Rolling Stone Contents Page

The theme on this page is trying to portray an old fashioned style from the 1960’s; this is done by the black and white photo that is dominating the page. You can clearly tell that it was taken along time ago since no photo shop is used or effects. Since the image is taking up the majority of the page this makes it an image dominant style. ‘Johnny be good’ is placed underneath in bold black font bigger than the rest of the fonts on the page, this implies that it is the main story that is featured in the magazine since it is being focussed on so much and is emphasised by taking up two thirds of the page. Underneath this is sans serif font which goes well with the theme they are putting across (1960’s), this again is bigger than the other font on the page. It is almost like the page is split into two different sections by an invisible line, as on the left hand side which is only taking up a small amount of the page compared to the black and white image. A small square profile picture of Beyonce is used at the top of the page, this contrasts with the image next to it as you can tell it has been edited by the brightness. But this also reflects the genre the magazine is trying to portray because Rolling Stone magazine includes a few different genres in its magazine, it doesn’t just focus on just one. Three colours are used on this page of; black, white and pink. Each colour has its own type of wording it uses depending what it is for example, when page numbers are wrote they are wrote in pink- this is a typical code and convention on a contents page as it is something that must be present. And black is used for the writing, however the two main pictures have their page numbers wrote in a larger black bold font, which highlight its importance on the page. The stories featuring in the magazine are all tightly positioned on the left hand side of the page with bold larger writing used to describe the main point of the page, this is used to grab the readers attention so they can quickly find what they want to read about. Then a smaller font is used to describe more about the page, so if you wanted to read about something you could find out more information on the topic.