Saturday, 31 October 2015

Magazine Contents Page Summary

Firstly, the three magazine have many similarities which involve the conventional aspects of music magazines. They all use columns on their contents pages which give a sense of structure and precision. This shows a pattern of conventional features of a typical music magazine. This is done to make the readers navigation for different pages more easy and straight forward. This pattern of the use of columns for the contents page has made me decide to include columns to structure my contents page. Secondly, all the contents page have a running head above their feature stories etc. This titles the contents page and labels it giving a clear idea to the reader of where the contents page is.



However, B&S, mixmag and Jazzwise have many contrasts towards each other. These include, the variety of images used to engage with the demographic. Mixmag used a range of different images to attract their readers and to also please the visual learners. B&S and Jazzwise only use one image which may engage with their particular demographic but overall don't appeal to a wide range of people. I will therefore use multiple images for my contents page to give the appearance which mixmag presents to their readers. Lastly, all of the magazines have different ways of navigating their reader to specific stories/articles. Mixmag successfully does this by using larger page numbers to direct their reader towards what their interested in reading. However, B&S and Jazzwise do not do this which doesn't give a bold appearance to the potential readers. This makes me want to use large page numbers to give a easy way of navigation to the readers.

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