Friday, 25 October 2013

Main Task - Contents Page Analysis

And Here's Another One......

The contents page is the page where the readers are shown what all of the pages in a magazine are.

Contents Page 1


The top of the contents page has the mast head of 'We Love This.' The 'O' is shaded in giving it a uniqueness and also the font is in sans serif that conforms to the rest of the magazine. From the top of the page the readers are unaware that this is the contents page as there is no clear heading showing it but regular readers of this magazine will know this from the mast head at the top. The colour of this font is black which stands out as there is a obvious contrast against the white background.

Behind this white background there is a blue box behind which also contrasts against the white background. The colour scheme of each of the magazines change in every issue but they stay the same in that particular issue. In this issue, the colour scheme is blue, white, black and yellow which are all bright and vibrant colours which contrast against each other making a magazine that stands out.

In the top right corner of the page, we see the magazine name which is large, but doesn't cover the whole page. This conforms to other music magazines as they like the readers to know what they are looking at which helps them.

Next, we see a small body of text along the left hand side of the page. This gives a small brief of what the magazine is about, which informs the readers of what the magazine is. There are many pictures on the page which illustrate what is going to be inside the magazine along with writing explaining what each of the pictures is about making it easy for the reader to see. Also, the page numbers are all in the same font and are larger that the text making it easier to see what page the information is on. The font also stays the same in the bottom right of the page.

The pictures for each of these pages are different sizes, which illustrate the importance of each of the pages. The large image in the centre of the page shows the main article and the others around it just show the general pieces of working in this magazine.

Contents Page 2


This is a Billboard music magazine contents page. The masthead on the page clearly shows what the page is with its sans serif font type and the black contrasts against the white background. Next along the left side of the page there is a music charts section which songs have hit the charts for that week. It is clearly laid out into different sections, with Albums, Songs and This Week on .biz.

There are limited pictures on this contents page, with three at the top which show the different music artists and on what page they are on. This is a bit limites as there arent any descriptions below meaning the reader doesn't know what these pages are on. Below this there is a larger picture which is the same as above where there is a picture and a page number, clearly not showing what this specific page is about.

The actual contents page descriptions shows in full the page naumber with a little description of what each page is about which is what normal pop music magazines show, maing that it is conforming to a layout. The colour scheme on this page is the same with blue, white and black, which are the main colors that stand out to the reader.

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