Contents Page Textual Analysis 01

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I will now begin to analyse contents pages for research before designing my own. This is a contents page from the music magazine 'Q'. Q mainly features indie and popular rock music, but the more conventional side of things, meaning that the audience is wider, so they can feature a larger range of genres without losing a lot of audience.

• The colour scheme is the same as the front cover (the conventional white/black/red), making this usage of the colour scheme a motif of Q Magazine, making it more recognisable to fans of the magazine, and it also looks nice on the page, making it more aesthetically pleasing.

• There is one main image, featuring what I presume is the most famous band in the magazine, (so they want to make them easier to find). The image shows the band cool by the standards of their fans, (wearing fashionable clothes and stood together in the group almost reminiscent of a suave gang of males).

• The secondary image is relating directly to the "Review" section, and also depicts a male as 'cool' by the way he is dressed and posing in a casually confident manner. The man, (as we can see by the juxtaposition of the photograph and the particular section of the page,) is directly related to the"Review" section. This gives a small excerpt of an article, making the reader read it and then want to know more about it, causing them to read more of the magazine if they are interested.

• Both images have the article names and page numbers near them, so that the reader can locate the article in the magazine straight away. This is probably why they included some of the more famous acts in the photographs (so that people find what they want to find efficiently thanks to the contents page).

• A dateline is in the top right corner, which helps collectors of the magazine know the date and month. It also will help people to realise what content will be relevant and when it was relevant as well.

• There is a main headline stating that it is the 'Contents' page, which is there obviously so that people know the fact that it is indeed a contents page. The Q logo is placed to the left of this, so that it is like a masthead of sorts, and all of this still follows the black/red/white colour scheme.

• The page has a special features and a regular features section, which helps divide the contents page up making it seem less overwhelming, but it also breaks convention y featuring an "Oasis Special" section.

• This is so that fans of the band Oasis can easily find the articles relating to them (as this magazine is a special issue featuring a lot about Oasis).

• There are also article/feature headlines, with the relevant page numbers and a small subheading of information about each article. This is useful as it (like the information near the images) helps the reader to locate articles relevant to what they want to see.