Contents Page Mood Board And Analysis

Here is a mood board involving a mixture of contents pages from different types of music magazines. After doing some independent research, I can state that the conventions are:

·         House style

·         Page numbers

·         Trendy clothes/accessories

·         The writings are set in different fonts and colours to each other to help it stand out.

·         One image is always bigger than the rest

·         Consistent colour scheme

In The Source’s contents page, in which the central image is of Ice Cube, a close up is used. The idea behind this is to display the aggressive expression on his face, which in a way portrays the kind of rap music the artist does. Additionally, the artist’s face is being faded by the dark background, with the intention behind this being to reveal the dark side of hip-hop. The name of this magazine, ‘The Source’, has been placed at the bottom of the magazine as oppose to the top, as the creator wants the audience to be more attracted to the image instead of the masthead. The date and issue number of the magazine is in small print beneath the name of the magazine. The house style is very dark and deathly. These set of colours match with hip-hop’s unforgettable sell-line ‘Hip-hop is dead’.

[     From Q’s double page contents, we see the use of more than one image. However, the images are not of the same size or shape, as if it were it would appear quite boring. We can clearly see how the magazine intentionally made their page numbers quite huge and bold. The purpose behind this obviously being to make the numbers clear and stand out. Furthermore, the colour scheme is red and white. The colours complement each other nicely, and give off contrasting looks of danger and brightness.

The contents page above contains 7 images, with one image being larger than the rest. This is because the bigger image is of the main artist for this magazine and so the magazine is trying to gather all attention towards that artist. Moreover, the text is set in neat columns, which means for an organised look and proves quite appealing to the reader, as they can easily read and find what they are looking for.