'Q' contents page.

This is the first contents page that I will analyse, it is a contents page from the magazine 'Q'. The contents in this magazine is very much like the front cover, organised. As you can see the main image of the magazine or the main aim of the magazine is shown towards the top right, but is very large. As with the cover this gives a bit of information of what is inside the magazine, it also tells you the page where this article or story is positioned. This is for people who have bought the magazine solely for this one story. This is the main story; the other stories or articles are positioned down the left of the magazine in an pacific order, generally they will have the lower numbers at the top and the higher numbers at the bottom, again this shows that this magazine is organised, additionally the story that has a lower page number (so you view it before others) is the most important, they will want to have the most important news at the front of the magazine, so that people will read on and overall enjoy the magazine.

Again, like the cover there is a frame embedded around the contents page. Again this makes the magazine looks organised and professional, it also keeps the writing away from the main images, this is to make the main images be in your face and stand out above the crowd.


Most magazines have a lightly coloured background with darker colours, or a dark background with light fonts and images. This magazine goes for the light background approach, because of this most of the fonts are black, so it is easy to read, however , 'features' and 'every month' are in white, so you wouldn't expect this, but they put a dark red box over it so it stands out and keeps wth the colour scheme. This is used in other places, basically for the sub-headings, they place the white font of the caption over a black box. Finally 'Oasis Special' is in a large font as this makes it stand out, this is because it is a key part of the magazine.