Content of my Contents page by Lucy Barker

Content of my contents page by Lucy Barker

As I was unsure what to advertise as part of my magazine on my contents I decided to use my target audience research to help me with ideas. It will help me in terms of planning my photo shoot for photos on my contents page because I can make them fit in with the headlines. A few of the headlines can also be mentioned on the front cover. 

Looking back at my Target audience research I can see that freebies was the most popular and gossip and personal information was the least popular answer to the question: 'What do you like most in a music magazine?' this has shown me that I should advertise the free poster included with the magazine but not include any headlines advertising interviews about personal information of artists. The research I did on contents page has shown that advertising freebies in the contents page has become a conventional idea used in a wide range of music magazines from pop magazines to rock magazines, targeting at all ages. This means it is appropiate for me to do the same.

I have decided to keep the number of photographs on my contents page to 4 becuse the research has taught me that the target audiance want it to look sophisticated and more photos would be more appropriate for a younger audience. I have planned 2 photo shoots for the contents page.

Ideas for Headlines and photos for my contents page include:
- 'Exclusive interview with the internets finest, 'Lana X'And then a picture of the artist
-  'Mother of all badgers new and exclusive photos!' On the double page spread I can include a few pictures on top of the photograph which is going to spread over the two pages.  
-I can put band names on the front cover in bold so they stand out to my target audiance and make them want to buy the magazine