Contents page Mocks

Contents page Mocks

 

I have now also began to mock up my contents page, I have yet to take the photographs for them and will do so this week, I also want to include a photograph of the school in snow on te contents page.

This is my first contents page mock up:

I don`t excatly like the layout of this page, this is because there are alot of empty spaces around the page which I feel is going to be a waste of space, I could make more use of this space by filling it with smaller photographs or other articles. I feel that I could also fill this space with christmas images; or a christmas border however I feel that this would give the mgazine a student made look and would take away the proffesional look to the rest of the magazine. I would like to use the school logo on the contents page and will do so at the top of the page.

I also only have seven articles, which will not take up very much space at all, I feel that I will have to change alot of this mock up when creating my actual contents page as I feel that there is so much space wasted on this page.

I could use the two spaces at the top of the page; the left one and the right one, and fill these with more christmas images.

 

I have found two images on Google.com, which I used to experiment with what my contents page would look like with photographs on it.

I quite like what my page looks like with the photographs on it, however I am still concerned abput what I am going to do with the spaces at the side. After thinking about this, I have found that I could put the school`s motto on either side;

On the left side I could have it in Latin;

'Altiora Sequamur'

 

Wheras on the right side I could have it in english;

'Aim High'

(This is what it would look like on my contents page;)

I am really starting to like the way my contents page has developed, I am going to keep the idea of having the school motto down the sides to fill the empty space; however I feel that the page still looks quite blank, I feel that I may have to change the colour of the background- However I will change it to a ligh colour (e.g. A light Blue) to stay with my theme as Blue is associated with cold and cold is with christmas, I also feel that this also fits in well with the school, as their main colours include Blue.