Contents Page Analysis

This contents page has typical conventions of magazine contents pages, there is a large image that is relevant to a storyline in the magazine, and the pages are advertised in a red font down the side with black text that have bigger font for the subheadings and then smaller for the information about the topics underneath these subheadings. The magazine contents page above however differs, as the pages are referred to as 'departments' which is obviously something that is connected to the magazine 'icons' and so the reader will understand that this is the style the magazine have chosen to use, the old fashioned formal style. The 'departments' are typical to conventions of magazines contents pages because they are the 'features', which is the main pages that the issue is advertising specifically as the reader dosent usually get to see these stories or content, as the features are specific to each issue, but also there may be regular content like 'news' and 'letters to the editor'.

The contents page fits to the house colour, this magazine sticks to red, black and white, even the image is in black and white, however this also may link to the old fashioned icon theme.

The contents page also has borders with information of the issue number and date to remind the reader of the magazine they are reading being constantly advertised with the date, so they know the information is new and unique to the issue/date.

This contents page is also very typical to conventions of magazine contents pages, there are images with captions that show the extra information about the image, but also reference to the cover, and content that will appear further in the magazine. There are sections of content, the 'remix', 'headliners' and 'features', the remix and headliners sections are showing that the content of this magazine is music related, and the mainstream genre is occuring with the lexis of the subheadings. We can connotate that the sections are mainstream artists that are important to the audience or maybe are the use of the words to describe importance of a range of topics, for example, 'TV' is under 'Headliners' maybe to show the popular TV content of the month/week of the issue. The features are left with more body text because they are unique to the issue so are advertised because impulse buyers will be attracted to features as they are not buying the magazine every issue, so are not loyal to the magazine.