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1. Research into Contents Pages

2. PHOTOGRAPH OF MAIN ARTIST: The photograph of the main artist is the
same artist that is seen on the front cover of the magazine. However this
time the background colour and the outfit are completely different to the
shot from the front cover. This time it was also taken as a landscape. You
can tell which is the main image for being the biggest image out of them
all and for being the one on top of the ones that are overlapping. This
pose of the main singer, Charli XCX, seems to be posing in a weird way
and a natural way for her behaviour in front of the camera as she seems
‘free’ to do whatever she wants in front of the camera which can relate to
her audience and fans as they all refer to teenagers and being rebellious
as her music has rebellious lyrics on it which all goes back of her being
seen as a role model to teenagers especially her fans that enjoy her music.
This would interact with the target audience of the magazine as its also
teenagers but at a older age. However the singers fans are very identical
to the magazine readers.
OTHER PHOTOGRAPHS: The other images are the ones at the back that
are overlapping with which are known as ‘other images’ which can be
referred to the other feature articles. They are mainly the other images
because they are the other articles that may link to the other target
audience, that are maybe older as the article of Charli XCX is for a young
audience such as the early teens or mid teens age.
SUMMARIES OF EACH ARTICLE: These give the reader a brief description
of what the article is going to be about. However its not included on this
contacts sheet as it is a single contact page. It doesn’t have summaries but
it has big titles of the articles next to the page number. This is done for a
purpose so the audience will actually read the article and wanting to find
more.
LAYOUT: In this contents page the layout on it is very simply and straight
forward showing to the audience. It is ordered in rows with simple text
and simple images, with a very modern layout with all the workers
job/credits right next to it in the right side of the magazine contents page..
FRONT COVER/PAST ISSUE: Usually it never shows the front cover from
the past issue into the contents page because I believe that DIY never
actually thought of doing that onto their magazines. However they do put
information and pictures onto their website of the current issue, previous
issue and a bit of the future issue.
NEW MEDIA: This is not shown on the contents page and not
even in any other page across the whole magazine. Which it
doesn’t actually matter because by this stage the magazine
wouldn’t need because the audience are used to it. However
Rolling Stone do have a website for audience to go and check out
what they missed from the current magazine or even the
previous one.
PAGE NUMBERS: The page numbers have been mentioned on the
headings in different colour. The idea of the use of different colour
is to go in with the colour scheme of the magazine which is red,
white and black. As the background colour from the front page is
red and the lips of the singer is also red. The idea of using red for the
page numbers gives and idea of the colour scheme still carrying on
throughout the magazine as it makes it easier to follow as a whole
magazine and its easier to identify the age number with the heading
title..
Research into Contents Pages
DIY MAGAZINE
TITTLE: As a typical music magazine contents page, this page is
usually recognise by the tittle of the page given as ‘contents’. This
is because it makes it easier for the target audience to find the
page and to find out more information about what’s going on with
the next pages on the magazine. Even though this page is
recognised as ‘contents’ the font is the same as the heading of the
categories for the magazine articles. However the font size of the
word ‘contents’ is not as big to make it stand out to the reader. In
fact it seems to be the same size as the headlines, which can be a
link to it. The only changes it would be that the font is on bold and
its also underlined.
DATE: The date for this issue doesn’t have it showing on the contents
page. This page just includes the needed information for the contents
page. Therefore as the date is not taking place in the contents page, it is
on the front cover as it must have been since the first place with the
website for the audience to use to find out more about the magazine.
HEADINGS: These are used to give the target audience and idea of the
categories the magazine has and how many it has by slipping them out.
The are shown in bold black colour as the words are written in capita
letters to make it easier to read. The first category is “’NEWS”, which
emphasises the idea of the most important articles for the target
audience or maybe even just any update on any gig or any future festival
that turns out to be a big news for the magazine. The next category is
“NEU” this category is expresses by all the new upcoming artist and gigs
that the target audience may be interested on. The “FEATURES” category
is all directly about any featured articles of any other musicians of any
kind that may li k to the secondery target audience, mainly the older
years (like 24 years old). The last category is “REVIEWS” which is always
giving out the updated news about any brand new singles and albums
from many artist from many different music genres.

