Contents productionThis is a draft I made of how I desire my contents page to like.

I'm putting the mastheads in the left top hand, though it may be formal to put the them in the left my argument is that this is the first part of a page people look at and I want them to know what page it is straight away.

I’m putting a logo in the right hand corner so there is a link between this page and the contents page.

The text is on both sides to make the page look less like a list. The text is in a column to make it look neat and presentable.

With my contents page I'm not following the popular convention of the picture taking up the majority of the page. I am doing the complete opposite of the pictures taking a third of the page but with there being four different picture right in the middle people will be attracted. The pictures are slanted to make it look like a photo album making it look more attractive.

Step 1

I tried creating my masthead in Photoshop but then analysing my work afterwards I realised it did not look professional , so then…

A)B)

C)

Step 2… I used InDesign!

I started by typing

out each individual

letter.

Step 2

… I used InDesign!

I started by typing all the letters out.

I used the selection tool to move letters around

With there being boxes around each, it is easier to align the letters making it look more neater

And this is the result

At first I wanted the masthead to be yellow this turned out looking childish and not a colour appropriate for my genre.

This is me using my initial ‘godfather’ text as I wanted to make a link between the front page and contents.

When writing at first my text although aligned across the page, it was not equally spaced out. So to help with this I inserted columns.

Despite my research showing me that most of the time the text is on one side and the main picture on the other. I wanted the picture to be central giving it central stage and spread the texts out to both sides so that it would not be overwhelming.

Here is the result of inserting columns, which makes the contents appear more presentable and professional.

Then I soon discovered another problem where although I was able to proportionally arrange my text vertically, I was struggling with making it horizontally in line.