Wednesday, 17 November 2010

Analysing Music Magazines-Contents Page

Q Magazine
  • The main image is dominant of the page; this convention is usually an image of the cover band/artist of the issue.
  • Simple black band across the top of the page, highlighting the title of 'contents' by using contrasting colours and the issue number and date a convention of all magazines.
  • The theme colours black red and white are all colours associated with the magazine 'Q' and the indie culture.
  • Only selected pages are show in within the contents page, this is becuase they are the pages which are usually related to the issue and is the readers favourite features.
  • Also the fonts used are the same which is easy to read and looks neater on the page.
  • This is a very simple use of a contents page.
Kerrang! Magazine
  • The main image is dominant of the page; this picture is not posed and is a picture of movement from a gig, a big part of rock culture.
  • On this contents page there is an editors collumn, completed with a picture of the editor giving them credit for their hard work of this issue.
  • All pages are not on the contents list just the important features.
  • Another simple contents page
  • Competitions and features are advertised here.

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