NME Contents Page Annotations Research

For extra research into making my contents page for my AS coursework, I decided to do research on some other music magazines that have a similiar target audience age as my music magazine. NME, has a similiar set target audience, of around 15- 30 and my target audience covers this age range of about 14-20.

• This contents page has a plain white background, however with black and red font, this works really well as we can see the text easily. It is also simple, however works effectively. 
• The page is split into seperate sections, in order so it doesn't look too cluttered. This works with the headings being larger then the actual text and also having a black background of the heading, so we know where to look.
• The page has a lot going on for example there is subscription details, whats in the magazines, band index's and so on. This makes the page look more realisic and also reliable as a music company.
• The main heading of the magazine, has the music magazines title also, in a seperate colour compared with the rest of the heading, this is like a brand identity of the magazine. Also using the red colour for the page numbers is another brand identity for this magazine, as this follows throughout all of NME's music magazines.
• It includes the date so we still know what issue we are reading.
• It has a main image in the centre of the page to draw our eyes to and one of the first things we see. This would probably show that this is the main article in the magazine and covers the majority influence of this issue of the magazine.
• In the right bottom side of the page, there is a small flash. This interests readers into fully reading the magazine.
• It shows a band index, giving us as readers a full idea of what the magazine consists of and also makes us as readers be given a friendly approach as the magazine interacts with us personally giving us extra details.