but this is because i felt as though this would be too cluttered, and based on my audience research, my target audience does not like pages that are too cluttered. Originally i intended for the "features" section to beon a slant, but i felt as though this looked bad adjacent to the straight "regulars" section.

My complete contents page is the one above. Since the contents page at the top of this post, i have included numerous features which back the page look far less bare. I changed the "features" section so that it was no longer on a slant and straight like the section alongside. I had intended to include a "note from the editor" style section since the early stages of planning and so this was a must for my contents page. Within the note from the editor section i have included a mini image of the front cover, which i think connotes professionalism. To include this section i needed to shrink the main image down from its original size so as to fit the section in. The red and black bars leading into the note from the editor is a "next week" segment, this was a last-minute idea which i included because the page still seemed bare, this part only lists the names of bands that will be featured in next weeks issue, looking back on this i feel as though i should change that to "This week" as oppossed to "next week". In the top left and bottom right corners of the page are simple techniques used to fill space, this idea waws given to my by a colleague in the class, and i believe that they really do fill the space well.