Analysis of Vibe magazine contents page

This contents page has an image dominated layout, this is where there is one main image that takes up the page and the text is incorporated in it. This contents page uses sans serif and serif fonts the main title of ‘contents’ is in sans serif and looks modern and edgy like the type of music this magazine covers. However the main subheadings is in serif it looks quite feminine, which shows this issue is mainly aimed at females

There is only one image shown on Vibe Magazines contents page and this
is a long shot of a well-known music artist called, ‘Ciara’, the image and text shown aren’t colourful like most contents pages, it is uncluttered and has clear bold black and white colour scheme. The heading of ‘contents’ separates itself from the text shown to indicate page numbers of different articles inside the magazine. This sets a representation to a specific target audience as the target audience being young teenagers and young adults the image is aimed to just getting to the point and so the readers know straight away what they are going to read about.

The colours of this magazine gives an unique impression and sets the mood of the magazine to the target audience of the type of music genre for the magazine, you can see from the contents page’s colours that this magazine appeals and attracts a target audience of young teenagers and young adults who are interested and
listen to urban/dance/pop music.

This magazine uses language to address its target audience it uses sharp and snappy sentences on the contents page which will attract the target audience.