Kerrang! Contents Page Analysis

This contents page follows many of the conventions of a contents page. It has in the top right hand corner themasthead 'contents' this masthead is in a yellow font with black surrounding it in a rectangle. This is chosen as it is the main theme colours and style of Kerrang! magazine. As on the cover of Kerrang! it has text and subtitles on it that are in a yellow font and that have black around them. This theme runs right the way through the magazine and also throughout the contents page aswell. For example on this contents page the numbers are yellow.

Running down the right hand side of this contents page are all the pages numbered and with small titles of the pages next to them, this tells the audience what is on each page. These are split up into sections aswell, such as 'features' and 'album reviews'. This helps the reader navigate the magazine easier and it also gives the reader more knowledge about what each page of the magazine is about. These headings are also in a yellow font with black around them, again carrying on the colour theme.

To the left of this, and taking up most of the page, are the pictures. The pictures are square shaped and sit next to eachother, like rows and columns. The pictures are all the same size apart from one that is the top left to the others. This is bigger than the rest of them indicating that it is about a big story or an important one that the magazine want to communicate to the reader striaght away, and because of this it is the picture that catches the attention of the reader as soon as they turn to the contents page. All of thses pictures have captions that have a small bold title and then a sentence, in normal type, next to it. This allows the reader to have a better insight to what the picture is indicating and what the article will be about.

Most of the pictures are of people performing or in some movement, in the biggest picture it is a man who is swearing and in others of people shouting. This clearly shows what type of magazine it is, and the mise en scene seems to be very rebellious and has an 'in your face' type feel to it.