Music Magazine Contents Page Research

These examples of Indie Music Magazine contents pages show a number of common
features, all of them show a photo of the cover artist but the size of the image varies
with each magazine. I have decided to also follow this trend and I like the idea of
using a full page image of the contents page like shown by the contents page of the
magazine, SPIN, above. The text size for the page is fairly consistent across the
different magazines with small text for the story descriptions and slightly bigger text
for the artists name or story titles. The biggest difference between the magazines is
Main Features
of the
Contents
Thethe layout; this is individual
to the different
magazines
andPage
reflects the style of the
logo/magazi
magazine to appeal to the reader. The layout of my contents page will be the way I
ne am
name
able
is to brand my magazine and capture the target audience. Some of the
generally
captions
in are in shapes and boxes for some magazines whereas I prefer the contents
thepages
left top
where the captions and text are more a part of the background picture and I
corner of the
contents
page

Picture of
the cover
artist with
varying size
depending
on the
magazine

Some text in
shapes and
boxes

Colour scheme
remains consistent
from the cover and
a lot use the logo
/magazine name
colour for the rest of

Varying layouts with different

magazines, some keeping text
and pictures separate, others
overlapping them