Drafts: contents page & double page

this is my rough layout draft for my contents page.
I chose the idea of basing my contents on NME magazines thirds layout.

in the left third i wanted a band index with a list of band included in my magazine in the left third, a 'band index', somewhat similar to the one included in NME magazine.

In the center i wanted to have one main article with its details below and at the bottom of the center i could have a subscription details box with a front page screengrab on it. At the top of the center i chose to put the title of the page as 'CONTENTS' for simplicity for the reader, although i did not include my logo as i did not see it as necessary at the present time.

In the right third i chose to include some important sub articles under 4 headings: News, Reviews, Live and PLUS(anything else that is music related but doesn't relate to one specific band) this idea was also ripped out of Kerrang and NME.

Overall i chose this style as my audience  is of a working class background in which simplicity and an easy to navigate contents page would appeal to them.
I did not add colour to this draft as i had not conducted my colour research for my audience so i did not know what colours would be implemented for the best effect

This is my rough layout draft for my double page spread.
I attempted to implement the idea of a 60/40 picture to text ratio for easy to read,smaller chunks of text.

on the left third of my two pages i  had one main picture covering half of the length of the page and one third of the page. this was to attract attention of the readers by the best, most action filled shot i took at the gig.
The bottom half of the left third contains one column of text, and one row leading off of this column. Also there is two sub pictures next to the column of text so that the readers can look at these pictures when they are noticed in the text or mentioned.

In the center third of the two pages i had two conjoined columns of text which contained the main chuck of text split by the page breaking, which meant that the text flowed into the next box so readers attention was kept on the main text. Also, above the text columns is the title of the page 'Your Demise' i split the two words between the pages but they were conjoined so that they knew who they were reading about.

On the right third of my two pages, half of the right third was to be filled with sub pictures for the main article so that after reading they can look at the pictures related to the article. On the other half of the right third in the upper section was a small album cover and the secondary text(the album review). As this is not the main focus of the double page spreads article i put it in the top right corner so that it doesn't get caught up in the reading of the main article. Below this is two sub pictures related to the album review.

All these ideas originally came to me in the idea that i wanted a simple amount of text and more pictures as my audience is lower class, which means they don't want to just be reading text, also they are young and less sophisticated than 30+ year old adults (16-25 white males is my age and gender range) so more pictures would be more appealing to them.