Research Task Five : The Wire Music Magazine Contents Pages

For your set brief you will have to plan and produce not just the covers for the first two editions of your independent music magazine, but also the contents page. 

For Research Task Five you will be deconstructing the contents pages for the editions of The Wire magazine that you have already analysed.

What To Do

Go the this page on The Wire's website

Find the first front cover that you analysed and access its contents page - I will show you how to do this in class.

What comments can you make about this contents page? 

Think about things such as:

• the layout of the different elements on the page
• the different sections of the magazine that are shown in the contents page
• the actual content set out in the contents page. What can be found inside the magazine? How does this link to the main coverline and other coverlines on the front cover?
• the use of typography - font, size, use capitalisation/lower case, text direction, etc
• the use of images
• the colour palette of the page
• the use of page numbers
• other information set out on the contents page

Repeat for the contents page of the second issue of the magazine that you analysed.

TASK

Take a screenshot of the contents pages.

Add these to a PowerPoint slide (one per slide) and then make notes around these based on the bullet points above.

Create a post on your blog titled:

Research Task Five : The Wire Music Magazine Contents Pages

Take screen shots of the slides you have produced and add them to your blog as images.

I have shown you how to do this in class.

Deadline

The start of our lesson on Tuesday 7th May

IF YOU ARE BEHIND WITH ANY OTHER POSTS MAKE SURE THAT THESE ARE ALSO COMPLETED BY THAT TIME.