LIIAR ANALYSIS CONTENTS PAGE

Contents Page

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The contents page will use the same colours and theme as the front cover this is so that it will start to build up a memorable house style it is important to keep the house style running throughout the magazine to make it look professional and to make the consistent theme recognisable to the audience and unique to its own magazine. It’s important I don’t use colours that other music magazines use as then it will look as though the magazine is a copy of a more famous brand. This will make the magazine lose popularity and be more unlikely to be sold as it will look ‘cheap’.

The masthead will most probably be featured on the contents page as I want to use it as an icon for people to see and recognise that it’s a well-known company. Using the icon and repeating using it will make it stick more to a publics head and they will be able to recognise it been advertised and be able to trust the icon making audience more likely to make a repeat purchase.

There will be thumbnail pictures on the contents page to advertise other stories either on the left or the right of the page, I would put them there because then they are well structured alongside of the contents making them understandable and relate to the stories. It will also create a well clear structures layout to an audience. The thumbnail images will also have a caption underneath to clearly state to the audience where the stories that belong to image are for example “page 7”.

As for the dominant image of the contents page I think I will use another image of the main band I use on the front cover. This will probably lay on the bottom right and side of the page. I think this will work because it’s advertising the exclusive story making the audience feel more involved and persuading them further into wanting to read the exclusive story. I want to use a long shot in the contents page because I feel that the whole band should be seen together maybe advertising there new C.D together and by using a long shot I will be involving the whole band making them look united and something they are going through together which will invite the audience in by giving the impression they are saying “be a part of us”. I also think that using a different range of shots and photos of the main band will keep the audience entertained by having different things to look at.

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The contents page will differentiate to other magazine contents pages because it will get the audience feeling more involved by different shots of bands and featuring many different storylines. The contents page will include tease devices like a banner advertising free gifts or vouchers which will again make the audience feel involved and part of the magazine. They will also feel satisfied with the contents page as they are gaining something extra out of there small amount of money they spend on the magazine.

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The contents page will have a positive atmosphere to the target audience as they will feel satisfied with what they gain from it e.g- free vouchers. The magazine contents will advertise a wide range of different stories and many thumbnail images to hype the audience up for what is featured inside the magazine. I want the magazine to satisfy customer needs and wants and make them feel happy with their product and what to buy the next issue.

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My target audience is both male and female over the age of 15+ when I decide upon the genre of the music the target audience will become easier defined however I think that the genre of the magazine is most likely to be alternative rock music or pop/r&b music as I feel that they are the most popular areas of interest and will be easier to target as there are more popular bands in those criteria’s. However I think that I will probably use alternative rock as that is what I listen to and I feel that I know more about that genre than anything else so therefor I will be able to create that genre better than anything else.

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I want my magazine front cover to be represented in a positive way I want people to feel satisfied with the magazine and feel as though they got their value for money. I want them to have this feeling towards the magazine as then it will get good publicity and be spread by word of mouth which is the most popular way to get teens to buy a magazine as if they here it’s good from their friends they will trust their opinion and purchase the magazine. I hope that the contents page will reflect this.