This is my comparison between the first and final drafts of my contents page. I think that you can clearly see a difference between both drafts.
To begin with the first thing that has remained the same is the title. I have kept it to be simple and general, "CONTENTs". When talking to my peers they liked how I changed the letters appearance round (as usually you would have the first letter as a capital). They thought that because I hadn't produced a specific title for the contents page they thought it was good that I still tried to make it different. Furthermore I also kept to the same colour as I did want purple to be my main colour on the scheme. It links back to my title as the purple colour is also features on my master head so I wanted to keep the theme throughout the issue.
Another thing that is similar in both issues is the main feature being "Lelia Ray" and having her picture near the top of the page in the centre. As previously exclaimed I did this to showcase how I wanted my artist to the main focus of this issue. When the readers open up the magazine, straight away they can see her and also how there will be a "double page spread" dedicated to her. I decided to keep the same photo as I thought it was an interesting shot that not many other magazines had used. However in my final draft I had edited the photo by making it lighter as I thought that the picture looked very dark and made the background look almost 'miserable'. By doing this lighting effect it made the picture look like I had taken it on a brighter day which conveys Lelias image, being happy and warm to her fans. I then cropped and resized the photo to become smaller so that it was still the main feature, but also I could add in other things as well onto my contents page. I felt like the picture was too big on my first draft and I couldn't include many other photos without making them too small.
However a more noticeable difference on my contents page is the layout of my drafts. In my first draft the layout was very simple and basic and to me didn't seem very inviting for my readers. It was quite dull. So in my final draft, instead of just writing the names of the different artist featured in my magazine I placed an existent photograph of them and put them onto my magazine. I then also changed where the page number would be placed, from being written next to their names to on top of their pictures. I felt like this made the layout look clearer and less messy as before I struggled to keep the numbers in line with each other and at equal length from the writing. I got this idea from researching other professional works like Billboard and NME magazine where they too placed the page numbers on top of the pictures. I thought that this made my magazine more up to date with the modern type of magazines and just kept it organised. When asking my peers they also felt the same.
But I didn't place pictures with all of my cover lines like "Top Ten Albums of 2014" as I thought that my contents page would then look messy again and I wanted to still keep the idea of simplicity for my magazine. So I still decided to include them from my first draft however I placed them in the corners to the side of the page where they weren't the main focal point yet they were still clear to read. I made them bolder and in bigger size font from my original as previously I felt they were too small and my feedback was that they weren't clear enough and difficult to read as they wanted to be able to quickly scan the contents page.
Furthermore to keep the simplicity aspect to my contents page I wanted to keep the white background as not only did it fit in with my colour scheme but also it again complemented the whole aspect of simplicity and keeping it plain. I didn't draft a contents page in another colour as I actually did my double page spread before the contents and tested it out and I decided that I just wanted a white background for most of this particular issue. I feel that I can include more information a experiment more with other colours within the different texts if I have a white background as white doesn't really clash with any colours.
I also kept the + sign as I thought it was an original way of saying and, also and other connective words in order for me to link my different features together. I thought I just add this feature as it was a creative way to connect everything together. However I didn't want to over use this technique as it would take away its effect and also again clutter the page.
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