Contents Analysis

The following are the conclusions and conventions I have discovered from researching contents pages from real media products. I hope to include these in my own final product.

• The title of the contents page, usually sticks with the same font, style and colours as the front cover to carry over the same house style.
• The text body conventionally fits into the width of one third of the entire page.
• The listing of each page conventionally includes the headline, a brief description and the page number in chronological order.
• It is common to include an editors letter or note.
• Deals, competitions and discounts are usually mentioned again on the contents page.

Regular VS Feature Content

• The standard content of all three of these music magazines have listed their reappearing stories alongside a page number in list format.
• The standard content that is listed also includes stories or articles that may not featured a specific popular artist or interview and therefore is also presented in list format beside a number.
• Feature content can been shown with an extra image or bigger and bolder writing on the contents page; usually in the centre or middle of the list of standard content. For example, In the Q magazine the feature content would be the images with bold headings in the top left hand corner.