Textual Analysis: Contents page

This is the contents page for the magazine kerrang. It is a typical kerrang contents, seeing though near enough all of the magazines have the same contents layout. You have the same masthead so you know what magazine your reading, the subheadings are in collums. Also next the the masthead saying kerrang, it says this week, this could tell the reader that the magazine comes out weekly. There is a picture of Marilyn Manson on the contents page with his name underneath it, so this could tell the reader that there is something in the magazine that is to do with marilyn mason. There is also little notices at the bottom of the contents page which tell you what else you can expect to find inside this magazine such as posters and an advertisment for a subcription to kerrang magazing, along with the number you can call to get this.




The next contents page is from Q magazine, this contents page has a much cleaner layout, but looks kind of bland compared to the Kerrang contents page. There is a huge picture of a band which means theres going to be an artical on them somewhere in the magazine and in the text box underneath it says what number page you can find them. There is a section that is an 'Oasis Special' which would mean that that section would be about the band Oasis. The subheadings in the contents are all layed out in one tidy collum with not much colour, but has quite a bit of writing under them to explain what each of the headings are about.