Contents Page Deconstruction

Contents Page – Deconstruction

Feature	Description
Masthead?? How is it positioned? Font Style? Colour Where on page is it positioned?	The masthead “NME” is positioned on the top left hand corner of the page; this is because the audience will look at this first because the audience genially start to read from the top left corner of the page. The title is bold so it stands out more and the colour is red so it stands out more.
Necessary Information?? Date? Issue Number? Page number? Where are they positioned? Website info? Links?	The date is positioned underneath and to the right of the masthead. The page numbers are down the left hand side of the page with the title of the article alongside them. The website and phone number is at the bottom of the page next to the subscription offer so the audience know where to go to get the offer.
Text?? What is it? Form of address? How much text? What is its purpose? Subheadings? Order? Layout? Use of numerical features?	The text here is about the main sell line “The Arctic Monkeys”. It is there to give the audience a brief explication on what the article is about. The text is not very much because the audience will not want to know too much about the article before they read it.
Font?? What font is used? Are there different font styles? Why is this? Colour? Are italics used? Where? How? Bold text?	The font used is a black bold font; they have done this so that the audience will be attracted to it and want to read on. Different styles of font are used on this contents page, for example the text on the main sell line has a different font to the font used on the index.
Images?? How many? What size? What are they of? Are the images anchored? (i.e. by a caption?) Is there writing over any of the images? Positioning?	Here there is only one image used. The image is pretty big, this is so that the audience/ reader’s attention will be immediately on the image, this gives them an idea on what the article will be about, here it uses a picture of The Arctic Monkeys, this will tell the audience/ reader that on page 45 there is an article about the band The Arctic Monkeys
Composition?? Framing? Layout? Layering? Relation of text to images? Image led? Text led?	The framing used here on the image is that it has been placed in the top left corner, it has been placed here because the reader’s attention is immediately focused on the top left corner. The layout used on the text is so it is directly underneath the picture so after the reader sees the picture they will want a bit of information on what the picture is about.
Linguistic features?? Rhetorical questions? Alliteration? Assonance? Enigma Codes? Puns? Anything else of note? Effect of linguistic features?	Here we can see a rhetorical question that asks the audience “How exited should we be about them?” this is almost like it is telling the audience that no matter what they should be exited, but asking the question about how exited we should be instead of are we exited?
Colour?? How many colours are used for text? Colours of images? Effect of colours?	Here on this part of the magazine (contents page) we can see 4 different colours (red, white, black and yellow). The colours of the image seem to relate to the style of the contents page by using a black background with hints of red in the background.

Student Feedback

Feedback Sheet – Student Work

Please refer to photography, colour, layout, font style, framing and cropping as well as font style and actual text in your response.

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Name of product	What I thought were the strengths	What I thought were the weaknesses
New Wave	The double page spread has some good quotes and some good text in it.  All of the images are their own. Contains all the appropriate information on the front cover. The layout used is good and makes the magazine look a bit better. The grade I would give this would be C	The images where blurry. The font doesn’t really stand as much as you would like it to and this may not get the audience to buy the magazine. The pictures in the double page spread are really close together which makes it look messy. I don’t think that the colour scheme is good because it doesn’t match the theme of the magazine.
Shattered	The only thing that I thought was good about this piece of work was the interview on the double page spread. On the interview it gives the audience a good amount of information about the band. The grade I would give this would be F	The pictures on the front cover, content page and the double page spread are all very poor. They all look like they were taken I a rush in order to finish the piece of work, for example on the front cover we can see the back garden of someone’s house in the background, overall I think the whole piece of work seems rushed and unorganised.
Viue	One thing I think is good about this piece of work is the images. None of the images used are not blurry and are very easy to see clearly. Also I think that on the double page spread it gives out a good piece of information to the audience/ reader. The grade I would give this would be D	The bad thing about this piece of work is that on the contents page is the fact that they are not all of his own images. On the bottom left corner we can see an image of Noel Gallagher, which as we can see very clearly is not his own image.
Varsity	The thing I like about this piece of work is the images. On the front page the main image is in black and white, I think this adds effect to it and I think it makes it look a lot better. Also the fact that all of the images are taken on been used of the internet makes this piece of work a lot better. The grade I would give this would be C	The bad thing about this piece of work is the font used on the double page spread. In my opinion the font used is dull and boring which does not match the mood that is set by the front cover and the double page spread.
AM	The good thing about this piece of work is the double page spread. I think that the information that is given is a good amount and the font that is used. The font that is used is big and bold which will stand out to the audience and make them want to keep reading. The grade I would give this would be D	I think that the images that are used in this piece of work are bad.  I think that they are bad because all of them seem to be blurry and faded which makes the magazine look worse than it is. Another bad thing about this piece of work is the contents page, I think that it all seems crammed together and makes it look untidy.