Preliminary Contents Page

I first started off producing my school magazine's contents page by creating it in Microsoft Publisher. From here, I created the grey background and added the title 'Contents Page' to the top to make it clear, which can be seen at the top of the image above. I then thought about what stories I could feature that would be school-related and would feature in a normal school magazine. That's when I thought of the four story titles above. I have interpreted the stories into a few words that the reader will be able to see and attract them, wanting them to know more.

 I furthered this by adding the number of the page it would be on in bright red so the reader is able to see it, and navigate their way to the page in order to read it. I used these specific school-related stories as they are things that pupils would like to find out the most about, and also they sound very interesting and catch the eye of the typical pupil target audience. I think I can improve my contents page by adding images to it, and also using much more bright, attractive colours to make the reader want to read more. Also I could have much more interesting and appealing headlines so they actually want to read what's inside and not be bored by the uninteresting headlines such as what's 'New to the School!'.

By Harry Luke Mulvany