The Making of the Music Magazine Contents Page

As with the front cover, I made this in Photoshop CS6.
With the contents page, I decided I would begin with a title (simply, "Contents") in a strip across the top of the page. The title would be in the same font as the masthead, so the strip must be a colour that isn't red (so the text can be the same recognisable red with the texture as the masthead was).

From here, I then added the images I decided I would used. For one image, I cropped out the background, as it didn't seem to fit with the rest of the contents page. For all the images, I added a subtly stroke effect to make them "stand off" the page slightly.

From here I decided to caption each image with their page number and a brief sentence about what the article covers. I placed a caption over the image I decided to relate to the double page spread that reads "EXCLUSIVE" just as I had a cover line that said exclusive across it.

Having captioned the images and laying them out how I wanted them, I decided to start adding in contents, using the 3 headings I had decided on in the research stage; Features, News and Interviews. I also added a small pug-like feature telling readers where to find the competition to make it convenient for readers.