Inspirational Ideas for Contents Page

Q Contents Page

Kerrang Contents Page

This example of Kerrang! contents page, and in this contents page the main story and focus point is the image of the artist 'Slash' so you get the sense this is the main image of the page because it draws the readers attention, there is no text about the image other than the word 'Slash', because Kerrang think that people don't need much information to draw people to read the page it says it's featured on as they will automatically turn to that page. The colour of Kerrang is used on the front cover as well as the contents page, the use of yellow, white, balck and red and these colours associate with the genre of the music which is rock/indie. The images in the page are very dark and dull so this draws more attention to the text and font colours. They use sub headings for each key feature in the magazine for example in this page they include Feedback, News, and Live Reviews etc. and they stand out because they are divided into different sections. I think the features can appeal to the magazine target audience as i think its what readers would like to see and read about. There is a few images on this contents page to even out the amount of text getting used because I think they don't want to cramp in too much information in the first page to bore the readers. On the right hand side it shows a editors column and what includes in 'this weeks' Kerrang! to get the readers to see what the editor has to say about the magazine. I like the amount of text getting used and the amount of images as it balances it out to equal them out so people can look at both.


NME Contents Page

This is an example of NME music magazines contents page. The main story for this contents page is about the band Kasabian, with a brief paragraph and picture which is presented in the middle of the page make this the main focus point of the contents page, it gets the auidence to read. The colours and theme NME uses the same colours for the contents page as on the front cover which is black, white and red colour scheme. There is a clash of yellow getting used in the contents page to try draw attention to that text so the information that is getting potrayed. NME uses sub headings so the reader can easily find the article they want to read, this is the sort of convention most magazines use. In NME magazine it is divided into six parts News, Radar, Reviews, Live, Features and Plus. The page numbers are next to the articles this helps the reader find what they are looking for. The features on the contents page would help appeal to their target audience because the band that is presented  are familiar and well known so the information that is shown they would be interested in. On the left hand side of the page is the band index advertising all of the artists that are featured in the magazine issue and there are page numbers so that the reader knows what page they are featured on. There is not a lot of pictures only one main image of the band 'Kasabian' used on the contents page it is more text this is could mean it's a magazine that has more information inside the rest of the magazine. I think the contents page is set out quite well because its well organised and uses every little space of the page, but however this makes it look quite busy and untidy, but overall think it's got enough information the page needs.