Magazine content analysis: Contents 1: Kerrang: Cover 2: NME contents: The contents featured on this page includes topics and issues relative to the music genre and its target audience. For example, there are features of bands such as Metallica, i cons such as poster features, and live re views, just for example. These are all key topics featured in the contents page selection that will gain the interest of the readers. This could cause the audience and readers to buy the magazine. Interestingly enough, all of the main words which act as subheads such as ‘FEEDBACK’ and ‘GIGS’ are all bold, large, yellow, and surrounded by a black box. First of all, this correlates to the colour scheme, this being black, white and yellow. This makes the contents page look more professional. Also, these words are made to stand out because they are what are used to attract attention from the readers so that their interest will raise once they then analyse the contents features in more depth and care. Contents feature names ofbands and famous musicians within the type ofgenre promoted by Kerrang. The contents features are a good way to raise success rates The positions of some things featured on this page are interesting to consider. For instance, take the main contents head title. This is featured on the right top rather than the left. Firstly, it’s at the top as this is a part of the page that is seen first, as people usually look from the top. Further juxtaposition also includes the position of the actual contents, on the right of the page, middle and bottom. This is good as it is at the edge, not in the middle surrounded by other content such as images to make it less noticeable. However, this part of the page is usually not looked at on first glance. Normally, this would make the contents unnoticeable, but since this is the contents page, the reader will naturally notice it anyway. Another position issue is the main page image, surrounded by smaller images. The main image is in a very good position as it is right beneath the top content. The only thing above it is a small image with small writing, so that won’t take away the interest. The image is large and in a noticeable position. The images surrounding it will also be looked at more as they are placed near the large main image; all the reader has to do is look around the main image to see them. Since these images contain highlights of the contents, this is useful to the aims of the magazine to gain an audience of readers though interest. Finally, the feature at the top of the page, the small text and picture. This would normally be noticed but due to a lack of size, other content such as title and main image steal interest. This is only placed there so the more interested readers interested in that particular band will view it. This way, further content is already provided for those most interested in the audience.
