Looking at the Contents Page

When we came to look at the contents page, we had to analyse the use of composition, images, graphics, texts and themes. In our groups we used the same magazine as we did for the front cover which was 'Kerrang!'

The layout of the contents page is simple and can be obviously seen as a contents page, this is clearly shown by the heading at the top of the page 'KERRANG! CONTENTS'. Black boxes with yellow text inside are used for heading for each section of the magazine, which stands out and also helps the reader to chose what they want to read easily. The page numbers are in red which also stands out. The black and yellow and red colours also goes with the theme of the magazine. The main image on the contents page is of 'All time low' advertising the competition where the readers can win tickets to meet the band, this is used because it is one of the main focuses of the magazine and they want people to enter.

From doing this, it helped us to think about how to set out our own contents page. It gave us different ideas on images and texts to use. For example, as a group we liked the idea of having a message from the editor as we thought it made it more personal to the reader and it would be a good feature to have on the contents page.