Contents page 5: Q magazine

I have decided to analyse this contents page that occurs in Q magazine because the image on the page looks very indie and also Q is a indie magazine and my magazine is going to be based on indie rock so analysing this will be beneficial for me.

The image that is on the page covers up around 2/3 of the page, this infers that the magazine is going to be aimed around the artist in the image because he is dominating the contents page.  The image is very indie because the artist is looking away from the camera and doesn't really care about the camera, this is showing typical indie 'swagger'. The image has a page number formatted to the image, this is beneficial for the audience so that they know where to go to find an article on the artist in the image. The title is highlighted in a red background and this is effective because it's keeping up the Q magazine colour theme and making it consistent.  The title appears at the top of the page and it is called 'contents' this is very boring because mainly all of the other magazines use this title for their contents page, to improve this they could have made it their own like the NME did by calling it something like 'New this week'.  There is another image at the top left hand side of the page, this is good because it shows variation of the artists in the magazine.  Underneath the smaller image there is a column that shows other artists that have a article in the magazine and these artists that are listed are page numbered so that the audience know where to go to find an article on a certain artist.  The main background is in a white background and this is effective because the red and black font colours stand out and are easily read by the audience.  For some piece of important text there are little pieces of formatting underlining this text to and this is effecive because it makes the text stand out.
For my overall contents page I will also use more than one image to show variation of my magazine.  Finally I will also ad formatting to certain pieces of font so that the font stands out compared to normal font.