Rolling Stone Contents Page Analysis

In this contents page, a similar colour scheme with fairly limited font variation. This allows for a distinct house style to be formed as well as making the content minimalistic which allows the reader to read the magazine with greater ease as it allows for greater amounts of cohesion. Alongside this, it makes the page seem more professional and places importance on the text itself, which is what members of the target audience would be most attracted to. Also, the typical audience of a Rolling Stone reader is 20 years old and onwards, and the style of the font reflects this as the style of both the fonts and the page itself is quite mature. The use of images that are not only related to music helps to expand the target demographic, and the picture of an animal in this case helps to appeal to members of the audience that are interested in other areas of interest, not just music.

For my own contents page, I am planning on having a title at the top, much like this, to indicate that it is the contents page, and use similar fonts and colours around it to that used on the front cover for my masthead. This is to contribute to creating a distinct house style that will be fluent throughout my magazine. Also, I was planning on using around three images for my contents page, and have them in a similar layout in relation to the text, with the images on one side and the text on the other.