Deconstruction of Contents Page

Final Contents Page

I laid the title of my contents page out like this to create a modern and original look. This layout also helps to create a casual and informal look, this partly conforms to the stereotype that fans of my chosen genre of music are youthful and unlikely to respond to a formal layout and appearance. As well as this, the title looks very modern, again this represents the social group of my target audience as being young and fashionable. Since even a small detail like the title of the contents page has been stylised, this also represents this social group as having attention to detail and caring about appearance.

I thought this to be the perfect font I had been thinking of in my plan. This is because due to its italic layout and swirly letters, it implies sophistication and upper class. I have challenged the stereotype of my young audience, fans of urban music, since these are not
necessarily features associated with my target audience nor necessarily fans of my genre, but they are associated with the artists of the urban genre of music since they try to portray an image of riches and luxury. This helps to portray the genre of my music magazine, thus appealing to my audience. As well as this, it helps to demonstrate the stereotype of said artists. I also chose to use this font for my categories so as to help them stand out and make my contents page look more interesting. This also helps to show that they are in fact titles and separate them from the rest of the text.

I used plain fonts for the page listings so as to help keep the page neat and tidy as requested by my target audience in my survey. I wrote the titles in capitals similarly to the contents page I previously deconstructed. I also did this since writing in upper case can be associated with my chose genre of music, thus it helps to appeal to my audience and keep the urban theme going. I did the descriptions in the same font but in lower case to help the two contrast and also to create a stylised look, since typically members of my audience are again interested in appearance. This shows attention to detail and is not often seen in magazines or other media forms, hence it creates a certain image for my magazine. The description also helps to appeal to readers since it implies something is happening that they may miss out on - something everyone else will be going to. The results of my survey as filled in by my target audience also told em that events were very important as far as my readers were concerned and therefore I made sure to include a listing to do with events on my contents page.

This suggests that 'Blast' sets trends - something associated with the artists of my chosen genre who are often known have their own 'look'. This will ring true with my readers and again helps to portray the genre of music magazine mine is.

This list almost rhymes, making a catchy headline. This may be seen to refer to some of the music of this genre which is known for being both catchy and rhyming. As well as this, I've used colloquial words such as 'Tunes' to refer to music. This is both informal and casual and will appeal to my target audience due to its colloquial nature.

Titles such as this do not have any description, suggesting that they are regulars in the magazine, suggesting I have long term readers. On top of this the use of the word 'Inbox' to show that this page is where peoples letters and thoughts go, shows that the readers use email to communicate with the magazine as opposed to letters. This portrays the magazine as modern and the readers as young since this a modern form of communication. This is a use of technology jargon - something younger members of the public are more friendly with.

I made the picture quite transparent so that whilst it would be a focus of the contents page, it would also be part of the background and could be partly written on. The combination of black and white was almost too strong to begin with whilst the picture was completely opaque as well. The image almost represents the readers, looking young and casual. This image conforms to the stereotype that all teenagers and young adults do is hang round on street corners wearing hoodies. I decided to conform to this particular stereotype because it has strong connotations of my particular genre. As well as this, a lot of artists associated with this genre are American. Since this stereotype is strongest in England, I included it because it helps to demonstrate that despite the fact that most of the artists that will appear in the magazine are American, this magazine is British. This image is also in reference to page 42 'Sophie Abbott - her life, love and music'.' Whilst some magazines may have written the page number and story title actually on the image so as to demonstrate that the image is relevant to that particular story, I decided not to. This narrows down my target audience strictly to people who are familiar/fans of this genre of music. This is done via the way in which people will have to know who the image is of in order to know which story she is in reference to.

The issue number and date have been written here just to date the page for any future reference since magazine pages can be often found on the Internet. Some magazines also choose upload certain pages to their website, this shows that this is a possibility with my magazine. This also helps give the magazine a professional look.