Textual Analysis Of Contents Pages

This contents page is part of the magazine NME. It is very busy and colourful, which makes it stand out.
The NME logo is shown at the top left hand corner of the page, to refer to the front cover of the magazine, which is a constant reminder to the audience what magazine they are reading. The colour scheme on this page is very different, the background of the page is white, were as the texts are different colours, for example red, black, pink and purple texts. This creates a mood for the magazine and also shows the genre of music it features. The contents is separated into different sections on the page. There is a bigger, longer list running down the left hand side of the page, which makes searching for an article alot easier than if it was dotted around the page. The main stories in the magazine are highlighted and are made much more colourful and bigger than the rest of the contents, by doing this it catches the readers eye, so they go directly to the article to read it. By using the different sections in the contents, it creates a the effect of alot more contents, therefore much more in the magazine, which will make the audience think that they are getting much more for there money and from the magazine. A subscription advertisement, in the left hand bottom of the page which reads 'Subscribe today and save over £45' . This is used in yellow text which stands out from the rest of the page because that colour has not been used on it more than once. It gives the magazine an opportunity to get more costumers to make sales. There is not one main image on this contents page, which is unusaly however there are three small images that relate to what is being mentioned in the contents listings and features.






This contents page is part of the magazine 'Rolling Stone'. We know this because the logo is shown in the top left hand cover which reads 'RS' this stands for Rolling Stone. This contents page consists of one main image which is placed at the left hand side of the page, and runs into the middle of the page, leaving a small place for the contents of the magazine to be, running down the right hand side of the page. The main image refers to the main article of the magazine which feautres the singer Kanye West. The image of him is performing at a concert, and it reads 'Kanye's Big Return' this tells us about what the article is about. The colour of the background is white, which contrast the colour of the picture, which is mainly dark colour such as red.
It also allows the text to be seen on the white background with black text.