3. Research into Contents Pages
VIBE MAGAZINE
TITTLE: As a typical music magazine contents page, this page is
usually recognise by the tittle of the page given as ‘contents’. This
is because it makes it easier for the target audience to find the
page and to find out more information about what’s going on with
the next pages on the magazine. However on this magazine it also
has a capital ‘v’ on the background behind the word ‘contents’ .
Even though its design as an outline it still refers back to the
magazine and the front cover which can link that the artist/singer
on the contents page is also the same one as the front cover.
DATE: The date is shown on this front cover. However the date is not in
a big size font which makes it seem not very visible which means that its
to not get most of the target audience. The date is next to the page
number on the bottom right hand corner. The date of this issue is
‘October 2008’.
HEADINGS: These are used to give the target audience and idea of the
categories the magazine has and how many it has by slipping them out
with the page numbers next to it to make it easier to find the page of the
article. They are being represented on a different font compared to the
other font that the rest of the contents page uses. This font is more
classic font, a front that you wouldn’t find on a contents page. This is
done for a purpose so its easier to see that the categories are broken up
in different parts with different articles from the magazine. The first
category is ‘features’ which is the category that usually has the
information from all the singers that come joint with the main singer that
appears on the front cover and the contents page. The second category is
‘fashion’ which is the category that usually has all the information from
the type of fashion singers has and clothes they wear as an act of
inspiration to the target audience as the audience see their favourite
singer as their inspiration and role model.
PAGE NUMBERS: The page numbers have been
mentioned next to the headlines/tittle of the article for
that specific page. The colour is black, which links to the
idea of the colour scheme being using a lot of the colour
black. Also the idea of the use of the colour black links to
the information that is provided from the title/headline
from that specific page number. This makes it easier to
follow and read the information that is written on the
contents page.
NEW MEDIA: This is not shown on the contents page and not even in any
other page across the whole magazine. Which it doesn’t actually matter
because by this stage the magazine wouldn’t need because the audience
are used to it. However at this point the audience would of known that
Vibe magazine has a website (just like any other music magazine to
provided more information to the audience) this way they can find out
more about the magazine and when the next issue is released and who
may be the artist/singers that are featured on the next issue.
(This is one of the pages out of the three pages that Vibe
magazine provides as a contents page!)
PHOTOGRAPH OF MAIN ARTIST: The photograph of the main artist is the
same artist that is seen on the front cover of the magazine. The pose that
she done in front of the camera seems to be a calm pose. However the
clothes that she's wearing can be seen as ‘sexy’ as she’s wearing a body suit
with a belt and heels including bracelets and necklaces. The target audience
is mainly teenagers so by the pose the singer is posing on the contents page
may be o the secondary target audience as they are a few ages older from
teens years. And by having the singer looking directly at the camera can get
the males attention to the singer and the information that is above her. This
attention is not only captured by the pose of the singer but also by the little
amount of clothes she’s wearing and the really ‘nude’ colours she’s wearing,
which can also portray ‘fashion’ as it’s a common colour that is currently
very trendy and mainly society sees teenage girls wearing on a daily basis.
SUMMARIES OF EACH ARTICLE: These give the reader a brief description of
what the article is going to be about. This is included in the colour black so it
matches the page number and is clear to read as the background it white.
This gives a brief idea what the page has included and what type of
information. Usually the descriptions are informal as the target audience
uses informal language when communicating so this would show a sign of
connection between the magazine and the audience..
LAYOUT: In this contents page the layout on it is very simply and straight
forward showing to the audience. The ‘contents’ tittle is visible as a font is big
and take a big space at the top. The background only has one photography of the
main artist which makes the page look even more simple. And the headlined are
after placed all on the right side of the page, which makes it seem clear and neat
to the reader to follow the pages they want to read.
FRONT COVER/PAST ISSUE: Usually it never shows the front cover
from the past issue into the contents page because I believe that
Vibe never actually thought of doing that onto their magazines as
hey never did an I guess that audience is used to that routine of not
seeing the front cover or the past issue on the contents page..

