Monday, 13 October 2014

Textual analysis of existing texts- Deconstructing Q contents page

Here is a contents page for Q magazine. Unlike the NME contents page that I looked at, this contents page actually has a title saying contents. I think I prefer a contents page that doesn't have a title. As a reader I can work out that it is a contents page without it saying it. This contents page is similar to the NME contents page because it has the logo on the page. It also has a images on the contents page with large numbers telling what page the reader can find the images. From my research I have found that images are a really important part of music magazines. On this contents page it looks as though it has a section for model credit. Sometimes this is on the cover but for this magazine it looks as though under the section called "on the cover " it might explain the images on the cover. This is an idea I could use. This music magazine does not have a band index like the NME contents page but similar to NME the contents is split up into sections. Such as "up front & features" Setting a contents page up into sections is effective because it makes it really clear for the reader. The colour red is very prominent on this contents page which makes it look really bold. I like how on this contents page the logo is overlapping the image. This suggests the importance of the logo.  On the NME contents page there is an advert to subscribe to the magazine. Q seems more about advertising what is in the issue. I like the idea of using pictures to explain what is in the magazine. I also like having quotes and then page numbers scattered around the contents page. Like on the bottom of this contents page where it has a quote from Chris Moyles.

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