Contents Page - First Draft: Initial thoughts

-  Okay so firstly I am quite pleased with this first draft because I have kept in line with the magazine theme and house-style and I do like some of the features that I used and developed of existing contents pages within my chosen genre which I will get into more detail of in a short while...
I did use VIBE magazine's famous relocation and sectioning of the word CONTENTS and placed it in the top left corner of my page. Since I had already gone against other typical magazine conventions such as a plain white backdrop in my front cover, I figured there would be no harm whatsoever in continuing to break the unwritten rules of magazine contents page law. All jokes aside after doing my research I was fully determined to make sure that I did not place any text or information on top of my talent in the photo - in my previous post I outlined all the things that I disliked about a particular VIBE magazine contents page and the text overlapping the image was one of those things.
In the bottom right corner I created a logo for the title of my magazine RENEGADE so that I would not have to actually write the title and risk making my contents page look like a front cover!

I wanted to make the text stand out - as this is the most important element of a magazine... however in my next contents creations I will ensure that I do not place my text in a format like the one above because I feel as though it may be confused for a front cover rather than a contents page.