First draft of contents page

Here is one of my drafts for my contents page. I have not included anything in the news, reviews and features yet because I will design my front cover first, this will allow me put the sell lines on my contents page. I have looked at a typical indie magazine and I prefer the first contents page shown below, it looks modern and can be targeted at a higher age range than my draft. Although I do like the colour scheme of my draft it will look a lot simpler if it was black and white with many images. I had

some feedback and people said that it doesn't fit my target audience as it looks like it is aimed for the younger generation. They like the image that I have used and they also like the font however they think that the main text looks like snow. The black and white lines below the main text does not fit with the other images and it overlaps the other text. I do like the 'Top 10 Indie Tracks' as it will attract the reader as it will be one of the first things that they will see in the magazine. I will change the 'This week' to one side as the top 10 indie tracks will look better in a straight line. In the NME contents page that I looked at I saw the band index down the side which made me think of making the top 10 indie tracks. Also the news, reviews and features is the style that I had on my draft, this does look good however it is a bit simplistic. I will try to recreate my contents page and try to add more pictures to make it look modern, also the numbers on the pictures allow it to look clearer and easier to to follow

the magazine. With each picture there is a clear piece of text to show you what exactly is going to be on the page which I do like.