The document describes the steps taken to produce the contents page for a magazine. It involves: 1) Creating the initial layout in Quark Express with three columns for text and images. 2) Adding text boxes and experimenting with font sizes to fit the content on the page. 3) Importing images and adding a graphic advertisement. 4) Adjusting font sizes, colors and positioning of elements.

1. Production Process
CONTENTS PAGE

2. Step 1
 To begin with I opened
up a new project using
Quark Express.
Following the codes and
conventions I created
three columns for my
contents page.

3. Step 2
 I began creating text
boxes and writing up the
contents. I had to
experiment with
different font sizes so
that my text filled the
page but didn’t fill too
much of the contents
page allowing space for
images etc.

4. Step 3
 After rearranging the
layout of the page to fit
accordingly and adding
all the text, I then
imported my images and
created a graphic feature
with an advertisement.

5. Step 4
 I then changed the font
size and colour of page
numbers and adjusted
space and positioning.

6. Step 5
 I decided that a white
background was too
plain and so utilised a
background colour fro
the contents page,
however I decided the
colour red was
inappropriate to my rock
genre and felt my content
images didn’t get across
the genre.

7. Step 6
 Here I edited a
photograph I had taken
and used it in my
contents page. I then
changed the colour of my
background to black as it
made a bolder statement
and connoted rock. As
well as this it gave my
contents page an exciting
and statement look.

8.  I then began
experimenting with
different layouts and
decided that I wanted
images to dominate one
side of the page. I felt
that there was too much
writing dominating the
three columns.

9.  From this I decided to
restrict the text into two
columns. I added a
graphic feature behind
the regular and feature
title to make it stand out
but choose the colour
green to keep the style of
a rock genre magazine. I
also enlarged the page
numbers.

10.  I then decided the top of the
page was too spacious and
after looking at other rock
magazines I found they were
full of images and text and in
effect looked very crammed.
Because of this I pushed the
text down the page and added
the mast head to follow codes
and conventions and also put
the website and date and issue
number at the top of the page.
As well as this I began to put
graphic features for the page
numbers in the corner of my
images.