This is a contents page from Kerrang! magazine. It maintains the theme of 'rock' music through it's graphology, presented as looking destroyed and distorted. It's colour scheme sticks to black, white and yellow and fonts are san serif font. There are multiple photos of band members and also performances. Page numbers are frequent on this page, and there is repeated symbols to signal cover lines that have featured on the front cover.
Photographs are also featured from various sections of the magazine, and some examples of the double page spreads are shown, this then gives the page multiple visual pointers that contributes to the observers decisions on what to read first.
Despite being sectioned according to their content, all the features listed are in alphabetical order. There is a consistency on how the news is presented on the page, conventionally under a heading such as 'News' 'Gigs' or 'Features', and then band names' are listed. Therefore the viewer can see that a band will be talked about, and roughly what the story will be about (what category it fits into) but not too much of the story, they will have to read further into this to find out. This is a classic convention of a contents page as information is left unknown, in order for the reader to want to find out more. Some cover lines are elaborated on however, such as "You Me At Six' Josh and Co celebrate their chart success!," but the band name is still in bold and information is still kept to a minimum. Furthermore, there is an exclamatory added to the tagged information, to make it seem exciting.
Double Page Spread
This is a double page spread from the same magazine, it's colour scheme is again kept to about three colours including both white and black, and here added purple. Again san serif font has been used. It includes photography of the band relevant to the article, specific to this example is just one band member, who is the front man. Conventionally, it is the person that performs vocals in a band (labelled as front man/woman) that gets featured in a story if the media text focuses around an individual in a band and not the whole group. This is because this is the member the audience will connect with most, as they produce the major sections to the music, and they also conventionally stand at the front of the stage during performances. I've noted that the photo is very large, and takes up a whole a4 page. This could be because the target audience of this media text may want to use this image as a poster, so this could be ripped out neatly.
This particular double page spread is an interview with the artist featured, the title is presented purely through a quotation of the interview, and then the stand first confirms that this is an interview, who it is with and what band the artist is from. The important sections of the stand first are also put in a different colour, to make them stand out. This technique means that the message is communicated quicker also as the important words in the paragraph are enforced. The interview starts with a drop letter and all the questions are shown with a different colour box shape behind them, to highlight them. This way the reader could pick and choose the order they read the content of the interview if they wished.
This double page spread example has a slightly different colour scheme in relation to the other examples of kerrang I have examined, as the colour purple is used. Despite consistency in a magazine being a crucial element, this isn't a negative element to the feature as it gives the story exclusiveness and is refreshing for the observer to view.
Here are some more examples from kerrang, three covers, three contents pages and three double page spreads. This to illustrate again how the double page spreads can consist of different colour schemes, and this can still be effective. The colour schemes shown here are purples again, but of different tones. I realised that a pinky purple tone is used in two of the three examples when a female model is featured, this may be to follow classic feminine stereotypes. This is something to keep in mind, if I used a female in my photography.
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