Research - Music Magazine Contents

Here is an example of a popular music magazines contents page from 'NME'

I found the idea of this contents page interesting because of the use of images. This contents page cleverly uses the images as page numbers instead of just listing the pages. Plus as they are different shapes and sizes scattered around the page, this is more visually appealing to its audience as they do not have to read or look up for the page they want they can simply look at the pictures. The images dominate the page which gives a clear message to the genre of the music magazine by the; drum kits, indie bands and solo artists. However there is still a contents list which runs down the left side of the magazine the font is not that big so it doesn't over power the images but there is a little colour of red added to help the contents list appear more on the page. The colour scheme is black, grey, white and red. These colours are used in most 'NME' magazines and are again used to reflect the genre of 'rock', 'indie' style music. The brightness of the red, contrasted with the black and grey helps it stand out from the page which encourages the reader to take notice of the contents. Also the title/header is very unusually set out the title of the page is 'Contents' however it is allot smaller than the title 'DRUMMER' , which makes the word drummer stand out more, this may be because the title is the main theme of this issue. The magazine again uses this technique to entice its audience into reading further.