I researched into what school magazine contents pages look like in order to help me plan and decide what to do for my magazine contents page.
In the three magazines I found all contents pages had a picture of a pupil, the articles within the magazine and the page numbers of the articles.
As I have planned to put an image of students on the cover of my magazine I have decided to use a picture of a location within the school on my contents page, along with magazine articles and the page numbers they are on.
From this research I have fount that the conventions of contents pages are a title at the top of the page to identify what the page is showing. Contents pages have pictures on the page, for school magazines the pictures are school related e.g. a pupil, school building or school supplies. All of the contents pages I looked at above have a teenager in the picture that is likely to be a school student. I have found that the purpose of a contents page is to inform the reader about what articles are in the magazine and where they can be found within the magazine. Some contents pages split the articles into categories for example regulars and features, one of the contents pages I looked at did this, the second had a heading for cover story articles and the third had a list of all articles under the contents page title. Contents pages show the page where the articles within the magazine can be found. These numbers are normally odd as new articles commonly start on the left side of the page and then spread across to the right creating a double page spread. Most of the page numbers used in the contents pages above that I looked at for my research mainly use odd numbers. Contents page numbers should not go up in ascending order and should be random as the articles will be in random places throughout the magazine.
From this research I have fount that the conventions of contents pages are a title at the top of the page to identify what the page is showing. Contents pages have pictures on the page, for school magazines the pictures are school related e.g. a pupil, school building or school supplies. All of the contents pages I looked at above have a teenager in the picture that is likely to be a school student. I have found that the purpose of a contents page is to inform the reader about what articles are in the magazine and where they can be found within the magazine. Some contents pages split the articles into categories for example regulars and features, one of the contents pages I looked at did this, the second had a heading for cover story articles and the third had a list of all articles under the contents page title. Contents pages show the page where the articles within the magazine can be found. These numbers are normally odd as new articles commonly start on the left side of the page and then spread across to the right creating a double page spread. Most of the page numbers used in the contents pages above that I looked at for my research mainly use odd numbers. Contents page numbers should not go up in ascending order and should be random as the articles will be in random places throughout the magazine.
From this research I now know what I should include in my school magazine contents page.
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