8/13/2019 Contents Page 3 Annotation

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Contents Page Annotation 3

This is a contents page taken from the VIBE

magazine.

This vibe magazine has Beyonc laying on her

back with her legs up in the air making a V

shape, the V outline relates to the mast head

of the magazine front cover (VIBE) this is

effective as it is using the image to achieve the

advertisement of a magazine brand.

Beyoncs legs and bum are revealed in the main

image on the contents. The females legs and

bum can be used for mens attention; this image

has a sexual reference which relates to the Laura

Mulveys theory: the male gaze. Her legs are also

in the centre point of the page along with the

heading of the page: contents, this is eye

catching for the male audience.

The text on the contents page is very

easy to read, the subheadings are bold

and enlarged compared to the other text,

and this would be to highlight the

different topics of information within the

magazine.

The contents header is very unusual for

magazine to have, one this magazine

contents page, the text is spread out to 3

different levels, this makes it interesting to

the indie followers/audience as they like

unique and different things.

The colour palette of the page is mono-tonal

and simple. The content uses grey, black and

white these colours allow the image of

Beyonc to stand out to the male audience.

The white colour used for the text contents

allows it to stand out boldly on top of thegrey/black background.

VIBE commonly uses black/African/Caribbeanmusic artists/groups as the image on the front

cover, contents and main article of their

magazines as it links stereotypically to the

RnB/Hip-Hop magazine genre. As used on this

contents page Beyonc who is a black African,

American artist which represents their interest

for artists of this colour tone and genre.