Contents Page and Contents Page Analysis

Contents Page

The contents page is also one of the most important parts of a magazine, as it is the second thing that the reader see when they open the magazine, they first look at the front cover to judge a magazine then most of them would open to the contents page and look at the list of other pages of the magazine which direct audience to where they are interested in reading and whether it attracts them.

Contents Page Analysis

For this, I have got 2 magazines’ contents page to compare with.

First of all, this contents page really attracts me as a reader, it is just plain black but has been decorated with colourful pictures and it is based on white fonts, it has separated “features” and “regulars”, under each title there is a short explanation of what it is about, this shows the reader what they are going to be reading about and not just the title. The titles are not in straight line and it is all just slightly tipped to one side, this shows the magazine is not a formal magazine.

On the other hand, this magazine’s contents page layout is more formal, however, the font they are using looks like if it is aim for teen boys and it is more modern and all the pages are shown very clearly what it is going to be about, on the right hand side there are also pictures that links with the titles. There is a limited amount of information on the titles, and like the first magazine, there are different heading for each one, it is lay out very clearly as they separate the different topics. I think that this lay out is clear enough for people to read in a quite formal way.