Clash And Q Contents Page Analysis

 The magazine uses two images on this contents page.These have been constructed by placing the relevant image next to or on top of the piece of text that it relates to. These support my initial findings about the style of the magazine because it tells me that the magazine is very organised in where they have placed their texts and images. The text is all in line underneath and next to each other which shows that some thought has gone into the style. Some magazines' contents page have text randomly spread out over the page but this one all fits together. My initial findings about the intended audience proves my point about 'Q''s target audience because they have chosen to use both young female and males for their images. Adele is quite young aged 23 and the boys front 'The last shadow puppets' in the image are aged from 25 to 39.

The colours red, white, grey and black are mainly used. This supports the style of the front cover because it is still the same colour scheme and has the 'Q' sign twice on the page so if you was to see the contents page on its own then the audience would be able to recognise this.

The information is organised into different sections with similar content, so that it is easy to access because the audience will be able to look at the section titles and see which articles they would like to read. The different sections are the 'feautures', 'every month', 'women in music' and 'review'. This tells me that that the magazine includes things like crosswords and subscriptions at the end of the magazine every month because they have chosen to name the title 'every month'. This also tells me that the magazine has an appeal to women because they have a section about the women in music which would be a bit more interesting for women to read as the can relate more to this.

The magazine logo is placed twice on the page and always on the left hand side of text. It is quite dominant because it is a different colour to the other pieces of text surrounding it so it makes the logo stand out more.

Clash uses various different images on their content page. These images have been constructed at the bottom of the page to give the page a bit more flare to it. These support my initial findings about the style of the magazine because the contents page is quite stylish but simple. It tells me that the page was intended for 18-26 year olds because the page does not have as many colours compared Q's contents page and it is not as eye catching because their target audience don't need to be drawed into any promotions etc.

Black and white are used for the text and the background. The only colourful colours that are used are in the pictures which focus more attention onto them. This kind of supports the style of the front cover because both the colours of the front cover and contents page's are quite dull and a San Serif font is also used.

The information is organised into subheadings and then titles of the articles and things that are going to be inside so that the reader can look at the sub headings to see which article they would like to read. This makes it accessible because it saves the reader the time of having to skim through all of the articles and looking for which one they would like to read. The different sections are 'Features', 'Regulars' and 'Fashion'.This tells me that the magazine has very a very big range of articles because there are only three sections.

The magazine logo is not placed anywhere on the page because it is probably quite dominant so they thought readers would establish that it is a Clash contents page so they didn't need to put it anywhere.