The document describes and compares the layout and design of the contents pages of two music magazines, NME and Q Magazine. Both magazines use bold text and different colors for titles, artists names, and page numbers to make content easy to find. NME uses more graphics and colors, appealing to a younger audience, while Q Magazine has a more mature look but still guides readers through detailed contents. Overall, the magazines have similar contents page structures using features like main cover lines and page layouts, but NME targets younger readers while Q provides more detailed content.

1. Cesca Haig

2. First letter of the article in
a much bigger font that the
rest of the article.
Picture
covering Quote from
whole page article
Title over top
of main
image Small images
Text explaining what the with text
article will be about. describing

3. An image is shown, not
from a photo-shoot but
from a performance,
Magazines Logo with some text beneath
saying what the picture
is of/about
Bold cover lines are used
to split the contents into
categories
The magazine has a band
index which will show what
bands and what genre of
music the magazine will
feature.
Advertising a subscription to the
magazine

4. The contents page has a few different graphics, advising
people on which pages to look at . These give the
magazine a more youthful look as older readers would
not expect graphics like these in their choice of
magazine.
On the contents page of NME they have a bit that tells you
how you can subscribe to the magazine. This appeals to the
reader if they want to buy the magazine again after
reading it the first time, as it is a way of saving money and
an easier way for them to get the magazine. The colours
here don’t match the rest of the colour scheme on this page
making it stand out to the customer.
Main cover lines are in a bold font making them stand out
and are used to categories articles into different sections,
making it easier to find things. Bold text is used for the
titles and the page numbers are in a different colour,
again making it easy to find what you're interested in
reading about.

5. First letter of the article
in a much bigger font
that the rest of the
article.
Text
surrounded in
a gold
Picture background,
covering draws the
whole page reader to it.
Title over top of main image
Text explaining what the
article will be about.

6. Magazine logo
Pictures with page Page numbers, title and
numbers, making Small review of small introduction to
people want to go magazine contents article on said page
and see what is on the
page

7. Bold text is used for the names of artists and page
numbers, they are underlined in a different colour,
this gives the contents page a more mature look than
NME but still makes it easy to find what you're
interested in reading about. And also regular main
cover lines are layout in the same way, again
making it easier to find things you are interested in
reading about.
Unlike NME, Q magazine used pictures
with page number in the corner to attract
readers to the different features of the
magazine.

8. Both magazines have very similar contents pages, they use similar
features such as the bold main cover lines and the way the pages are
layout. NME is aimed at a younger audience than Q magazine and
this is shown by the way that Q is more detailed nd has more contents
than NME.

9. Both magazines double page spread are almost identical, both start with a bolder
letter and both use a full picture with text describing the article on the first page.
This is the way that most magazines will set out a double page spread.