As you know I have analysed 5 front covers of music magazines, and I am going to be doing the same for contents pages. Over the next few days I am going to analyse 5 contents pages; 3 Kerrangs, 1 Classic Rock and one Rock Sound. These are the same magazines I analysed for the front cover.
Kerrang has chosen to create a blocky style contents page. Although there are several large images, the text dominates the page, and all the text has subheadings in a black box. This is affective as it keeps the articles separate but also makes the page look neat as it is in organised sections. The use of a brief sentence explaining the article for each artist underneath their heading gives the audience a sneak peek at what the article is going to entail. The title of the Kerrang contents pages isn't just “contents” in a bold font; it's in a circle and has a subheading in a red box underneath. This challenges the conventions of other music magazines and is more individual which is exactly what this genre of music does. So by playing the strengths of the genre the magazine really appeals to its target audience. This is the typical style of the Kerrang contents pages so keeping it consistent makes it recognisable.
The conventions from the Kerrang contents page I would consider using would be the ‘blocky look’ it’s neat and clear but also nothing is seen as more important than another. I would also incoperate the use of the three distinct images, as that shows the reader the variety of articles in the magazine. I also really like the title being in a circle. Also I like the large bold page numbers, they stand out against the images, even without reading the blurb someone might see an image of an artist they like and see the large number and immediately turn to that page and read about it.The conventions I wouldn't consider using would be the editors column and advert plug and I think they are only there to fill the page, so instead I would use bigger pictures and more text.
Kerrang has chosen to create a blocky style contents page. Although there are several large images, the text dominates the page, and all the text has subheadings in a black box. This is affective as it keeps the articles separate but also makes the page look neat as it is in organised sections. The use of a brief sentence explaining the article for each artist underneath their heading gives the audience a sneak peek at what the article is going to entail. The title of the Kerrang contents pages isn't just “contents” in a bold font; it's in a circle and has a subheading in a red box underneath. This challenges the conventions of other music magazines and is more individual which is exactly what this genre of music does. So by playing the strengths of the genre the magazine really appeals to its target audience. This is the typical style of the Kerrang contents pages so keeping it consistent makes it recognisable.
The conventions from the Kerrang contents page I would consider using would be the ‘blocky look’ it’s neat and clear but also nothing is seen as more important than another. I would also incoperate the use of the three distinct images, as that shows the reader the variety of articles in the magazine. I also really like the title being in a circle. Also I like the large bold page numbers, they stand out against the images, even without reading the blurb someone might see an image of an artist they like and see the large number and immediately turn to that page and read about it.The conventions I wouldn't consider using would be the editors column and advert plug and I think they are only there to fill the page, so instead I would use bigger pictures and more text.
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