Contents Page Analysis (NME magazine)

The magazine uses images and the images used in the contents coincide with the articles that are mentioned. For example, there is a picture of the artist Angel Haze, which tells the reader the article is going to be about her which is clarified with the very brief summary of her article headline underneath her picture.

The images used coincide with the articles involved so it doesn't really say much about its style however due to there being more male images than female and the audience for this magazine is males and so it supports my initial findings.

The colour of the text is black but the number pages have been coloured red. This use of colour technique makes it easier for the reader to find what it is they are looking for. It supports style of the front cover as the colours used in the contents page are used on the front page.
Different types of font have been used. There is a use of bold and standard font text used which helps differs each article from the other.
The contents page differs from the front cover in the sense that the front cover is big and bold and colourful as it should be as it has to attract readers but the contents page is a bit standard which helps the reader find the article they want to read without getting distracted with anything in the page or finding it difficult to find.

The page has been organised in 3 columns. The articles haven’t written in chronological order but are jumbled around. However, the size, colour and boldness of the article pages allow the reader to find the page they want as it is viewable. The main articles have images so the reader can know without reading who the article is about.

¾ of the page is taken up by the big article features and the other ¼ includes a promotional feature and a smaller contents page which includes extra things for the reader to do such as crosswords, reviews and gig guides.  The sections that comes first on the contents page are those that are of most relevance to the magazine. The artists mentioned in the contents page also reinforce the genre of the magazine.
In the bottom right hand corner of the page, there is a red box that tells readers that they can ‘subscribe to NME today and save up to 38%’.