Research and Planning: Contents Page Review

Genre

The genre of my magazine will be for a person who enjoys rock/metal.
People who like to go to gigs in the spare time.
Also people who like just talking about music with friends in there spare time.
The colours that are use are bold and are on more of a darker scale than a lot of other magazines. This is show that this is a more masculine type of magazine and is mainly targeted to males but also there are little hits of bight colours to get females eyes caught.
Target audience
The target audience for this magazine will be mainly aged 15-22, the reason i believe this is that most people who enjoy this modern style of music are in there youth, so i believe that they have targeted this magazine to young adults, by putting interests in that will catch there attention and keep them getting it every week.
Layout.
The layout that is used is very simple but effective, all the page numbers are all down the right hand side so they are out of the way and all in one place. Then in the center of the page there are all pictures of the latest stories, things like new albums, interviews with bands and gigs that have been and coming up.  They have made the headline stories bold and highlighted the text into yellow to make them stand out when peoples eyes glance past that die of the page, this way if they only want to read a little bit, thy can find out what page it is on quickly and easily.
Representation
Some of the images use shows some emotion of anger in the images, trying to put some of the emotion of the music they have on to you, also the way that they are dress shows them being different from everyone else, which is what a lot of people who listen to this type of music want, to be different to everyone else, so by looking at this, you get a sense of what they are trying to to.
Media Language

There is a lot mid shots used, in the picture that sands out the most of the lead singer of Prodigy, it is showing a media shot, just from the waste upwards, also on the images below like in the picture of Slipknot that is a mid shot but is also a group shot, showing the togetherness of the band where as the Prodigy picture he is on his own showing individuality. The Mast head is contents page it is just stating the obvious to avoid confusion, it is right at the top and is in yellow text in a black box to make it stand out. There is little pieces of text under all the images as well as a little slug line to each of the images.  Where the editors note is, the image used is a close up so we just see her because she was the only on who had a part of writing that little section. The use of bright colours makes the sections stands out to again try and make it show individuality. The two main stories that they are wanting the readers to look at a almost double the size of the other pictures, this is making it stand out and the writers are almost saying "Read this one", they will do this when it is like an accomplishment, like a band that has never being interviewed before, or if it is a main story that a lot of people are interested in, they will make it stand out from all the rest.