The target audience of this magazine contents page is fans of rock and punk music. The house style uses black and yellow colors, with contents in yellow on black to stand out. The main image is of Craig Owens, a member of the post-hardcore band Chiodos. Smaller images of other rock bands are included. Text uses yellow writing on black backgrounds to highlight important information. The page promotes an exciting variety of rock bands and artists through images and quotes associated with fast-paced, intense rock music.

1. Contents Analysis
The target audience of this magazine is a
mainstream audience; it’s aimed at different
ages and different genders, considering it plays
all different types of music. The house style of
this magazine is that everything is red and black
on a white background with a main image and
miniature images with writing on there to. The
layout is that the features are always at the side
in black writing with a red line underneath them.
The masthead of this page is that the Q is always
in the left corner with the contents text a little
smaller next to it. With Q’s contents page your
eyes always go to the main image first and then
to the information which is always in small writing. The cover star in this
contents page is Jay-Z which is a Hip Pop/R&B artist, and also has other smaller
images of different artists and bands, showing the variety of music this
magazine shows. The Cover line underneath the band image where it says
‘Music’s most exciting people’, suggests to the audience that the artists named
underneath are music’s best artist’s and will excite people with their music,
making the audience want to learn more about these artists.

2. The target audience of this magazine is
also a mainstream audience it’s aimed at
different ages and genders of people.
Mainly people that enjoy Rock bands and
Punk artists. The house style of this
magazine is mainly the colours. The
colours are always black and yellow. Black
represents danger, darkness, and isolation
and the yellow shows warning. Also the
Contents itself is always yellow on a black
background standing out to the audience
what page this is and then the other text
on the page is also in yellow writing on
black backgrounds standing out to the
audience that these parts of the page are important. The audience’s eyes most
likely go to the main image which is of Craig Owens who is a past member of
the band Chiodos who are a post-hardcore band and so will be known by the
people that enjoy that kind of music. But then the eyes will go straight to the
highlighted words because they stand out which are small headings down the
page for people to know what to expect inside. Showing the audience this
magazine is going to be busy and have lots of information and photos of
different rock bands and artists which are associated with the music which is
fast, busy and wild. The people in these images are all wearing the same kind
of clothes, black, yellow, white and dark colours associating with the genre of
music, showing the audience that this magazine is definitely going to have a lot
of information about rock bands. The cover lines in this contents page are the
bands names under their pictures showing the audience who they are and
having a small quote with it too, this has been done to give the audience more
information about the people in the image showing what band they are and
what they’re kind of like.
Comparisons and contrasting of
Contents Page covers
Both these Contents pages have some similarities including using the people
inside to gain its audience and using certain colours for certain social groups
and people, and also shows a variety of images and text about what’s going to
be inside the magazine. In comparison it also mainly has the same background

3. as white, having the images and cover lines stand out to people. In contrast
Kerrang has a lot more information inside maybe being associated with the
fact that it has more people on the page too and so needs more information
for the audience. Also in contrast the images on Kerrang’s Contents page are
all set out straight and neat, whereas Q’s contents page the images are mainly
curved and over lapped, I think this has been done to show the audience how
much Q magazine is filled with and that’s its full because of all the different
genres of music it does, whereas because Kerrang only does mainly one or
similar genres of music there’s only one kind of stuff to add to it and so doesn’t
need to be cramped and can be set out neat and straight. Furthermore in
contrast both magazine contents pages show how different they are targeting
at certain audiences, by the colours and styles of quotes etc.