This mood board shows a variety of music magazine contents pages, the main occurring theme is rock as this is the genre I have chosen to do however there are other genres included such as indie and pop to show a wider range of ideas that I could also include in my own.

As you can see, all types of contents pages are unique, none are exactly the same. This gives me a chance to use different ideas and experiment with the use of different ideas for my own. For example I quite like the fun layout of the pop magazines however I do not like the brightness and ‘in your face’ colours that have been used. Also, for the rock magazines there is a simplistic layout which I feel is appealing so I will try and use this idea for my own contents page as it makes it look professional and not give too much away, as this is what the front cover is for.

Most of the contents pages include a main image followed by a supporting thumbnail picture, this idea is good as it hooks in the audience and is more appealing to look at rather than just a list of content. Further, the contents page that does not follow this is the middle, bottom image of the female this is due to their only being one image used. This is due to the outrageousness of the image and the fact that it is a large shot which covers the whole page and another thumbnail image would ruin the impact that this image gives.

The font on all contents pages is easy to read, this is because this is the ‘guide’ to the whole magazine, the lists of contents is always smaller than the masthead that indicates ‘what’s inside’, this is because it gives more information but the masthead is more interesting and needs to hook the reader in so that they continue to look at the page.