Contents and Double Page analysisOf Kerrang and Top of the Pops magazine

The main colours to this contents page are Yellow, Black and White. This gives that rebellious, hazard feeling to the magazine. The contents page has the typical conventions. There is;

• The title 'contents'• Authors Notes• The title of the Magazine somewhere to be found on the

contents page• Main feature (This time it is 'Bring me the Horizon')• Features with Page numbers in numerical order• Various pictures• different fonts and colours• Issue Number

The picture at the top of the page takes up most of the page (half). The image is not posed and is sort of free. I like this because I think it would connect with the reader better and in a way you could pick up more from it. Since Kerrang attracts a young audience and the people in the image are young then it makes the image believable and appealing. What I notice about the contents page is that it has various headlines in black and yellow. 'Feedback', 'news', 'swag', 'live reviews', 'features', although it is at an early stage.

Contents page - Kerrang

This is a double page spread from the same magazine, it's colour scheme is again kept to about three colours, including both white and black. There is still a theme of destruction, and it includes photography of the band relevant to the article. I've noted that the photo is very large, and takes up a whole a4 page. This could be because fans of rock music likely to have posters in their rooms, so this could be ripped out neatly. This particular double page spread is an article on a specific band, my page will either be a review or an interview with the artist featured on my cover

Double Page - Kerrang

Contents – Top of the Pops

The top of the pops magazine contents page has a very different set out than Kerrang. The font used as the masterhead is more funky and girlish. It tells the reader there is going to be a lot of information given in the magazine. Alongside this there are plenty of other text boxes which show snippets of information on what you will find in the magazine with large page numbers printed in front of them.

For each text box there is different categories of text such as 'Wins & offers' and 'Celebs & gossip' showing that there is plenty of information in the magazine.As well as this the subheadings are placed in text boxes at the top of 'their' content, and printed in a curly font; this is suitable as the target market is for young girls - they tend to like this style of font as it represents 'girliness'

Mid shots have also been used to show the artists which feature in the magazine - these have a large page number printed on the picture to inform the readers what page they can be found on.

Double Page-Top of the Pops There is a lot of small writing on the double page spread of the magazine, the language used is fairly simple which would appeal to the magazines audiences of 11-15 year olds. The questions that have been asked give an insight into the stars life, she explains the advantages and disadvantages of having her every move watched by the world, this would interest the readers because they would get a first hand account of living life as a celebrity, which interests many 11-15 year olds. The interviewer uses a friendly tone towards the star this makes the auidences feel they can they can trust what the star is saying.The double page spread is carefully designed to keep the audiences attention, the font is small so the reader will feel like they are reading a lot however the design of the page breaks up the text. The lines that surround the text ensures the readers attention will be drawn to the central secondary image on the left hand side of the double page spread which automatically makes the reader want to read all of the text on the left hand side.