Drummer Magazine Content Page Analysis

Images

• The images that cover most of the contents page don’t provide much information on what the corresponding article is about this suggest the magazines target audience would be a more hard core music fan, the magazine expect the reader to know who the musicians are.

• However under the features section the articles related to the images are given a brief introduction.

Text

• Again the magazine expects the audience to know who the artist are in the majority of articles in the featured section. Shown on the right is an example of how the magazine reaches out to its audience. In the description names are used rather than using pronouns, artists names are used ‘Dave Lombardo’ ‘Billy Cobham’ this names would only appeal to a particular audience.

Fonts

• The font used for the drummer text stands out because it looks like the headline from a newspaper it also works in the same way in that it grabs your attention and makes you want to read the rest of the page.

• The smaller fonts are all rounded this is so the text is easy to read although these fonts are similar you can differentiate between them because of the different thicknesses. This also helps to create sections the thicker fonts are used for titles and subtitles whereas the smaller text is used for more descriptive purposes.

Layout

• The contents page looks busy but with images rather than text. The text follows typical conventions by being in the left third which makes the page have a more organised layout. All the images are in line with columns however the images still give the page a scrapbook look, this is because of the rounded corners and the canted image of the drums. This makes the rest of the images on the page look slightly canted.

Colours

• The colour scheme works well as the red, white and black all contrast each other so there is no areas of the page that aren’t clearly visible because of the choice of colour. I think this colour scheme would work well in my magazine and I will look to use it in the final draft of my magazine. The red and the black also add to the identity of the magazine. The colours red and black bring forward the connotation of rock and the clothes associated with that music genre. Drums are also associated with this music genre so it makes sense to use these colours as it will attract the people who associate themselves with that genre.