Contents Page

Now we have finished the front cover for our magazine, we now have to do the contents page. But the first part we had to do towards doing the contents page was to look at two magazines, aimed at a similar target audience to our own mag, and just see what simerlarities and differences they both have.

The two magazines I looked at were Music and FHM. There are many things you would expect to find on a contents page in a magazine. Including whats in the magazine, like articles, free competitions etc... Pictures of the bands in the magazine, Bold capital lettering in the title and many mastheads. The layout in both of the magazine is pretty much the same, the colour of the background is bland with it just being black and white. Maybe theres a bit more colour in the FHM magazine than the music mag, in like the mastheads, the title and what the people in the band are wearing, but there isnt much difference between the two.

In both of the magazine, they both have simerlarities and differences in the language that they use and also their mode in address in the contents page. They both show in their pictures good dress sense, which perhaps shows the class of there job and the magazine. But you can tell the difference of the language in both magazines from the FHM magazine, where in one of the pictures of the contents page shows he is kind of an individualist, as he wants to do what he wants. He also shows hes a bit of a lombard, as he shows he has lots of money by what hes wearing and his stance, but by whats hes doing and his act towards the people who buy this magazine, hes a bit of a idiot.

In the contents pages, you can see how they appeal to their audience. One appealment for people is the attitude thats the people in the pictures or what the writer has written in the magazine. Some people find bad language funny, so humor is a massive appeal in the magazine.

Another appealment in the magazines are like extras, including talks about the new fashion of clothing for the new season, jokes, attractive pictures like in the FHM magazine. The opera music charts etc...

01In both of the magazines, you can see there is many simerlarities in the house style. The colour of the backgrounds are pretty much the same in the front cover and the contents page. The titles have the same colouring and also the mastheads etc...