Media studies!

For section A you should analyse a magazine contents page that relates to one of your front cover analysis e.g. NME/Rolling Stone cover and contents page.
I did this analysis on a Q magazine.

Does the magazine use images?
Yes, most of the contents page is full of images.

How have these images been constructed?
The pictures have the main interest of portraying 'bands/singers' in different ways: bad or good, low angle or high angle and depth of field shots.

How do they support your initial findings about the style of the magazine and its intended audience?
This shows me this magazine does not have one focus, but focuses on several different genres and audiences but in different additions of the magazine.

What colours and fonts are used?
The writing is mainly black apart from a quote that is red and a paragraph in grey writing, the quote is red to stand out from the rest of the writing. The black writing for the contents shows that all the articles are as important as each other. For fonts bold writing is used for titles and sub titles whereas for the text under these titles is not.

Does this support the style of the front cover? How is the information organised so that it is accessible to the audience?
The contents is located on both the left and right side of a double page spread with images in the middle. this supports the front page as it has the smae layout and in a way the same people in another picture. it is organised in a simple way so the audience can breifly look at the page, read the bold titles and flick to that page in the magazine.

What are the different sections? What does this tell you about the magazine?
There is a part on the main topic which was on the front cover 'U2', there is a section on 'John Humphrys' and other titles. This tells me that the different articles in the magazine are largely different in the size and in a way genre.

Are there any promotional features?
Not in the contents no.

Is the magazine logo placed anywhere on the page? How dominant is it?
The logo is located right under the word Contents, this does make in quite dominant and reminds you what magazine you are reading. Also by the page numbers there are small logos.

Does the brand have any other franchises?
I am not certain but I can't see any.

Are these promoted on the contents page?
No, but if they have not got any franchises and in the future did, they could well be advertised in the contents.

For section B you should compare this magazine contents page to another magazine's contents page (NME). How does this magazine, aimed at a different audience compare with Q?! How would you describe the layout of its contents page? Does it remind you of anything? What does this say about the audience?
For the NME contents page, the most visable thing is that it is all fitted onto one page, instead of two like Q. The picture is smaller and is not related to the front cover main picture. The NME magazine has a layout more suited to an audience that knows what article they want to read as the text under the headings is just one line with not much information on that article.

How is this different to Q?
Q magazine has a more indepth read of the articles it shows in the contents. The picture in Q relates to its front cover where NME does not, this puts emphasis on the front cover article.