Research, Contents Page

For the planning of my contents page I collected a variety of music magazines from 'NME' to 'KERRANG' and 'Q' as well as looking at contents pages on line for magazines such as 'VIBE' as they are very scarce and hard to find. I picked out elements from each magazine that I liked and thought about whether these elements were suitable for the genre of music that I chose my magazine to be based on.

If you look at the NME magazine on the left, you can see the more significant and dominant features of the contents page. I found out that the colour scheme is consistant throughout the contents page as well as the style and font type. Here you can see NME has used black, red and white as the main colours and are used significantly helping readers to determine different categories and sections. Also the contents page is very well structured in column's therefore baring in mind that my magazine therefore needs to be structured in columns also.

Here (on the right hand side) we have VIBE contents page. as you can clearly see the main colours of the contents page is black and two different shades of grey (one almost white) but the use of red was used to help a certain object (in this case the heart) stand out. This research helped me a lot as it made me realise that if used correctly a certain colour can be used to signify or highlight something to the audience and make it stand out. By looking at this contents page, I got the assumption that the front cover consisted of some of the elements portrayed on the contents page such as font styles and colour scheme. Also the use of the grey 'V' in the background is an element brought across from the front cover keeping it branded which taught me that in order to make both the front cover and the contents page look like they belong in the same magazine, I needed to find an aspect of my magazine that can be interpreted in both pages in order for the audience to identify the fact they are from the same magazine.

The Kerrang contents page also shows similar elements as VIBE and NME. For one, the contents page shows a very structured layout making it easy for the audience to read and is structured clearly through the use of columns. 
The use of images help the contents to stand out as they present main stories of the magazine. Also the house style is consistent throughout the page, as we can see the main colours are yellow, black and white and have been used effectively to display page numbers and headings. The contents page has used space very well and is full with alot of contents.