Drafts of my contents page

When creating my contents page I looked at typical contents pages made my well known music magazine companies such as NME and Q. The more I went on the more stereotypes I added to create a realistic and professional looking contents page. At first as you can see in the first image I only chose to use one image but later decided it would look better with another photo I had taken recently whilst at a concert. The more I drafted my contents page the more I began to understand the conventions and stuck with the typical neat and simple layout. I also later discovered having an image of my front cover also on the contents page in link with subscribing to the magazine itself was a good idea as well as a puff/plug to catch the readers eye. I had a clear idea at the beginning of producing my contents page of the colours, layout and font types I wanted so when drafting I didn't need to play about with these too much.