The document summarizes and compares the content layout styles of three music magazines: NME, Kerrang, and Mixmag. NME relies heavily on text with one large picture and uses bolding and color to draw attention to subscription and event information. Kerrang focuses more on pictures than text, using images to illustrate articles and bold yellow headings. Mixmag spreads its content across two pages to accommodate large colorful pictures describing the articles against a black background with white stencil text.

1. NME Contents Evaluation  Kerrang Contents Evaluation Mixmag Contents Evaluation

2. NME’s contents layout is simple black, white, and some red text make it seem serious and bland. It is very heavy on the text with only on picture. Though this picture is large it is still drowned in text. There is subscription information at the bottom and the gig guide is white on red to make it stand out the subscription information is also emboldened in hopes you will see it and subscribe.

3. Kerrang is very heavy on pictures and not very dependant on the text. There is a list of information on the articles illustrated by pictures and there is a larger picture talking about an interview. This suggests that this is the main article. The text is bold and encased in yellow if it is a heading. There is a quote from a celebrity featured in the magazine. All of the text is on the right side of the page because we read left to right and we are drawn into the pictures first.

4. The contents page of Mixmag is on a double page spread because most of the contents page is taken up by pictures detailing the articles. The text for headlines and numbers is stencil style and white as the background is black. The images are very bright and colourful which suggests a sense of frivolity with in the seriousness (the black).