Vessy Music Magazine

Before starting to work on the production of a contents page for my music magazine I have closely looked at different contents pages to determine the typical features of a music magazine contents page.I have looked at two different contents pages and the devices they use to inform and attract their audiences.
The figure on the left is a contents page designed by a media AS student. It looks very effective and interesting- almost as a professionally done content page. I like the high quality pictures used in the contents page because they attract and also inform the audience about the contents of the page.I love the way she has used faded music related pictures for a top border of the page.However the Contents page could be criticized for being too interesting and focusing its aim on attracting rather than informing the audience. The viewer's attention is drawn to the pictures and the colours rather than on the actual content of the magazine.

In contrast to the student designed contents page, the image on the right shows a different approach to contents page for a music magazine. The contens page has been professionally designed for a real rock magazine called Drummer.This is such a strong and effective contents page. All of it's features work excellent in informing and attracting the target audience.The retro styled pictures direct the audience to the title of the magazine and it's 'nature' because drums are usually associated with rock music.Organisation and clear consequent structure make this content page an excellent piece of publication. The images with page number on the top work exceptionally well in enticing the viewer because they inform him without giving too much away.This keeps the viewer interested in the magazine as it makes him curious the 'story' behind the pictures. I will aim at producing a similar content page to Drummer's one.

Now that I had the chance to look at different contents pages I am clearer on what mine is going to be like.The figure below is a jpeg of the word document i have created to help me with the production of a contents page. I have used different shapes to indicate where each element is going to be.Click on the image below to see my initial contents page idea.