Contents page research

This content is from a music magazine. Vibe magazine features the latest music and news to do with R&B and pop music. Looking at this contents page, I like how the page is split into two halves, the feature and fashion information being on the right and the picture leading its way up into the left side.

The colour scheme used again follows the three colour rule which makes it merge together. 

The negatives are: the black outline which is merged into the picture, this affects the writing on the left column as its too hard to read, the ‘contents’ title is not in line, slightly tilted which doesn’t work, so are the features and fashion columns, in addition the letter ‘T’ is not in line with the letter ‘N’ or ‘C’ this makes it untidy instead of it being neat. It would look better if it was kept normal and straight.

The content page includes page numbers making it user friendly, you can easily find out what you’re looking for instead of looking through every page.

One good strong point about this contents page is how the artist Ciarra, Is using her legs to make the letter ‘V’ but also another ‘V’ is put into place just in case the reader’s eye does not catch this action, this links to the title of the magazine ‘Vibe’.

This content page from NME features a lot of information rather than concentrating on a contents page which should tell the audience how to navigate through a magazine.

The content is not done to a good standard, it is very messy, and everything was just put into place without any organisation. The image used is too dark, as the editing was not done properly; the hand of the male dancer is too light compared to his face, also parts of the female dancer’s leg is too light compared to the rest of her body. 

More adverts are used within this content page compared to other magazines such as Vibe and XXL, making it squashed together.

The content follows the three colour rule (white, black and yellow); the band index is on the left hand side of the page in a bright red box linking to the image used, this gives the reader information towards the band. In addition to this, this content page is split into different parts (news, radar, reviews, live and features); a sub heading is used for each category which makes it user friendly and easy to interpret.