Kinetic Force

Drawing up the table of contents (TOC) was quick and easy, as my piece was heavily inspired by WDW Magazine's TOC. Actually morphing it into reality was where the trouble was. I did change one of the pictures, like I said in my last post, but the layout stayed the same. I even kept most of the titles and page numbers from the mock-up. The hardest part was making it so that the captions on the pictures were in a place that would not obscure the main image. After trial and error, I found the perfect place for the text that held the caption in the trusty, modern Biko font. I placed a white border around the pictures to allow them to pop a bit more and to separate it from the black background, The "More Scares...." text was originally meant to be aligned to the left but ended up looking better in the middle. It became more of a division between pictures and text like I intended in the first place. I also used iTC Willow font again as it creates the perfect creepy aura....

In terms of layout, not much changed from the drawing board to the final product of my table of contents. I kept the four pictures with a caption at the top in the same format and I kept the bottom half of the page the same ("More Scares...", the page number, and the title of the article on that page). The pictures I put in mirrored what I wrote on my planning sheet, except for one picture. I felt the frame box would be too small for one of the pictures I originally wanted so I chose another. I took inspiration from WDW Magazine's table of contents layout but I made it much darker in appearance to fit my theme of Halloween opposed to WDW, which is meant to be clean and friendly. I kept the black background I originally noted that I had wanted, but it felt too plain when it was just a dark background. Like I had done with my feature spread, I put a blood splatter in the back to give it a pop of color and to coincide with the spooky Halloween theme. To keep with the ...