The document analyzes the contents pages of several music magazines, including NME, Kerrang, and Uncut. It summarizes the target audiences and styles of each magazine. NME targets both older listeners of 80s artists and younger people who still enjoy that music. Kerrang features busy layouts to represent punk/rock music and targets men aged 18-25. Uncut targets older listeners at age 37 on average, with 86% male readers interested in rock and classic indie music.

1. Analysis of Magazine Contents
Pages
By
Liam Donnelly

2. There is a very basic colour
pallet of grey, gold and black,
however this allows for the
main focus to be on the person Issue number,
shown, who stands out so new
because of the colour red that customers know
he is wearing. that the
The primary audience magazine has
would be older people been running
because the artists for a while.
featured in the magazine
are from the 80s. The
secondary audience Information about
could be younger people the article is shown
who still like to listen to so that the reader
this music. can see if there
interested before
Page numbers
they decide whether
so readers know
to read on.
where to look
for the article
that they want
to read, also
leaves them in Image of the
no doubt that person in the
this is the main article,
contents page. the size shows
his importance
Quote from feature to this issue of
article, so the the magazine.
customer wants to
read on.

3. The contents page follows
on with the traditional
house style of a NME Less important
magazine, with the colour articles within the
pallet of red, white and magazine are
black. placed down the
right hand side of
Down the left hand the page
side of the page
there is a band
index, which means
that the reader can
Information
find the band that
available regarding
they are interested
the article, so the
in and go directly to
reader can get a
that page.
taste for the article
Main article is the before deciding
feature of the whether to read it
contents page, so or not.
in this particular
issue the main
focus is on Oasis. Incentive for the
reader to
subscribe to this
The primary target magazine
audience would be those because they will
who like rock/ indie music. receive a
65% of the readers are men, discount.
50% are 16-24 and 23% are
25-34

4. The Kerrang contents The target audience for
page is very busy, which this magazine would be
represents the type of people between the
music that the magazine ages of 18-25 and they
portrays, it follows the would mostly be men,
same house style as the this is because of the
front cover with the music that is featured in
colour pallet of yellow, the magazine as punk/
black and white. rock/ indie are not as
likely to attract an older
market to the magazine.
Issue number of the
magazine so that the
reader knows how long
the magazine has been Picture relates
running for. to the main
article in the
magazine
Trying to get
A short introduction from the reader to
the deputy editor, this commit to
allows the reader to have a buying more
connection with the magazines.
magazine straight away.

5. The contents page for
uncut is very basic, it The average age of the
follows the traditional target audience is 37 and
house style of the 86% of these readers are
magazine with a colour male, the magazine genre
pallet of red, black and is rock and classic indie.
white.
Main image tells
the reader who
the feature
article is about, it
is also in black
and white to
The articles are show that it is a
placed down the side classic which fits
of the page, with in with the
information below magazine genre
them so the reader of classic indie.
can decide if they
want to read on or
not.
Short insight into what
the feature article is
about and what the
reader can expect.