Research - Contents Page

I have also carried out research to ensure that when i create my contents page it will fit with other successful music magazines. In order to do this I researched other contents pages and looked at how they attracted their target audience. I looked at the contents page for Kerrang and found that all the features were listed under subheadings with the page numbers being bold and big so that they stand out for the reader. This contents page contains many images which will be of interest to the reader. It is set out neatly in columns and boxes to make it easy to read. There is an editors letter in the top right which is in smaller print and therefore leaves more space for the features to be listed. They follow a consistant colour scheme of yellow, black and white throughtout and the features are kept within the genre of music which interests the target audience. In this case the genre of interest is rock music.

I also looked at the contents page of Q magazine and found that it too had a similar layout. The features were all set out under sub headings. The page numbers were once again made to stand out off the page and catch the readers attention. On this contents page there are only two image. This is useful as it draws attention directly to that image and therefore to the story of which the editors will believe would be of main interest. Along with the large umage the text for this feature is also larger than the rest once again drawing attention to it. There is also a colour scheme of red, white and black which is followed. The magazine contents page reflects the target audience of an older generation as the font used is sophisticated at the layout is kept simple and consistent.