Kerrang Contents Page Analysis

On this Kerrang contents page there are three sections. The first section is based on one image the second section is on the editor and the third section is the contents section of where they put page numbers and titles. There are two images on the contents page, one is a picture of a band and the second image is a picture of the editor of Kerrang magazine. The first image is big because it’s to attract the audience about winning a ticket for the “Revival Tour” and a Lee denim jacket. This picture contains a graphic feature and a buzz word with little information at the bottom and the    question for the audience to answer to be able to win the ticket and jacket

The second image on the contents page is a picture of the magazine editor along with a group; with this image it had a letter from the magazine editor himself explaining about the picture behind what actually happened. He also talks about Green Day which is on the main front cover; he talks about the opening night of Green Day’s musical. He tells the audience the page of what he’s talking about so that they can read about the musical article of Green Day and maybe they would be persuade by reading this to go and buy tickets for the musical themselves to go and watch it. At the end of the letter he talks about the Kerrang Tour to close up the letter. This letter is for the Kerrang fans, they are the ones who would read this part the normal Kerrang audience would just be interested about the articles so they would just look at the contents and maybe the contest image.

The colours used in this contents page are red, white, black and yellow. These colours are also used on the front cover. These colours make the magazine look simple and clear, they do not want to make it unreadable or else the reader won't be able to read it. Kerrang magazine use different colours for different issue but they have a consistent colour scheme which is white, black and yellow. Kerrang having a colour scheme will make people recognise that this is a Kerrang magazine because they use same colour for each issue. The colour represents the genre because it’s dark, bold and dominating. Also the rock music is bold so it connects to the colour.

The contents are split into each category; feedback; news; live reviews; posters and more). The reason of this is because it makes easier for the reader to find what pages they want to read and also putting them under each category they would not need to skim through the whole contents they would just need to find the page category. This would be good for people who buy it that wants to read certain article or reviews, this will help them save time.

Kerrang does have a logo their logo is the title. In this content page they use their title on a red banner, like in every Kerrang magazine content page they use the same red banner with their title on top or they sometime use different colour but still have the title on time.                                                          

The images represent the genre because it’s in black and white which shows there’s a mystery and dark, this connects with the rock music because rock music is dark and heavy. The bottom pictures with the editor and a band group shows they’re unconventional which relates to rock because rock music is very different; it’s unusual from mainstream music.