Contents page visual layouts

Above are the visual front covers I have come up with for my contents page. Five out of the six designs have the masthead covering the top of the page, this is because I want the masthead to be seen the first on the page. However, one of these designs I have not placed my masthead at the top, instead I have put it covering the left side of the page, the main reason I wanted to do this is to experiment with not using the conventional magazine layout of having the masthead at the top. On every design I have put space for text on the page, in my final contents page I need to include text as the whole idea of a contents page is to inform the reader what stories or topics are in this issue of the magazine. From my research I have found out that a good contents page has the right ratio of text to images, all of these designs I think I have accomplished this as there is a lot of text or images on the page by doing this it will inform the reader without losing the readers attention. The bottom right design I believe is my best design and I am most likely to use this on my final piece. This design is perfect for a school magazine because the page is divided from text to images and a starburst, as a result this makes it professional because every aspect of the contents page has its own part of the page so the reader knows where to look on the page for information.