School Magazine: Contents Page Plannings

I took the picture that I wished to use for my contents page and I printed it many times. I was planning to design how I would create my contents page by myself.
Firstly I placed the text in the top middle third.

However, I felt that this did not balance the dark image of the girl so this would not be good positioning.

I then put the text laying over the model, however this was hard to see and still did not create a balance.

I then put the text in the top left third and I believe this creates a good balance between the dark model and the dark text, but the text is too close to the edge in this image and must be floated.

 I then placed the text here, but this is floated but too low down so I realised that I has to find a happy medium. I then thought that I could edit the normal layout of the word contents to make the page more interesting. Below I have tried this.

I tried this but I do not like it so I will not use this. Below is my final design that I wish to use with all my design features.