Thursday 5 January 2012

Analysis of contents pages

This is a contents page for the music magazine Karrange. As you can see, straight away there is a well known rock band at the top of the page with a white tag indicating what page it's the story is on. The colour scheme of the contents page is white, black and yellow. The black and yellow bold writing dennotes and an insect, i.e. a bee, this connotes 'aggressivness' and 'danger' in a way as does a bee becasue people are usually scared of them. It has regular conventions such as pictures after each of the contents page numbers to show what your exactky looking for on the page. 
Most of the information on the page seems quite organised as it is under different subheadings which makes it easier to find the page.


In contrast, this hip hop/rap magazine gives a completely different feel. First of all the there is only one main model used on the page who you could say is lying in a very 'sexsual' position' going with the theme of the magazine, aswell as the colour theme being dark and at the top and lighter grey at the bottom giving it a more sophisticated touch. I think that it is quite clever the way that her legs are crosed in a 'V' shape which is instantly assosiated with the magazine's name 'VIBE' (as you can also see there is a transparent 'v' in the background). The contents  seems quite organised and as a section of pages are under a specific subheading e.g. fashion. The title 'Contents' is placed in a unusual way then other contents pages, the words don't go in a straight line. My opinion would be that it's very creative and not to many pictures so that the main attention goes on the model. The only thing that would make it better would be if they made the font of the writing a bit bigger and better colour so its more intersting to read.

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