Research contents page: Classical magazine 2

This is a contents page for a classical music  magazine featuring Patricia Kopatchinskaja on the front cover.

House style

The contents page matches the front cover as it keeps Classical's  signature refined yet classy look through out the page. The main cover itself is layed out very neatly with a focus on it looking aesthetically pleasing which translates over to the single paged contents page nicely. The rarity of a single paged contents page goes against convention as most commonly now is a double page spread for the contents.

The font 

The magazines font is a  serif font which is ideal for a magazine with a focus on classical music, as a serif font looks classy so represents the genre of classical music nicely. The serif font is also carried on throughout the issue as the subheadings of the contents page are also in serif and in bold this makes them eye grabbing and pleasing to look at for a long time.






The photo's

The photos taken for the articles for a classical magazine will tend to be in a studio shot format as the genre has more of a focus on large events like concerts rather than an individual like how Q magazine may have a focus Lily Allen for example. Another reason why they might be taken in a studio shot format is because they are taken during an event rather that at a secluded photo shoot.

Page numbers 

The page numbers on the contents page are placed into the images but made transparent as to not hide the image, this gives it a very pleasing look to the eye and carries on the theme of classical music as it is very classy in look and blends well with the genre.

Puffs 

Puffs are colourful shapes promoting features inside of a magazine, these are used in this content's page to show the diffrent sections of the magazine at a glance to the reader. This has the affect on the reader of informing them straight away where the articles are found in the issue and what catorgery they fall under.

Codes and conventions

This contents page does follow the convention of having the main advertised articles having the largest photos on the content's page, in the issue that is Patricia Kopatchinskaja the violinist, it also breaks convention as the contents is a single page instead of the widely accepted convention of having it as two double pages.

Theorist

The only theorist that we can apply to this contents page is that of Richard Dyer " A star is not a real person, they're an image" as this contents page does apply to that as a conductor would not always walk around in in a suit they would wear street clothes showing how the magazine is giving the person this image instead of having it themselves.

How this has influenced me 

This has influenced my creativity and ideas for my magazine contents page as it has showed me a very aestheticlly pleasing layout and idea for font and a colour scheme as well as some codes and conventions that i should be aware of for when i create my contents page of my music magazine such as a image on the contents page of the cover model.