My Contents Page and Q Contents Page

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

1. The contents page will usually contain an image of the artist on the front cover. This is because if the artist is what attracted the reader to the magazine, then they will probably want to read the article/interview about that article. So it is the first image placed on the contents page, so the reader finds it easy to find the page number for this article/interview. This is placed here for convenience. It is also usually the largest image on the page.

2. Both contents pages include a left column as part of the contents page. In my magazine this column consists of featured artist, but in the Q magazine contents page this column shows the features of the magazine. The reason I have chosen to lay my magazine differently, is because my image takes up less space than that of the Q magazine main image, so therefore I have more space below the image to place all the necessary pages and information. The artist index is useful, because if the reader is interested in this genre of music, chances are that they will be interested in the other featured artists of the magazine,

3. The contents page is usually sectioned into different headings, so that it is easy to find information in the magazine. The rectangles are used to recognize the new section. I have included a ‘on the cover’ section because my front cover includes a lot of information on it, and so the text on the front cover could have been the aspect which drew the reader into reading/buying the magazine. This section makes it easy for the reader to find the article they want to read, which they were intrigued by, from the front cover.