Music Magazine contents and double page spread.

Music magazine contents and double page spread conventions...

I looked at three music magazine's contents pages and double page spreads to find out the usual conventions of them to help me with my own music magazine's contents.

I looked at Touch magazine, I discovered that the contents had a famous woman in a red dress which matched the font and colour scheme of the page. The contents numbers also start at page five because the contents doesn't include the front cover the contents and a    few other pages. The double pages spread in Touch magazine '411 girls' followed the same colour scheme as the contents, red. It was a gossip page with photos of celebrities and people clubbing.

I then looked at Uncut magazine which is published by IPC media and the publisher is Faith Hill. On the contents there is five pictures, one is the main photo bigger than the others. The colour scheme is red, black, white and cream. Uncut magazine focuses on it's main features on the contents. The double page spread in Uncut magazine follows the same colour scheme as the contents, red, black, white and cream. It has two small pictures. It's a feedback page where people can write in and comment on anything in the last issue of the magazine.

The last magazine I looked at was Mixmag which is published by 'Development Hell'. On the contents there is one big pictures of the main band the magazine is featuring. The numbers start at page 37 and has seven features in the magazine. The colour scheme is white, yellow and black. The double page spread is a V.I.P page  which is similar to the feedback page in Uncut magazine as it gives people a chance to write into the magazine and talk about gigs they had been too. It has one big picture and eight smaller pictures. It also shares the same colour scheme as the contents page, which all the magazines I have looked at do.