Contents page for music magazine - evaluation

To summarise, my contents page has been a success and judging from the feedback I recieved on Facebook, it looks like it could be a real contents page which would be sold in most magazine shops around the country. In my opinion, I think that the contents page works well considering the difficulty of creating something original yet unique. It still includes all of the conventional features like taglines, issue number, date and a title, however there are specific conventions which it challenges and many of the features included benefit from this. Like the front cover, I decided to use the transparrent box effect for the title of each article as it makes it stand out and look appealing to the reader. Ease of navigation is also increased as the spacing between each piece of text is appropriate. On this page, I went for a certain colour scheme for the rest of the pages to follow. This was: blue, red and white. Ironically these are the colours of the Union Jack which adds a 'homely' feel towards the magazine. These colours also blend very well with each other and don't look out of place when put side by side. One feature which links with this is the red stamp in the bottom left hand corner of the page. I included this so that it gave the page a 'real' appeal and that it looked like it was very experienced. This also worked well with the editors section which I wrote as it 'tied up the loose ends' and made that section of the page look more presentable. Finally, I should mention the main image at the top of the page. This could be seen as the most detailed image in the whole of the magazine as I had to take two different pictures and then merge them together. One of me on a stool and one of a guitar hero guitar I own. I then put these into the landscape and manipulated myself onto the bench so that it looked like I was actually there. This did not challenge my Photoshop skills however it is a very effective technique and helps to increase the verismilitude of an image. Additionally, I used a colour replacement tool to make the sky and mountains grey and make the grass a more vibrant green. I did this because I thought that it added depth to the image and made it look much more appealing. Here is an image of the contents page: