Textual analysis ---> Music Magazine Contents page

This is a contents page taken from Drummer magazine. It is a typical contents page for a music magazine because it has images of bands and solo artists

In the top left hand corner is the heading “contents”. This tells the reader what page they are on. Above the word contents is a date. I think this date is the date the magazine was published. The date suggests to me that this magazine is published monthly as it is just the month and year in the date. The word Contents is  white text on a red background. This makes the heading stand out. The date is in a darker shade of red and therefore does not standout as much as the heading.

Underneath the contents heading is the word drummer. This suggests that just like NME, Drummer has to remind the reader what they are reading this is because Drummer is in capital letters and it is printed in a large font. Drummer needs to remind the reader more then NME as the font is about twice the size. Kerrang unlike Drummer does not need to but its name on the contents page this is because it is a well established magazine.

This contents page looks more like a typical music magazine then the previous magazines. This is because it has the headings “regulars” and “features” like most contents pages do. The section with the heading “features” is larger then  the “regulars” section. Features has red and black text on a white background while  the regulars has white and dark red text on a red background.

Although there is not a lot of images unlike the Kerrang contents page, Drummer has mainly got images then text on its contents page. The photographs are dark just like the Kerrang and NME. They all have a page reference except for the photograph of a drum kit. I think that this image is the logo of the magazine because it is a drum kit and it is near the heading “Drummer”. The central image is also the biggest on the page, this is to get the readers attention. I think that this image is central and biggest because it is the cover story. Another reason why I think this is because in white italic font is the word exclusive. The word exclusive is overlapping the article heading and the image. It links the two together, showing the reader the image and text along side one another. The page reference for the photographs is in the top left hand corner, these to follow the colour theme of white and red.