Deconstruction of Two contents Pages

We then moved on to designing our contents pages. Too start with, I had to take 2 contents pages and compare them with each other, looking for key themes that they both had, or what they didn't have. In the first cover, there are a lot of images included. This is too show which other artists are featured in the magazine quickly, if you don't want to have to read the contents page and see who else is featured in the magazine from just a quick glance. Also, there is a limited colour scheme in the first contents page, with the classic black and white, as well as red and different shades of blue. However, when I looked at the magazine compared with it's front cover, I struggled to see a link between the colour scheme used on the front cover and the colour scheme used in the contents page. There is also an incentive to buy the magazine down in the bottom right corner, which is there to benefit the reader if they buy the magazine- a sort of "if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours", if you will. There are at least 3 different types of font used on the contents page, all of which taken from the front cover- this tells me that to show a link between the contents page and the front cover, I will need to use the same fonts that I included on my front cover.

On the second contents page, there is only one image. This tells the reader that the main feature of the magazine will be primarily based around this one person. However, it is not that effective for quickly seeing who else is featured in the magazine. There is a limited colour scheme on this contents page, it being red, black, white and the grey on his trousers. I can assume that the colour scheme is the same on the front cover as it is on the contents page. There are around two different types of font used on the contents page, which creates a contrast, and therefore I will need to include more than one type of font on my contents page, and after looking at the first contents page, I will have to link my fonts on the contents page to that of my front cover.