Real media artefact 3 - Kerrang contents page

The contents page of Kerrang, issue 1348 does not follow the house style that the front cover sets. The front cover uses blue and black. However the contents uses yellow and black. These two colours together have connotations of danger or warnings. This will attract the reader as it portrays an intriguing image. The house style, however, does seem to be more primary colours and black rather than one particular colour. I think this is to create a contrast. However the idea of using plain bold fonts is continued for the main information and the destroyed font for main headings is shown in the contents aswell as the front cover. Again this could be to cause a connotation with this look and the magazine to remind the reader when they see this font effect.

Kerrang's contents page in this issue has quite a simple layout. It has a heading 'CONTENTS' in the top left hand corner and a main image of the band 'Escape the fate' at the top and what page number this is on. The image is very much forgrounded on the page, this could be because they are not mentioned on the front cover. I think Kerrang do this because the audience will see that they were not mentioned on the front cover and then it'll be an unexpected content and they may wonder what other unexpected contents are throughout the magazine and then buy it to find out.

It then states 'Kerrang this week' and then the features the magazine has. This will allow the reader to believe that the magazine has new content every week therefore again, acting as an incentive to buy it again to find out what is in Kerrang the next week. Most of the contents list is in chronological order however there are a few contents that are foregrounded in some way, these will be the main features of the magazine and what Kerrang will feel appeal to the audience the most to make them buy it. It also has an editors letter in the bottom left corner. This will most likely be a house style that the magazine always use.

From looking at previous issues of Kerrang I have noticed that the range of contents is very similar in the way in which it has contents specific to this issue and then has areas of contents that is the same in every issue. For example, 'News' 'Live reviews' and 'Feedback.' They are also presented with the same house style in each issue of black boxes with yellow distressed font style writing. This repetition will be for the regular purchasers of Kerrang