Research and Planning: Re-draft of contents page

The image to my left is the first draft I produced and it's analyses is in a past post. I basically drew the first draft this way as my shattered glass effect took the centre stage in my first cover draft therefore I wanted the glass effect to continue to add fluency however, after I re-designed my cover, the contents didn't suit.

This is my re-design of my contents page which was influenced by the design features I have found from present metal magazines such as Metal Hammer.  I have introduced the heading rectangles on the right hand side as well as the subscription placement in the bottom right of the page. The bottom left corner is where the competition I have posted about will be placed with text surrounding it. The blank white space above the competition will be the main contents image will be placed and possibly a story to be placed over the image.  I still have the masthead dominating the contents page with and added "THIS WEEK" to introduce the contents page.