23/11/2010

 This is a contents page from an issue of Kerrang. It keeps to the colour sceme on the front cover of white, black and yellow and is carried out through every issue of Kerrang, unless a special editon one, where they feature gold. There are 6 images on this contents page and most of the picture consist of men around the ages of 25-35. All the bands featured are the same sort of style, which appeals to Kerrang magazines target audience. The contents shows that the magazine talks about bands dating back to the 80's, such as Iron Maiden. All the bands consisting of the same style and music genre, and mostly men. The fonts are kept simple, there are 3-4 different styles of writing on the contents page, and also usually on Kerrang front cover.

This is NME's contents page, again keeping the same throughout every issue. The colour scheme is red, white and black and again the font styles are kept simple, appealing to a more mature target audience. There are two images on this contents page but both from the same gig, there is even a small article to pull the reader in to read more. The bands featured range between male and female and old and new. For example Guns and Roses are from the late 70's early 80's and bands like Florence and the Machine and Friendly Fires whom are newer bands from 2009 and 2010, these bands are bands people of my generation would be currently listening to. Although the lead singer of Florence and the Machine is female, most of the bands featured are males, around the age range of 20-35. NME's target audience are males.