Contents page

In this lesson, we looked at different styles of contents pages. I found out that contents pages must have a house style - an ongoing theme throughout the magazines design such as colour scheme and similar styles of font. They appeal to their audience with the use of different sections of the magazines and for example; if it were a magazine in home improvement the audience can look straight to a section for home improvement tips and new buys. This means the audience can know where to look for the information they want. Also, they can target their audience with the use of pictures in a collage theme on the contents page with the theme of the magazine in mind, this could make the audience feel that if they read the magazine they could be like the model in the picture.

The house style is very important. This links with the rest of the magazine and gives an on going theme throughout the magazine. For example; the magazine will need a colour scheme of perhaps blue and green. Therefore, the contents page will look more attractive if there is an ongoing colour scheme of blue and green. This makes the magazine appear more neat and presentable to an audience. Also, the cover and contents page will have similar pictures to each other. They will not necessarily have to have the same models/poses but they could have similar themes to eachother. For example 'source' which is a home improvement magazine had an image of a famous actress in red on the front cover and then red and green styled home pictures in the contents page.

'Kerrang' contents page.