Research - Music Magazine (Contents)

Contents pages are just as important as the front page! It is very important to keep the colours flowing through the front cover and the contents, as throughout the whole magazine! The idea of contents pages is to capture the best and most exciting articles and place them on the contents page! This makes the readers want to carry on as the best bits are shown to them to intrigue them. Contents pages are also a good way to adevrtise and promote competions. This works well as it draws people in and attracts a wider audience. Without contents pages people would get bored of flicking through the whole magazine to find the article they want to read therefore the contents page creates easier access to articles and competions for the audience. This Contents Page has similar ideas to the one above yet it is targetted at a totally different genre! I personally don't like this contents as i feel it is a little to heavy and the colours are a little dull! Although it proves that the contents very much changeds to the genre of the music! In this contents poage the pictures dominate the text which allows for 'grazing'! I imagine for this genre this contents page will intrigue the reader! Not all the pictures are of direct address which goes against the convention. There is a list of contents and the title is at the top of the page which agrees with the convention. My conents page is going to be more like the first one i researched!