Preliminary Contents Page

This is my contents page for my school magazine which I also created on photoshop. I also feel like this isn't a very successful contents page, like the front cover it is very boring and bland and has nothing to it. To start off with, the main headline 'Contents' is boring i used a very simple font and this does not draw the reader into reading the magazine. There are no effects what so ever on this page, and looks again like a poster. I only have one picture and its not even clear because I took it of an already existing photo round the school of the head boy and the light in the background reflected onto the image leaving white circles on the image. I never got the time to get more than one image for my contents page as it was hard to get them for my page headlines. I Also thought the contents page is too white it needs more colour, to improve this i could have made the whole background blue and put better effects on it to make the background have a tint of white in it, then made the headline black and bold and use a drop shadow to make it stand out. But I didn't know how to use photoshop properly when making th preliminary product, therefore I did not progress on this. I also dislike the way my content page has been set out with the numbers and headlines all boring and in one colum, it doesn't have anything to it, even if i used a more interesting font it could have made the contents page look better overall. Yet again this does not grab the readers attention it is way too boring I could have improved this contents page in many ways even if just adding alot more photos on the right hand side can completely turn the magazine around. However yet again not everything is bad on the contents page for example I do like the fact that i have the page number reference in blue this makes it easier to find the number your looking for and it always goes with the colour scheme which is blue as I have a blue band at the top of my contents page, also the way its set out is like a school magazine so its not serposed to be the most eyecatching magazine that will be on shelves and needs to be bought. I also like the blue band the word 'Contents' is writen on, if I made the font better and used better effects on it then I think thats all the title would need to draw the reader in, as it also goes well with my front cover showing it is from the same magazine as the title has a blue box around it.
If i was to make this better i would change the layout of it have more exciting effects and eyecatching images, also have a blue background to make the whole effect of the magazine not to seem to plain. Even changing small features like having better fonts that are not so simple as the one i used here could change the whole view of the product.