Why to Include items on Contents Page
I have decided that similarly to the front cover, there are some features which all of the contents pages I have researched have on. Items such as the page number, some kind of contents list, and the magazine name, an editors “box” with words in and several pictures. I think that it is important to include an editors prologue because this links the people who make the magazine and the readers, the readers can see what is important to the magazine makers and will entice them even more into the magazine because they may share the same values, strong evidence to support this is of Closer magazine which have put in a persuasive piece of writing in the editors column arguing why a specific drug should be made illegal. I think that all the other items on the page are necessary and no explanation is needed to explain why I have decided to put the onto my contents page. A contents page includes what the content of the magazine is and a guide to what page each particular story or feature is on.
I have however found that there are differences between each of the contents pages I have looked at, the way they are all presented are very different. I have decided that the 2 I like the best are from Heat and Closer magazines, they are both quite organized and clear, yet still look busy. I have been influenced by these when roughly sketching out my ideas, my friends and mum who has seen my composition plans have advised me on which one they think is best and how I could make improvements on each composition. I have finally decided that the composition I like best and will use is composition 3. This is because it is structured into 3 columns, and the left and right columns seem to frame the centre contents list, so attention is drawn to it. I think that this one is better than compositions 1 or 2 because it is not as dull as composition 1, and more full and busy than composition 2. However, I do quite like the simplicity of composition 2, but for the target audience I am marketing towards, I think that it is necessary that the page is similar to the front page – busy and alive!
I have decided that similarly to the front cover, there are some features which all of the contents pages I have researched have on. Items such as the page number, some kind of contents list, and the magazine name, an editors “box” with words in and several pictures. I think that it is important to include an editors prologue because this links the people who make the magazine and the readers, the readers can see what is important to the magazine makers and will entice them even more into the magazine because they may share the same values, strong evidence to support this is of Closer magazine which have put in a persuasive piece of writing in the editors column arguing why a specific drug should be made illegal. I think that all the other items on the page are necessary and no explanation is needed to explain why I have decided to put the onto my contents page. A contents page includes what the content of the magazine is and a guide to what page each particular story or feature is on.
I have however found that there are differences between each of the contents pages I have looked at, the way they are all presented are very different. I have decided that the 2 I like the best are from Heat and Closer magazines, they are both quite organized and clear, yet still look busy. I have been influenced by these when roughly sketching out my ideas, my friends and mum who has seen my composition plans have advised me on which one they think is best and how I could make improvements on each composition. I have finally decided that the composition I like best and will use is composition 3. This is because it is structured into 3 columns, and the left and right columns seem to frame the centre contents list, so attention is drawn to it. I think that this one is better than compositions 1 or 2 because it is not as dull as composition 1, and more full and busy than composition 2. However, I do quite like the simplicity of composition 2, but for the target audience I am marketing towards, I think that it is necessary that the page is similar to the front page – busy and alive!
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