Friday 15 February 2013

Music Magazine: Contents Page Analysis 4

This contents page from an issue of Mojo is image based, with the text taking shape around the focus of the photograph. The photograph is in black and white and the colour scheme follows this. The text is black and the page numbers are red. The headers are in capitals while the subheadings are lower case. The subheadings, in terms of size, are basically paragraphs, whereas in other magazines they aren't much more than a sentence. There seems to be less reliance on photographs and graphics in this magazine than in another magazine, such as NME or Kerrang. This gives the magazine a fairly formal, clean and modern style. Mojo probably has a more niche audience, interested more in the articles and what is written in the magazine and about the music, and it shows.

The title of the magazine is at the top of the screen in the centre, as opposed to the top left where it appears in other magazines. The logo itself is fairly simple and easily recognisable. Beneath it is the issue number and the date of the issue. This text is against a photographic background without any bombastic, colourful graphics, giving the magazine a more muted tone.

There is also a quote featured beside the figure in the photograph. The text is slightly larger and the font    is slightly different from the rest of the page, more like a typewriter style font. This helps distinguish it  from the rest of the text.

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