contents page- research

i am going to look at different contents pages to show the convections of them.

i have chosen this contents page, because it is different and plain but really striking and eye catching and this is how i want my contents page to be like. the colours are very plain and simple but they will fit with the magazine it has come from.

 i have chosen this one because it is totally different than the other one because of the colours and the layout they have used, but its the same because they have only used one picture and this is quite typical for contents pages rather then loads of pictures covering the page.

i have chosen both these contents pages as they are both different and they will grab the readers attention. in the first contenst page they have done the girl lying down and balancing all the ideas up, i think this works really well because it is different. the chose of colours they have chosen to use are non typical as you would expect bright, warm colours but this contents have challenged media and gone with the black and white look to be different, the title is very big and broken up which will certaintly grab the readers attention as soon as they open it because it stands out. the background is very plain which means you dont get distracted and so you can focus on the text more. even though the girl is led down she is still looking at he camera, which she is giving direct address to the reader by making them feel more involved in the magazine. they have also split the different catogries up which means you can focus more on what you want to read rather than reading the whole magazin if you wanted.
In the second contents page i have used they have put a bright, warm image on the top right hand side of the page which as soon as you flip over your magazine the image and the colour will catch your eye. the word 'contents' is just plain white so that we dont get distracted by the amount of colour used,it also makes the image stand out more because it is on top of it. The background colour used is white so that we can read everything it says on the page without having to work around the background colour. they have numbered the pages, so it makes it easier to read the magazine so that if you dont want to read it all you can just look at certain pages.
These are both good contents pages but both different which caught my eye because they stand out more and make the magazine itself seem more interesting to read.