To start my contents page I Started off with a background and added a black text box with the rectangle tool to create a layer for my title ('contents') to be placed upon in order to make it stand out. I then created another rectangle beneath the contents to hold the date. I made this rectangle yellow so it would fit in with the mise en scene of the magazine as the front cover contained yellow text. This meant that my magazine would follow a house style. I also added the web address at the top of the page to help fill up any negative space.
Next, I added the page numbers making sure that the numbers went from a range of 0-200 as that is the usual range of a conventional magazine contents page. I also added a page number at the bottom of the contents page as this is a conventional feature of a magazine.
I continued to add to the contents page by adding sub headings to section off and split up the categories in the magazine. This makes it easier for my demographic to navigate their way around the magazine. Underneath the sub headings I have included a total of 16 article titles in which the reader of the magazine can quickly and easily access and read a snippet of what that specific page includes as i added a short, punchy description of each page.
To help separate each article title and help keep the text neat and aligned I added small breaks in the page in the form of a line of dots. This simple feature helps the readers eyes to split the
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