2. 1st Analysis The contents page that I have analysed
above I feel has a few problems that will
affect its appeal to the audience and
reader however, the contents page does
contain some useful techniques that I will
take on board when creating my reggae
music contents page as I have stated
above. I really like the use of the bright
colour for sections of the text on the
contents page to allow the important
sections to stand out towards the
audience. Furthermore, the use of the
bright colour against the quite bold and
dark colour used for the background of
the contents page also allows the bright
coloured text to stand out even more to
the reader. One of the flaws of this
particular contents page is the use of the
masthead. The masthead used is very dull
and boring but mostly it probably
doesn't''t link in well with the actual front
cover of this music magazine, which I feel
would be a major advantage for the
contents and front cover of the magazine
to look appealing to the audience.
3. 2nd Analysis
The second contents page that I have analysed above I feel doesn't appeal
to the reader as much as the first contents page analysed. This is because
the second contents page lacks the use of a variety of images that actually
present meaning towards the actual genre of the magazine. The main
image used for this contents page is just of a random girl posing with her
ring which isn't even showed that clearly due to the blur that has occurred.
This will cause the audience to become uninterested with this magazine as
a whole because the contents page looks very rushed and unprofessional.
Furthermore, the images that have been used do not link in at all with the
text that has been presented in the contents page unlike the first contents
page that I have analysed. Instead the text from the contents page has
many page numbers with a short sentence, but no image to relate the text
too to give the reader a sneak preview of what is to come in that section of
the magazine. On the other hand, I do prefer the background of this
contents page compared to the first contents page. This is because this
contents page is quite colourful and bright which links in with the genre.
This will also engage the target audience to automatically begin reading
this contents page due to the diagonal effect with the use of colours. Also, I
feel that the way the contents has been designed justifies the actual target
audience because, as you can see the background makes the contents page
look quite girly and feminine and for girls who are into glitter and shiny
objects which i feel narrows the target audience down to a small section.
Another aspect of the contents page that I like is the use of colours that link
in with the background for the subheadings in the contents page to break
down the different types of articles that are in thee magazine into sections.
However, this could have been presented much better because the sections
shown have not been placed correctly in columns to make the magazine
have a nice layout and structure. Instead the columns are very uneven
which makes the text used look very unorganized and messy.
4. 1st Mock Up The image above is of a scanned rough plan of what I would
like my Reggae music magazine contents page to look like.
As you can see I will be using 4 images however, I have also
thought about just using 3 images and getting rid of the
image that would be on the top right hand side of the page.
Furthermore, for the images that will be used I will use a
number that will link with the numbered sentence in the
actual body of the contents page. This will allow the
audience to know automatically what that particular page of
the whole magazine will be about. Also, the layout of the
images used will be varied. For the largest image which is
underneath the masthead it will be placed conventionally in
a standing up position. However, the rest of the images used
will be rotated 45 degrees which is shown above. Since I
have created this plan I have thought about adding a black
weed leaf behind the slanted images. This will link in well
with the target audience because the culture of original
reggae artists such as 'Bob Marley' used to make songs
about this particular drug and how it brings peace to the
world. I feel that this template will be very useful for me
whilst I create my actual contents page because, I feel this
particular structure will work very well.
