NME Magazine - Contents Page Analysis

The contents page for this issue of NME is very professional looking, for every issue of NME, ‘inside this week’ is written using the Times new roman font and made it a large font size so that it stands out. This gives the magazine a newspaper like feel, adding to the professional look of the magazine. The current date of when the issue was sold is written in a smaller font size under the title of the contents page, this is helpful for the reader as they can then know what date it is. The page numbers for each article are written in bold, red writing to stand out from the black and white background and writing, they also make it so that the corner which the number is written on covers that area of the picture so that the corner of the picture has disappeared. Quotations from each article have been included underneath photos included in the article to advertise each article included in the magazine. An advert to subscribe to NME with a discount has been included at the bottom right hand side of the page written over a red background to stand out, to help advertise the magazine they have placed pictures of other issues of the magazine to show what else they write about, this then helps the magazine to branch out to a wider audience. The layout of the contents page is rather formal with some contents flush left and some flush right. The most important article is shown at the centre of the page using a larger picture and quotation from the article. The less important articles are highlighted at the bottom of the page as a strip and in writing above the smaller articles says ‘plus’ in black font. The information in the contents page is over a plain white background with minimum negative space. Pictures of each article are provided above each page number to show who you are reading about.  Thin black lines have been placed to divide each article written about in the contents page so that the reader can identify when another article is being written about. The layout of the contents page is relatively neat with three pictures flush left, with quotes from the article written underneath in a clack font. The picture top left of the page has bold black writing for the quote and so does the bottom picture flush left of the page, yet the quotation for the picture in the middle flush left has been written in a skinny black font yet still the same font size.