Analysis a female lifestyle magazine contents page:Prima

The Masthead:

The Masthead for this contnets page has the same colour scheme as the front cover and throughout the magazine. This is because it is a female orrentated magazine and so bright colours with draw the reader in. The masthead is located at the top left hand corner and is the biggest font on the page to make clear the the audience that this is the contents page, but the title does not have the word contents but instead "October Prima 2009" this is because Prima is a mouthly magazine and has the mouth of the magazine inside as well as out to insure the reader that this issue is the October one.

Images:

All the images on the contents page are on one side and so suggest that the reader is simple and does not need to be cluttered with images or phrases. The images shown are what women are intrested in from clothes to baking these pictures would draw the target reader in. the colour of the text relecfts the colour of the images and make the page more inviting.

Regular Section:

The sections are split up to tipical women lifestyle activites for example the first one is Fashion which is tips on clothes. Then beauty which is about makeup and so on till the reader gets to the end where it is Every Mouth which is pages, articals or reviews that appar in most issues.

Easy Infomation:

There are different size images and on the image are numbers that take the reader to that particular page in the magazine. As it is a womens magazine there has to be a personal touch to the magazine and on the contest page there is a check list for the reader to tick of as they go on their jorney flicking through the magazine. As this is a magazine mostly amied at mothers there are vouchers off tipical highstreet stores to intise the reader in and make them buy the magzine.

Colour:

The colour scheme used is inviting and friendly use colours like (green, purple) this is because the magazine is amied at females and so the magzine is more personal and cozy for the reader.