The document discusses the contents page layout of several music magazines including Kerrang!, Clash, and NME. It analyzes design elements like color schemes, mastheads, use of images, sectioning, and how information is presented. The key points made are that contents pages aim to attract readers through prominent artist images and packed listings of articles, while maintaining clear organization through columns and boxes to make specific content easily findable.

1. The structure of this content page is different to how Kerrang!haslaid out the
contents page for the past few years. It shows that they are trying out different
ways to make them appearance of the magazine more appealing.
The contents page is quite jam packed with what is inside the contents of the
magazine. Kerrang! have made it so that you can see that the band they are
focusing on is ‘Bring Me the Horizon’ due to a picture of the band taking up
half of the top of the page. The bottom half welcomes the reader with an
editor’s note which also sums up what is in the magazine.
The bottom half is also quite packed which could also boost the reader’s
interest in the magazine as it looks jam packed with entertainment.
The masthead is clear and stands out from the page due to the black
background and yellow writing.

2. Black, red and white are reoccurring colours for this genre of magazine. In the
magazine Greys & whites are in the background which makes the pictures and
text stand out more. By having everything in boxes and columns it makes it
easier and quicker to find a page you would like to read. This also gives us the
impression that the magazine is very organsied
The red important parts of the page for example the page numbers, the title of
the magazine, sub-headings. The main focus of the magazine is the picture of
the singer Adele as she is the feature artist of the magazine.

3. Clash’ front cover matches the house style of their magazine – being plain&
structured with normally one big picture or small pictures towards the outside
of the page. By adding one of two pictures to the contents page it makes the
page have a bit of colour and stand out more. The simple layout with no
colours gives me the impression that it was aimed towards adults more around
18+.
The text is simply columned into subheadings, with the page number and title
composed in a list underneath. This allows the reader to find what they want
to with ease as they can find the subheading and then scroll down to find the
right section.

4. This contents page isn’t what you would call a stereotypical contents page due
to the fact there isn’t much to do about the content (such as a small summary)
and the pages are just simply listed. Also for the content page the picture takes
up most of the page. Not leaving much space for page information. And unless
the audience know the band that is on this content page they may not be very
interested in the magazine.
Rather than having information about what’s on each page the reader can find
an artist he/she likes and wants to read about and then go to the page – this
way it might interest them to know what the article about the band/artist will
be about. However the use of one picture can make the magazine look more
sophisticated.
The masthead is quite bright and stands out because the text is a bright blue
on a faded grey/white background. The sub-heading ‘Contents’ is much less
easy to see maybe because where it is situated in the magazine they would
expect you to work out that this is the contents page.

5. NME uses bold text at the top of the page to attract the reader toward the
page. By having the heading as ‘Inside This Week’ it tells the audience that
their magazine is weekly, so now reader would know to look for the magazine
weekly instead of monthly.
The magazine is well sectioned and numbered in an incorrect order telling us
that there must be a lot articles in the magazine.
The colour scheme for the magazine is Black, white & red like quite a few
music magazines. I think the reason they chose this is so the text and pictures
can stand out on a white background, but then they can use red to highlight
the main important bit on the page.
Like most magazine the feature artist is the biggest section of the content
page.
The also made the section about subscribing to the magazine different so it
stands out from the page more.