Research/Case Studies 6

Billboards contents page is packed full of information. It doesn’t have a limited colour palette. It’s very colourful but has a plain white background. This still gives it a formal concept.

The Masthead‘Contents’ is in a black and bold large font. That makes it stand out amongst all the other information on the page. It has white lines in each of the letters this makes it look like it’s been stencilled on, which gives it a more urban look.

On the right of the contents page, there’s a table showing what is number one in charts. It’s broken up into ‘albums’, ‘songs’ and top songs that are on billboards. It’s shown as if its awards as it have ‘top internet’ album and top ‘active rock’song. The awards are on the left column and the artists names are on the right column.

Under the Masthead it shows two close up images and one long shot, of well-known celebrities with their page number at the bottom left of the image. Whereas the main image of the female artist it has her page number next to her shoe. They possibly don’t have their names or teasers next to them, as they may have been spoken about on the front of cover of the magazine.

The overall layout of the contents page is organised as everything is in its particular section. So that it doesn’t come across confusing to the target audience and it shows that it is an expensive magazine. As the layout is neatly done.