Here is the finished contents page for my music magazine (left) and an example of a

published contents page from NME Magazine, and as I compared the points from my front

cover to those of an urban magazine I felt that it was only relevant to compare my contents

to a genre from the complete other end of the spectrum – Indie Rock. There are many points from this contents which I highly admire and there are also a few key adjustments that I

would have made personally had I have been producing it myself.

Here is what you would probably call the “mast head” of my contents - it is the main title that informs the audience on what exactly the purpose of the page itself is. With my generalised target audience being anyone of a relatively young – (young adults) I decided that from the house style that I set with my front cover I must use bright colours to not only catch their attention- but to keep their interest. My choices of bright colours were blue, yellow and pink – generally bright, pastel and overall happy colours, this sets a quite positive feel for the reader to my magazine. It is particularly suitable for the music followers of the pop genre as they are usually associated with these colours. However, in today’s day and age, dress codes in certain stereotype groups are constantly changing. For instance, take “Emos” because they are associated with rock music, peoples first impressions are that they wear black, however after visiting my city centre for possible images to use in my magazine I established that their style is quite the opposite and as discussed in my music tribes Power Point- they may wear black, but they like the idea of contrast, mixing a bright yellow or pink. Another example is the tribe that is “Jerks”. Initially, their style is quite unique and with music instigators such as “New Boyz” and “Ranger$” it is not surprising that their style is passed onto music listeners as it is very bright and interesting. A usual “Jerks” outfit consists of usually the bright colours that I have used on my magazine, contents and double page spread. They usually wear items such as skinny jeans, New Era caps and brightly coloured usually slogan t-shirts.

Here is the “Seein Sounds” hopefully trademarked logo, by repeatedly spreading it across the

magazine it will become a familiar logo to the readers and hopefully some what instantly

recognisable. In the case of distributing, institutions such as BBC and SONY they use their logo on many

other mediums of entertainment and promotion, and hopefully depending on the success of my

product, I could do the same. I felt that this was a good feature to copy from “NME” magazine as their trade mark logo is recognised all over the UK and if

not the whole world.

Here is the main contents page image, not only is it in reference to the image used on my front cover, but also the main article, so in it’s own way it is

keeping the house style generic and consistent. By being consistent

throughout the magazine, it keeps the reader comfortable and engaged

throughout as they are focused on the main article which moreover is the most

important feature of the magazine. Because of the Polaroid effect that I

used on my main cover image, which was a long shot, I decided to change this camera angle to show technical

variation and the styling of the “model” used. The pose is quite, “broken” looking, which I feel is quite edgy

however there are softer aspects to make her look more approachable such as the soft glow effect that I added. I felt that it was important that the “model” was giving strong eye contact to the audience to keep the feel of personal

establishment that I have tried to create and maintain so far. After deeply

analysing the NME contents page, I felt that the main criticism that I had was the choice of images, the lighting of them and also their relevance. I felt

they were pretty boring, dull and irrelevant. Because of this, I have tried to create the exact opposite effect with

mine.

Here is the pug that I have analysed previously on my front cover analysis

page, by using this repetitively I feel that I am re iterating the celebration of the 200th

issue.

Here are the other four articles that I have explained in depth on my contents page. As a reader, from personal experience I have felt – especially in the NME magazine on the first slide – that the contents pages can feel very cramped and too much for the eye to take, even though they may be informative personally I got the impression that they were slightly cluttered. Even though I did see this as a bad point for NME magazine, I did like the depth that they went into when describing each article, so I chose to go into depth with my articles but just not feature as many to give a easy on the eye light feel. To emphasise the fact that my magazine is multi genre I felt that the contents page was a crucial factor into displaying this, therefore I must show an array of different artists from different genres to make this obvious. Collectively on my front cover and contents page the genres that I have displayed in this particular issue are : Grime, Rock, Indie, Alternative, R n B and Dance/House/Techno - however, my main “Influence – Style Speaks” article does explore many more genres, stereotypes and tribes.