Contents page research

NME contents pages are very classic and suit the style of a news paper eg. daily mail, guradian ect.
This is becuase of the fonts used, the title looks like that of the daily mail's or the guardian's, then the page is split up into three collumns, the middle collumn being ruffly twice the size of the outer two, this brings a great advantage as the main article in the magazine can be placed there to show its importance, this also means that smaller lower key article index's can be placed on the page. It seams that NME use the same template every week of their magazine, as you can see in these two photos, the template is the same on both, the way that the page numbers have been set out is also very helpful, the page numbers are over the pictures that they corespond to, this means that the reader can quite easily source the article that they want to read. The background colour of the contents page is white, which makes it simple and easy to put text over it using contrasting colours, a simple black text is needed without any drop shadows or blending effects, this also backs up the house style from the front covers to the contents pages.

Q contents page is completely different to that of NME although it is in three columns like that of NME's there are only to images shown on Q's contents, which make it slightly boring, this is largely becuase Q is monthly music magazine so they need to be able to fit alot of text on there whereas NME is a weekly magazine so there isnt half as much text that needs to be on there. The titles are shown either on contrasting background, either red or black to highlight the whit text that has been placed on it. The text on the contents page of Q is shown in black, as of which is NME's this makes it simple and easy to read for the reader, the page numbers are shown in red with the special numbers shown in gold.