Case study: Analysis of contents page

This contents page is from the magazine shout, which is revolved around celebrity and you tuber gossip, therefore the contents page is created to attract the target audience to it with the various different colours. the main colours in the sequence are purple with sharp bursts of pink, again referring to the target audience are reflective of them and also eye catching to them as well, the effectt of having the pink on purple colour contrasts is that, the bright pink stands out to the darker purple colour, drawing the readers attention to that specific section of text.

The design of the contents page is very cramped and i personally feel like everything is being thrown at you at once, which i think that the designer was trying to do, because its trying to compare it to the genre of the magazine, its a gossip magazine, and all the news is being thrown at you one piece after the other, and feels very messy and unorganised, which the magazines contents page is trying to reflect to us the readers.

The way that the contents page layout is like is that instead of telling readers the page number and title of each article, it gives us an image of the page that each article is on, so that the audience can see what that individual article is about, and know if they want to read that page or not. The contents page also shows pictures of the fans of the magazine winning various awards and in general having fun, they choose to feature this because it will keep the target audience come back to see if they feature in the magazines next issue. Also all the magazines social media links are on the contents page, so that fans can keep up to date with the magazines content online daily