Arnold House School

ANALYSING CONTENTS PAGE

This contents page is a striking contrast to the cover page which was filled with colour and little writing, whereas the contents page is primarily words on a white background. The contents page in a magazine is very important as it directs readers to specific articles or categories. This allows the reader to read the magazine in the order that they choose, or only read the articles that they are interested in. As the reader will use this page as a reference when reading it is important that contents pages should be well laid out and clear to read and follow. This contents page is very easy to read and follow as it is well structured and the font choice is clear. This contents page breaks down the articles into 9 headings to make it as easy as possible to find specific articles or topics.

However I feel as though this contents page is boring and the reader is bombarded with text, which actually makes it more difficult to find specific articles because you have to read through a list of information to find articles. There are no pictures included in this cover page, and they would help to break up the text and direct users to specific articles.Colour is used to separate the different headings, however I feel as though colour could have been used more effectively on this page. This contents page is very boring and designed towards parents of students rather than the students themselves as this wouldn’t entice a student to read further. As there are long lists in the contents page it makes it harder to see the adjacent number to the title. This could have been improved with colouring coding of each line, or a dotted line to make it easier to follow. The page titles in this contents page are very basic and don’t tell the reader much about the actual articles. This contents page isn’t very interesting and is extremely basic. For my own magazine I hope to create a contents page that is more interesting and visually pleasing.