Q Contents Page Research

This is the first contents page research that I am going this is a contents page from Q music magazine. I will be doing five of these, I have all ready done five covers and five double page spreads.

The first thing that I see when look at this contents page is the way that there are the squares with the photo in of the people that are on that page, there is also the page numbers. The photos and the page numbers are in squares. Most of the page is taken up with three of these squares. There is then the column down the left hand side with the rest of the pages in. I feel that this looks good but these pages also have descriptions in the column which is important otherwise there is no idea how they are if the reader does not need them. But something that I do not like is that there is then only five pages listed on the contents page. Which I feel is not enough, so on my contents page there is going to be a lot more than just five as I feel that this is a to small amount of pages to give information about.

There is the column that is down the left side of the page which has other pages in but it does not have all of the pages in this list there are only the pages that they feel that will be the most popular. I feel that this is not very good as then you have no idea of what is on the other pages. The column just shows features that are in this issue of the magazine.

Within the features column there is the top page that has a picture with it but the others do not have photos so this shows that this is the top one. The text is also different with this one as there is black bigger bold font for the name of the page and then the description of the page is in red and in a bigger font. There is also more of a description about this page. Something that I like that has been gone for this pages photo is that there is a mouse next to the name of the page and the photo, to show that this page is about “140 songs to download now!”. I like the way that they have used another thing to link to this page I may do this with one of my pages in my contents page.

The colour scheme that is being used on this contents page is the normal colours that Q use which are red, white and black as these are the colours that are used in every issue of their magazine. I think that it would be good to have a colour scheme that is really well know and runs through the whole of the magazine like with this magazine.

There is a bar at the top of the page that has the music magazine’s logo with the word contents next to it and then there is Q’s slogan under this which is “Discover Great Music”. Under this there is a circle which is red like the magazine main colour which they always use in there magazine with the issue number of this magazine inside of it.

Something that is small and normally forgotten about is the page number the issue month and year and the logo that are in the corner of all of the pages in magazines.  These are important when reading a magazine. I will be having all of these things on the bottoms of all of my pages. There is also something else at the bottom of this page but this is on the left side, which is the website address that you can subscribe to the magazine at. This is something that is one a lot of magazine contents pages where they try to make people subscribe to their magazine. I will be putting a website address on my contents page.

When looking closely at the background of this contents page it is not just white, it has very faded out photo from things that are in the magazine like in the top left corner there is the cover of the magazine with Lana on faded out there are also other photos as well covering the whole of the page. I do not really like this i think that it look a bit weird as you can just see the photos and also they can be seen through the main picture on this page.