Contents research

The next stage of my researching is to find out what i want in my contents page. To do this, i searched for examples. These are shown below.

This contents page is not overflowing with words which is what makes it so effective. Instead of being full to the brim of things you find inside the magazine, it shows the most important pages which is exactly what the reader wants to read. It does not tell you what is on every page but tells us the most interesting features you can find inside.

A very effective technique that this contents page has is its simple colour scheme. The only two colours used are red and white with black writing.  This makes the text and images very clear and so the reader can easily read them.

The disadvantages of this contents page are that there are no photos or images to show what is inside. By looking at the contents page layout and photos, I cannot see what magazine it comes from. For my magazine, I want to imbed photos within the contents page so that the reader can clearly see what is to be found inside without reading the writing. I also want to make it clear what type of magazine it is.

This contents page is quite different from the previous one. Instead of being quite plain and quite simple, it is quite an interesting and lively contents page. Similar to the previous contents page I researched, the colours mainly used are black, red and white. I believe these colours are used so that the red stands out as being the most important information and therefore, it stands out to the reader.

One thing I like about this contents page is the photos that are used. We can clearly see from the photos used that the magazine revolves around music. I think using photos is a very successful technique used on a magazine as it conveys to the reader what is inside. It means that the reader is more intrigued to read inside the magazine.

I like the layout to this magazine; the main feature of the magazine is the big photo which makes it stand out to the reader. This is a technique I would like to use in my magazine