five music magazine content pages that I have analysised

1) Mix Mag

It has two columns. The left column is bigger than the right column. There is also a band under the two columns, which holds more columns of content. In the left column is the main photo, which also has the page number and the article title in the bottom left corner of the shot.

There are two other smaller images on the page, also with the page number and the article title.

At the bottom of the page on the right hand side is the page number. The title is at the top of the page on the right hand side, but the date of the issue is in the middle top and the name of the magazine is on the left hand side at the top of the page.

They mainly use black, white and yellow on the page. Which follows the same colour scheme that they used on the front cover of the magazine. The colours in the main image on the cover and the main picture of this contents page are more or less the same to.

There are one sub-category, which is ‘features’ and under this is the articles that are relevant. There are some other articles that are named and that show their page number in the banner of black at the bottom of the page.


2) Rolling Stone

 It has two columns; the left one is thinner than the left one. On the right hand side column there is the main image of the page, under this image is the title of the article that it is relevant to and the page number of where the article is in the magazine. There is also the start of the article to give you a taster of what is in it, so that you can decide if you like it.

On this page there is not the title or the name of the magazine. There isn’t even the date that the magazine was issued.

It uses the black and white of the front cover but it doesn’t use the orange. Instead of the used a pinkie/purple colour, this go against what other magazines like to do but it dose stop the reader from getting board of the same colour scheme all the time.

It has no sub-category.


3) Q

The Q’s logo is right at the top of the page with the title of the page beside it. The title is in white and there is on a black banner. On the other side of the banner is the date that the magazine was published.

They have used 2 columns; the left column is thinner than right side.

The main image is on the right hand and takes up most of the page. It relates to the article on page 38. I know this as it is written in red and has the title of the article is written in black.

There is one other image on the page at the bottom middle. This also has the page number and the title of the article that it is relevant to.

The colour scheme for this page is the same as the cover (red, white and black), which is the same for the rest of the magazine. There are three sub-categories; one is ‘features’. The second is ‘every month’ and the last is ‘review’. Under these sub-categories are the names and the page numbers of the articles that fit that description. 


4) NME

There is three columns to this page. The one on the left is the thinnest of the three and the one on the right is the second smallest. This leaves the middle column to be the biggest one. The left hand column and the middle column are cut short at the bottom of the page by a black box, which talks about subscribing and give you the contact details.

The main image is in the middle column, and it has the page number and the title of the article that it is relevant to at the bottom of shot. But the other images on the page are two past magazines in the subscribe box.

At the top of the page there is another black box that shortens the middle column and the right hand side one. In this black box is the name of the magazine on the left and the title of this page on the right. Unlike other magazines, this one hasn’t called this page the ‘contents’ page, they have called it ‘this week’ which makes them stand out from the others a bit. Just under the top black box is another that only shortens the right hand side column, in this box is the date that the magazine was issued.

They have used the same colour scheme on this page as what they did on the front cover. And they have also kept the newspaper type style.

They have five different sub-categories, called ‘news’, ‘radar’, ‘reviews’, ‘live!’, and ‘features’. These all have different page numbers and titles of the articles the fit this description under the relevant one.


5) Kerrang 

When they write, they use language that is chatty and informal as this appeals to their target audience and help them to get more.

This page is covered with mostly images. This give the reader an inside to what is in the magazine before they even read the text. The main image is the biggest one on the left hand side in the middle. This image is relevant to the article on page 28.

Each of the images has a page number (mostly under the image), this works well if the reader wants to read that article before any other and it also shows the relevance of each of the photos. Showing that they are not just randomly place there, to make the page more interesting. There is some text next to each of the images’ numbers; this is to show what article the image is relevant to. This helps a lot if there is more than one article on the page.

The same colour scheme is used throughout the magazine and it is always the same colour scheme, yellow, white and black. This makes it easily recognizable for the readers.

The title of the page stands out because of the contrast of the two colours that they have chosen to use.

The text of the contents page is always in black and yellow. This follows their style. Another thing that follows their style is having the 2 columns, but they still divided the 2 columns using some of the images.