Making my contents page - text

This is my contents page so far...

I have copied the layout, sizes and colours of the text but changed what it actually says to make it relevant to my school magazine.

Now I need to take some pictures to put on the right hand side.

I have found this contents page and i think it would work really well for my school magazine contents page.

I like the bold images and the curved edges make it a bit more interesting. Also the writing is easy to read and straight forward, so finding the page you are looking for would be easy.

I will take some of my own photos and then try to make my own version of this page using photoshop. 

Looking at contents pages

Now I need to make a contents page for my school magazine...

I have been looking on google for examples of contents pages I liked. These are some of them.

I chose them because the layouts are interesting and bold.

I don't think either of these would really work for a school magazine though. I think there should be some colour too because my front cover is colourful.

Making my Magazine cover - adding the image

Here is my final version of my JCG magazine cover, with the picture put in behind the text I had already made.

This is the picture I took of Jo and Claire for my magazine cover image.

Making my Magazine cover - text

For the past few lessons I have working on replicating the teen vogue cover that I chose, but using my own text ideas.
Today I have finished the layout of the cover, all I need to do now is take my own picture for the background.

I'm really pleased with the way I have been able to copy the layout so far because it looks really similar, although there were a few fonts which I could not find.

Looking at magazine covers

I have chosen these two Teen Vogue covers because i think that they would be really good examples to base the layout for my school magazine cover on.
My favourite one is the picture at the top, so i will try to replicate that layout using photoshop.

I have to make a JCG magazine cover. Today I have decided to look at front covers from Vogue instead of NME because I think the layouts will be more appropriate to copy, for a girls school magazine, because they are mostly smarter and simpler.

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2.I really prefer the first image to the second one although both of them are simple and effective. I think there are too many people in the second image which means it is not as striking.

I like the simplicity of the first picture as well as the colours. But for a school magazine i think it would be too close up so i need to look for a different cover to base mine on.

Today i was looking at front covers of music magazines. I was mainly looking at NME magazine.

I picked some of the pictures that i liked.

I like this picture because it is simple but effective. I think simple pictures on magazine covers can be more effective because they are bolder and more eye catching. It is also bold because it has only 3 main colours; black red and white.

I liked this picture for the same reasons. It has the same bold colour scheme and simple layout.