My Contents Page and Drummer Contents Page

To the left, is my contents page and to the right is a professionally published music magazine contents page.

1. Bothe contents pages include a 'features’ section title which a lot of music magazines include because, it could either be featured artists, or just features in general of the magazine, or unique features, which are not necessarily usually in a music magazine.

2. The layout of the section names is similar. The numbers are a different colour to the text. This is so that the page number is identifiable. It is also to add house style colour to the contents page and vary the text colour. The title of the article/feature is then written in a bold font, besides the number. It is written in black font, but in bold, so that it is shows that it is the title of the article/section/feature. Below the name of the article, are a few lines outlining what the article is about. This is useful, because it saves the reader form looking at an article, which sounds appealing, but once they read the article, they find that it is not what they expected.

3. Each image includes a number relevance. This shows that there is actual use for the images used in the contents page. The page numbers are the same colour as that of the other page numbers, so that the reader is aware that they indeed are the page numbers. The images usually feature other artists who are currently tabloided, or are related to the main article, or who are generally popular currently. Alto of people, I included, rarely actually read the contents page, they simply look for what they wish to read, and navigate to that page. So the images will help the reader make those decisions about the article to read. The reader will be able to identify what they article is about quickly, without looking through the entire contents.