Friday, 5 October 2012

Deconstruction of contents page.









Masthead
How is it positioned?

The masthead is positioned at the top left “Q” and it is also in the ‘Pugs’ region.


Font Style
The font is the general style of Q magazine and suits well in contrast to the contents text.


Colour
The colour of the masthead fits in really well with the tone of the page as it doesn’t draw too much attention to itself but Is easy to find in – case you need to find it.




Where on page is it positioned?
 The masthead is positioned in the top left area also known as the pugs region.


Necessary Information


Date
October 2008



Issue Number
267



Page number
3




Where are they positioned?
Bottom-right.




Website info Links


Font
What font is used?
Calibri


Are there different font styles
Why is this
Yes there are, the reason is to let the reader know that what they are reading is not the same thing.


Are italics used where how?
Italics are used on the Masthead.

Bold text?
The “CONTENTS” is in bold.

Images??
How many?
2

What size?
Large and wide medium

What are they of?
One is of a band, and one is of a man in a suit standing next to a roman style pillar.

Are the images anchored? (i.e. by a caption?)
Yes they have captions leading to the page number of which the article is about.

Is there writing over any of the images?
Only the page numbers and a little bit of information.


Positioning of images?
One is at the top and takes up 1/3 of the page; the other is along the bottom.

Composition
Framing?
There is no frame in this magazine.

Layout?
The layout is standard for a magazine of this type and genre, a big image then one smaller one, with contents on the right hand side and information about them small image to compensate for not having a bigger image.


Layering?
N/A

Relation of text to images?
The images have text on them which relates to them because there is page numbers on the text which is relevant to the images.

Image led?

Text led?

Linguistic features
Rhetorical questions?
N/A
Alliteration?
“Cash for Questions” Not exact alliteration but it sounds similar.
Assonance?
n/a
Enigma Codes?
n/a
Puns?
N/A
Anything else of note?
There are some quotes giving information about the story on the page number given.
Effect of linguistic features?
It really makes the reader want to turn to the page with the quotes on and read more.

Colour
How many colours are used for text?
The text is only Black and white. But with opposite backgrounds so the white text has a black background and the black text has a white background; this has a few exceptions where the white texts has a red background.

Colours of images?
Standard colour of images

Effect of colours?
Standard effect on the reader which makes the reader want to read the text and not focus too much on the image, which is what is aimed for mostly.

Music style for magazine.

I want my magazine style to be this kind of music style.
This is a genre of music that I really love and listen to all the time therfore it would make sense that I make my magazine about this style of music.

The crack contents conventions.

At the top is he masthead, then underneath is the date. There is a list of the magazines staff and their emails. Along the left hand side of the page there is an advert for a television broadcasting company. Closer to the bottom there is an industrial distributor mention. Underneath the distribution there is an address with a telephone number along side it. At the very bottom there is the price of the subscription and more information on addresses with a website address. In the bottom right there is a page number indicating the number of the page of contents. Finally there are images along the right hand side with the page numbers accompanying them.