Final draft for contents page

Here is my final draft for my contents page I am really happy as compared to my last draft it is very different and in a good way. It does look a lot more professional and looks like something you would actually see inside a magazine. As you might be able to see I did use NME's contents page as inspiration and this allowed me to create a more detailed contents page that I believe is more engaging to the reader. It did take me longer to create as it was more complicated however it was worth it as I am pleased with the result. I did use pixlr again as it is the best website in my opinion to allow me to create a well developed contents page. I also used google images as I only managed to take pictures of my model Noel rather than live bands and other people, therefore I did have to use famous bands and people to make my contents page more varied. When I decided to use the NME contents page as my inspiration I did think that I would need to take more pictures however I did want various images and I knew that I was not going to a live gig in the time that I needed to create the contents page. 
Firstly I changed the title of the page to 'Inside this week' which makes it more personal as I think using the word 'contents' reminds me of a book and doesn't really scream magazine to me therefore I looked for other ways of creating a less obvious way of putting it. I did like 'inside EN(ORE' however I thought that using the title of the magazine again could get very repetitive and with it already being on the page for the subscription I tried to steer away from that. I do think that the title is a bit vague and I could add a little more punctuation for example I could have 'Inside this week!' or 'Inside this week...' I will ask this to my target audience and see wether they agree with me. Also I could make each of the words begin with a capital letter so it makes it more important as it is the title of the page, I do think that it is the right size to have on the top of the page and it is in the right area. In my last draft I had some of the writing vertical on the page which looked appealing but was harder to read. My target audience did say that I should change this to make it easier to read that is why I changed it. I decided to keep the same font as my masthead for the front cover as then it sticks to the house style also I think if I changed it then it would look messy, in my first draft I overlapped the font to make it look 3D however people said it looked like snow which I thought was not a good thing so I kept to one layer. 
Now on to the images. Firstly you might of noticed I have changed my main image from the long shot to a head shot as I believe that it looks more effective and works well with the other images on the page. I didn't edit the image as I thought it looked good without any thing being done to it, also the shadow connotes hiding something or in this case telling EN(ORE about a secret that she has never told someone before. I needed to make the image bigger than the other ones which was hard as it was an odd shape, if I placed it to the edge of the page then it would lose the effectiveness of the photo as it is not the first thing that the reader would see. Although I placed the image in the middle it made it tricky to make the images fit without them being to small to see. Each of the other images I picked from google and resized them around my main image. I didn't pick each of these for anything in particular but I did some research before and looked which indie groups and people were in at the moment, they were the chosen ones. The purple block of colour was also a picture from google as it was easier to add an image on pixlr than to make one by using the letter l. On each of these images I decided to put the number on the picture as it would be easily seen as if it was me I would rather look at the pictures than the text. To do this I used the letter l and rotated it to fit the image and then applied the number in the same font as my front cover. The only one that I was not sure about was for the album cover of Florence and the machine as it was covering the writing of the album cover. 
For the fonts I used exactly the same as the front cover so the house style is throughout the magazine, they are all quite clear so easy to read and all of them go well with each other. I kept the writing to black and white as it basic and can work with everything. Lastly I kept the + sign as my target audience said that it would work well if I used it throughout my magazine so I have made it work on the contents page. With putting it above the articles that are in the magazine monthly it can work well as it will be a key design feature. Im also glad that they are all in line, I chose to put the numbers underneath so it makes it look less like a book and also putting them there adds more information on the page and fills the page.