Analysis of Magazine Contents Pages - Analysis of 'Kerrang's' contents.

• The main colour scheme/house style is yellow, white and black. Which has connotations of grime or rock. The yellow stands out against black, so it is eye-catching and grabs the reader’s attention.
•  The main image is of ‘The All American Rejects’ all looking at the camera, however they all appear to be looking at the camera from different angles, which has a sense of confusion. This would appeal to the target audience, as it is different, which is how some of the readers would describe themselves. This image is not a lot larger than the other images, however the smaller images are positioned around it, so it draws the readers attention to it.
• The font is all san-serif. This suggests that ‘Kerrang’ is an informal, relaxed magazine.
• The masthead is positioned at the top-right of the page, so that it is one of the first things the readers sees. It is not much bigger in size than the headlines, but this shows that the magazine is confident that readers will know it’s a contents page without needed to have a big masthead telling them that it is. Also, because the masthead is written in a bold, yellow font, on a black background it stands out.
• The layout of this contents page is images on the left side, and text on the right. The main image is ‘boxed in’ by the rest of the smaller images, which means the reader’s attention is drawn to main image. The text is positioned down the right-hand side so that it is easy to read and is not in the way of any of the images.