4. Research into Contents Pages
BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
TITTLE: The billboard recognises the contents page by giving the
tittle of ‘contents’. This is placed on the top right side of the page
as the tittle is going downwards as you read it. Also the colour is
black which refers back to the connotation that the headlines,
page numbers and even the outfit the artist is wearing, it all links
back to the ‘contents’ tittle. Its easy to know this is the contents
page as the words ‘contents’ is actually in a bigger font
compared to the rest of the information that is provided on this
exact page.
DATE: This contents page doesn’t include the date of the issue.
However ‘on the cover’ small section it does include the date that
this picture was taken, which was on the ‘July 29th’. It doesn’t
include the year but by the day and the month, the audience can
already tell when this issue was released.
HEADINGS: These are used to give the target audience and idea of
the categories the magazine has and how many it has by slipping
them out with the page numbers next to it to make it easier to find
the page of the article and easier to understand the layout of the
magazine. The headlines are joint in six different categories. The
first category is ‘features’ which is where you find all the
information about the other artists that have articles for the target
audience o read and find out more about it. The other category is
‘the billboard hot 100’, which his where the magazine usually gives
out the best 100 songs that are currently most popular and mostly
heard in the country or worldwide. The third headline is ‘topline’
which is where the albums, singles and music videos are reviewed.
The forth category is ‘the beat’ which is mainly information about
awards and concerts that the audience would be interested to find
information about it. The fifth one is called ‘music’ which is where
the audience can find articles or information about the type of
genre they listen o as Billboard magazine does any type of music
genre. The last category is called ‘charts’ which is simply where the
magazine gives out the music charts to the audience as along music
suggestion to listen to next.
PAGE NUMBERS: The page numbers have been mentioned next to the
headlines/tittle of the article for that specific page in the colour black as it
connects to the rest of the information to the headlines and to the summaries
of the articled along with the tittle of the page ‘contents’. This portrays the
idea that also black is a very common colour that us seen on Billboard issues.
PHOTOGRAPH OF MAIN ARTIST: The photograph of the main artist is
usually the same artist that is seen on the front cover of the magazine.
This shot seems to be taken in a studio as the background is just a solid
simple colour as it connects well with the black in the writing. Also the
shot is a mid-shot of the singer, Ariana Grande. The pose she’s portraying
is with her back to the camera as she moves her face towards the side to
looks at the camera. This shot is taken at a ye level, which means the
singers eyes is looking directly at the audience eyes as it’s the focal point
that catches the audience when they look at this page, right at the
beginning. He make up sees to bee the type of make up teenagers would
wear and as her fans are mainly teenagers it connects to the fact that the
primary target audience is also teenagers. The fact that the artist has pink
lipstick on portrays the idea that she’s very girly as she looks very
innocent towards the camera which would grab more of the primary
target audience (younger audience) compared to the secondary target
audience (older audience).
SUMMARIES OF EACH ARTICLE: These give the reader a brief description of
what the article is going to be about as also the colour of it is black. This give a
brief small idea of what the articles or the information they're providing to
the audience is going to be about. This also helps to give a small
understanding of the article before reading it. As the language writing should
be informal so the target audience (teenagers) can create an connection with
the magazine and themselves, especially depending the artist in the front
cover (especially if it’s a teenager favourite singer which can be seen as their
role model, so the writing/ language would definitely be informal as they
already know the artist).
LAYOUT: In this contents page the layout on it is very simple as the
photography of the mail artist is taking most of the space as it graves more
the target audience attention. The contents tittle on the right side of the page
and the rest of the information and the headlines along with the summaries
of the articles and the page number on the other side of the page. On the
bottom left side also a small square o information about ‘on the cover’. This
layout is simple and it makes it clear for the audience to follow the magazine
easily.
NEW MEDIA: This is not shown on the contents page and not even in any other page across the
whole magazine. Which it doesn’t actually matter because by this stage the magazine wouldn’t
need because the audience are used to it and as it is a teenage as a target audience they would
of be able to search more about the magazine and the social media they have for the audience
to find out more information about the magazine. This gives out an idea the magazine doesn’t
have to promote their website along with social media on the contents page..
FRONT COVER/PAST ISSUE:
Usually it never shows the front
cover from the past issue into the
contents page because I believe
that Billboard never actually
thought of doing.