By using a solid black background with white text and cream
coloured squares, the contents page appears really bright, fun, and almost
seems alive. The chosen font is also simple and clear, keeping it appropriate
and making it easy for the audience to read. The photos have also been edited
to add bright colours, which makes the page more appealing to the reader, and
will make them more likely to stop and look at the page when they are flicking
through the magazine. The photos are also relevant to the text, and this is
clearly displayed by the arrows pointing the photos. This is useful as the
reader will notice the photo and become interested, and then the next thing
that they will see is the page number, and description of the page.
Another good feature is that they have not put any extra
description into the regular features, but have used more space on the extra features,
telling the reader exactly what the articles will contain and what they can
expect. The way that they have labelled the 'Features' and the Regulars'
compliments there regular readers, as they will already know which of the
features they prefer and which too skip out, as well as being able to see
instantly what it is that makes this issue unique and what they can read.
This is a very simple, yet very effective contents page for
a skater magazine, which we can tell from the photo of someone on a skateboard
in the background. The idea of keeping the page black and white gives the page
a sort of retro effect, and reflects everything skaters see in their sport, in
one page. The background of the photo shows the clouds rolling over the skater,
but has no disruption in it. This continues the idea of a peaceful, friendly
environment, where people can be happy and relaxed, again reflecting what the skaters,
and so more than likely the readers, believe in. The style and type of photo
used makes the whole page seem kind of dramatic and special, leaving the idea
that the magazine which teach the audience thing which could potentially have a
large impact on their life, and they too could do something as dramatic and
cool as this. The whole contents page seems to be based on an advert poster for
a film of a movie's credits, with the actual contents being written across the
bottom of the page much like a cast list would be, making it the last thing the
reader see’s, allowing them to take everything else in first. One thing which I
personally don't like about the cover is the lack of colour, as the page
appears dull and boring too me, and I would be put off the rest of the magazine,
but the magazine is not aimed at me and so this is not really a massive
problem. The complex and fancy text used in the actual page numbers shows which
articles are more important than the others, by the size and boldness of the text,
helping readers pick out key parts of the article.
This contents page is set over a double spread, and so has
more room to work in than the other two. This extra space has not been used as
effectively as it could have been, with lots of the page just being blank
white. Too improve this they could have put colour on the background that would
have worked well with the border of the page, and helped to make the page more
appealing. One good effect to the page, is how they have written the
appropriate page number onto the photos, so if a reader likes the look of a
certain photo linking to an article, they can go straight to the page rather
than having to read the whole contents page to find out where the article will
be. One negative to this is that the reader will no longer reader the contents page,
and so will not know what else is contained in the magazine, and something
which may be of interest to them but is not featured in a photo may go
unnoticed and so may not get read at all. I also like the way that the cover
story has been given its own section in the contents page, and so the reader
can go straight from the cover and find out where they can continue to read
straight on, without having to read through the rest of the contents page and
struggling to find what they want.
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