Contents Page Analysis - DRUMMER

This magazine contents page looks well structured and easy to look at. In some ways because of the use of the simple colours and fonts it is somewhat sophisticated and they don't bother faffing around with needless bright colours and colourful pictures. In some ways this is subversive because most 'rock' style music magazines tend to target younger audience with flashy images and lots of colour. The sophistication of the front cover could still target a young audiencebut it starts to target a more older audience. Therefore this magazine is trying to broaden audience through it's colour scheme and layout.

The image of the drum set next to the title is put purposely. Drums are big and make loud noise, the typography of the masthead reflects this because the masthead is also big and chunky; this magazine would see to target a more masculine because of this. I would even go so far as to say the two 'M's look like the two bass drums in the picture.

The main image illustrates a professional drummer at his set which suggests that proffesional artists are going to be interviewed in the magazine. This is effective because it attracts newly starting out drummers and fans of the instrument to buy the magazine because they think they'll get interesting information from the professionals themselves.
The main image is in a black and white colour scheme and the drummer is wearing and baseball cap. These are all suggestive mise-en-scene that this magazine is targeting the rock genre.

The small pictures are layed out around the main image and they all seem to have something in common, the all have a common colour scheme in the picture: red, black and white. I believe this is effective to the overall sophisticated feel the magazine is trying to portray.

The word 'EXCLUSIVE' is written next to one of the subheadings interviews. This word is a superlative and is used to attract audiences because audiences believe that this is the only magazine with an interview with this artist making the magazine more valuble.