Analysis 1:Contents Page

After analysing five front covers of music magazines, i am now doing the same for five music magazine contents pages. This will help me broaden my knowledge of the structure and conventions of a contents page to help with ideas for my own.

This magazine's contents page is split into different sections by bold black lines. These blocks all contain an image to show what is featured in the magazine. The images of Frank Skinner and Bill Callahan have a transparent background. The Frank Skinner image overlaps into the next content but this doesn't make it look messy it actually makes it look professional and neat. I love the fact that Q have done this and i would like to include this in mine for at least one image on my contents page.

Each feature stands out as the artists name uses a large bold font and uses the colour black. this helps the audience spot out straight away which stories they would like to read. In my own contents page I would like to give the same effect on the reader so that they can see what articles they would like to read straight away. If i do this i will make sure the font and colour is different to this issue of the magazine's contents page.

The colour scheme used in this contents page is the house style of the magazine which is red, black and white. The majority of text is written in a black font which stands out on a clear white background. The images on the pages provided a lot of bright colours to this page, therefore no other colour is needed. The circular page numbers are effective as they add a little colour to the page, and they sand out well as a large text size is used. For my magazine i would like to use the house style colours used on my front cover like this one does, i will make sure that the page numbers stand out by making them a large text size, i may also use different colour on them to add a little diversity to my house style.

Each feature of the magazine has an image to go with every description . For my magazine i will use a few images to show what the other stories are about in my contents page but i will create a small description for each feature and include a page number.

at the bottom of the page the magazine's name, page number and the date are included, i think this is a great convention of the magazine, I would like to use this but only use the page number and the title of the magazine.