Organisation: How to Improve my contents page

I have recently finished my front cover, contents page, and double page spread for my music magazine LGM. However it was clear that the contents page was my weakest element so I have looked at  Q's contents pages to help me improve mine.

  This is my contents page for LGM. I have used a good colour scheme and pictures as well as used good fonts. However there are some errors on here. The most basic error I made was not including Glastanbury 2015 review, and Katy Perry's interview (which was on my front cover) in the contents as I focused to much on my made up stars. Secondly my fonts are a bit big and need trimming down, and this makes it all look packed in and crammed which I wanted to do but use a better effect. Finally I think I need a better shot of my main interview Jake. I think a mid shot would work well here with the prop as the long shot makes him look stretched out.








This is a contents page from Q magazine which I am basing LGM magazine on. As you can see there are some similarities with the main interview taking up much of the page to imply it the main interview. Also the colours are similar as are the boxes which single each category. However Q use much smaller fonts then me which helps the fits more around the image of Adele and make her the star.  It is also separated a lot more equally which each category getting an equal amount of space making it easy to read, also the fact that some boxes have a grey background makes it look very effective and I will contemplate using this on my real contents page.










CONCLUSION
In conclusion I think it is clear that my contents page needs a lot of work to be anywhere near as good as Q's. I am going to keep to the style Ive set of the main interview taking up the page and the colour scheme. However I will make my font size smaller, to accommodate more room and equal category. I will also contemplate using a coloured background in a box for the 'features' bit to make it look more professional and effective. I will cut out the basic errors I made in this draft and include everyone in the contents, but for me the biggest change I need to make is either using a mid shot or a close up, as Q have done, of the main cover star before basing everything around that image. This blog has helped me a lot and has let me make a plan on how to improve my contents page when it comes to the real thing.