Monday, 21 January 2013

Q Magazine Contents Page


In the above image conveys the contents page of the Q magazine. Firstly looking at the composition of it; the way that the page is laid out is through a double spread, and on the left hand side has a layout of images all around the sides, with little bits of information about it on the side with its page number. However on the right hands side, it is in columns of two on the left hand side with bits of information and page numbers in order and two big images on the right and bottom. The effect this has is the way the images being laid out as a sort of collage attracts the viewer on the story, to me its basically conveying that the bigger the picture the is, the more important it is and the reader should attend to it. 

With this magazine, I cant really say there is a main image because there are many that have been laid out with some being big in size but however I can clarify that one of the images has a relation another, one about Rihanna, which is displayed on the front and also on the contents page, so if there was a main image, I would certainly say that Rihanna's is. And the reason why it would be chosen would maybe be to attract the audience due to her popularity or of how big her news story was. The style of it is how each story must have an image which sells the story itself, and with this it has the contents page number and a little bit of information about it just to give the reader that idea of what they could be reading. 

As for its Graphics, it has a similar or more or less the same sort of it through to its content page. For example the icons and logos of the Q seen on the top left, and again on the next page, not necessary on its own but with something else but its displayed, the effect this has is implanting the memory into the readers of the magazine they are reading. The amount of images that are displayed play a big role on the illustration effect, as not only is it just an image but it helps in clarifying and explaining. 

There isn't a headline however on the left hand side of the double page spread there is circle bordered bit of text, and it being at the centre of the page with images around out sort of tells me the reader that what it is saying being "2013 Q magazine Long-range forecast  relates a lot with the rest of the stories or news found in the magazine, so in a way acting as a headline. The page is defined as a contents page with the way that its laid out in columns and also with the page numbers. The fonts that have been used look like Berlin Sans FB and Arial, both having the boldness and style. And there are two main styles which seem to be used on the contents page. How the vary is through the little bit of information being given out underneath or beside the images. 

The page is also in the same colour code as it was from the start, which was the red, black and grey which carries on through and that's the way that it creates the house style, by being carried on through. The way it relates to the front cover is through the colour and also the fonts, but also the images. And by images i mean that the colour code also relates to the images, so the images displayed or picked must have a sort of dark background which creates that blending with the colours used. 


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