contents page analysis

1. The costume worn by the model is
incredibly bright and this will attract the
audience. The brightness of her
costume makes the content page look
more appealing to the audience,
especially because all the other images
are dark and gothic. The main image
has to stand out to the audience so that
it’s the first thing they look at when they
turn the page over which will get them
intrigued into wanting to know more
about the magazine.
The masthead is big, bold and black
which is important on a contents
page as it’s clear for the reader to
see and they don’t have to squint to
read what it says.
The typography utilised on the
contents page are quite small
and which is difficult to read. Its
crucial that the texts are visible
and easy to read in order to keep
the readers intrigued so they
would want to read more in the
magazine.
As portrayed through these
images, we can tell that the
genre of this music magazine
is rock and that’s because the
costumes worn by the artists
are very dark and gothic.
The three images shown in this
contents page shows the
audience that there’s variety of
different things in the magazine.
This is important to keep the
audience from being bored of
seeing the same thing over and
over again.

2. The costume worn by this artist
illustrates that this magazine is hip
hop or rap magazine. It is really
important that the reader can
distinguish a genre of the
magazine jus by looking at the
costume because they don’t have
to read much and this keeps them
intrigued because the reader wants
to be able to see a picture and
know what its portraying rather
than having to always read which
can get boring for the reader.
The font of the texts are small but bold
which is important because it stands out
and it differentiates the sub-headings to the
added texts. The fact that the sub-
headings are bold helps the readers
because its easy to read as it’s visible.
The artist’s facial expressions can
push the reader away as he looks
quite angry and this may show the
audience that the magazine is not
a welcoming one which can stop
the reader from enjoying the
magazine.
There’s only one image on this
contents page, this is not a good
thing because the readers like to
look at different images so they
don’t get bored of reading. It is also
important to have different images
so the magazine look appealing to
the audience in order to keep them
intrigued.
Having the featured artist's name on
the contents page is important
because it gives the reader a bit of
insight on what the magazine is
about and who’s in the magazine. It
is also important that its clear fro the
audience to see as soon as they turn
the page so they don’t have to look
for it.