Preliminary Task - Contents Page

This is our attempt at creating a contents page for a magazine. We decided to keep the same theme and use one picture as the background. We chose a brightly coloured picture of one students artwork as this stood out the most. Mise en scene shows us that brightly coloured photos give people a feeling of happiness and this is what we wanted people to feel when they are reading our magazine. We kept the Astley Cooper logo in the same place on the page to remind people what school the magazine is for and by keeping it in the same place it linked the two pages together and made them look similar. The contents page isn't set out the same as most contents pages from magazines as it is quite simple. This means that it is easy to read and use. It still includes all the codes and conventions of a magazine contents page though. We made it clear to read by putting the page numbers down one side and the names of the pages down the other. This means that it is easy for people to navigate their way through the magazine.