Contents Page Analysis

The front of the magazine should stand out more, maybe use some colours just like on the contents page. The contents page is quite boring, the audience are rock fans, emos, Goths…etc. The audience would want something more exiting and sharp… the structure of the contents page is set out neatly in order, just from the pictures you can straight away tell that it’s a rock magazine.
The style of the magazine is quite simple with hardly any bright colours, which is more aimed at the target audience but maybe sometimes they could use a bit of colours. The pictures on the page are quite big, this draws the audience attention more that writing. They use not a lot of writing, which is good cause customers don’t like a lot of writing they prefer pictures more. To stand some of the text they have written it in bold in yellow on a black background, which attracts the eye as well because there aren’t so many colours on the page and that has colours which makes it stands out more.
Some of the text on the contents actually matches up with some of the text on the front cover, like ‘ENTER SHIKARI’ and all the ‘PLUS!’ bits as well. All of them are written in capital letters which is quite common on the contents page.
The information is organised very simple for the audience, this shows that the audience their aiming for does not want to sit there and read a magazine full of writing. They prefer more pictures, posters, interviews… they like most their information to be on bands and things like who’s performing live. The main things they like is on the ‘This Week’ column, where the information is put down very simply and the pages are right next to them.
There are quite a lot of promotional features such as:
- ‘Fall out Boy to play exclusive K! Show!’
- Free posters
- ‘PLUS!’ extra bit at the bottom
- Live reviews
- Album reviews
- Gigs…
However the magazine doesn’t have any graphic features to draw the reader’s attention, maybe they should use that seasonally to get a bit more profit.
The magazine logo is at the top of the page, behind one of the band members of the main image. The font of the logo is unique so when you see it you straight away know which magazine it is, however I think it would stand out more if the colour would be brighter because now the band member gets most of my attention than the logo.
On the contents page there is a franchiser in a red box at the bottom on the right side promoting their delivery service, this would attract more of the magazines fans to get their magazine delivered to their home.
The contents page relates a lot to the front cover, because they try and keep most of the text the same and also the colours. They have about 5 main colours they use on both of the pages, this is quite good because if they used different ones it would be unique but not relevant.