Positives and Negatives of the cover page and contents page

I feel that the postitives of the magazine title page and the contents page would be that they both carry out the same housestyle. I also like that on the title page, how the image has been cut around and put onto the gradient blue background goes well.

I do prefer the title page as the contents page is quite blank in the background and if i had more time, i would adjust this and use a gradient or put the image somewhere in the background as a whole. I think the title is quite strong, as in the black back colour,  on both the contents page and the main cover, because i think it is quite harsh against the rest of the colour themes and this is something i would take into consideration next time by either changing the background, the seasonal theme of the background colour or change the background colour of the title. The reason i chose black was because the yellow and pink went well in contrast to it and made it stand out.