for this contents of kerrang we can see that the colour scheme is much like the front covers where it has white, black and yellow, but this time there is little red and the background colours are now white and not black, its like the white and black have been swapped. the masthead is at the top but more to the right and has a black background on top of te white background, and a yellow font, this makes it stand out to let the reader know they are on the contents page. underneath this is the issue and the date so that the reader knows which issue for what week they have before they read on not knowing. there are about 9 cover lines accompanied by a photograph in this page with one bigger than the others which is the main photograph, and this is because this would be the main article of the magazine. each of the cover lines are given their page numbers so that the reader will be able to know and flick to the correct page, and the font for the page numbers is in yellow with a black background which fits in with the masthead of the page and makes the page layout have the same theme throughout the whole page. on the right hand side of the page there are more cover lines with a title saying 'this week' to let the reader know what is going on in the week, this has a similar font to the masthead but the colours have been swapped so there is a yellow background and black text. underneath this there are seperate titles separating the cover lines of the magazine e.g 'News', 'Features' and 'Swag' and so every reader that wants to look at a particular section of the magazine can go to the category of the contents and then are able to see wich page each article is on to do with that category. these category headings are in the same colurs as te masthead of the page so we know that they are like little 'mastheads' and helps the reader understand that what is under them is what they are about. under each of these category headings are the cover lines which are in a black font along with their page numbers and these can be easily read over the white background. at the bottom right of the page there is an advertisement for a subscription to the magazine and because we read from right to left this wil be the last thing the reader sees and so they will think about it more and maybe want to subscribe.
Well done George. I've commented the same thing on Tom Parkin's blog but try and evaluate how hard this style of contents will be to emulate. How many pictures have been used? How many different artists will you therefor have to create?
ReplyDeleteFinally what style of magazine are you creating? At the minute you analysed lots of different styles, try and be more focused in your analysis.