The structure of this content page is different to how Kerrang! has laid 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.