Music Magazine - Magazine Analysis Contents Page - Rocksound.

The layout of this contents page taken from the rock magazine 'Rocksound' is quite basic. Despite the simplicity of this text, it is quite informative, and therefore gets the information across to the audience easily.

The headline of each article is visibly separated from the captions that explain in a simple sentence about the subject of the article. The headlines are written in a white bold font which don't necessarily 'scream' from the page, however, they are easy to reader making it much more efficient for the reader of the text, which goes along with general conventions.

The repeated use of the word 'Page' is non existent throughout this text, also going against general conventions. Instead of repeating the word 'page', in it's place is just the page numbers, which also happens within the content page of Kerrang! and similar music magazines.

Jacoby Shaddix is the main focal point of this contents page, with his image being accompanied by a pull quote taken from the article that he is featured in. The quote says 'Hmmm...maybe I am a closet Justin Bieber fan'. A page number of 38 is also next to the pull quote, meaning that if fans are intrigued about the quote, then they can simply flick to the page number to find out more. Though, because of the way that the audience of the magazine read, for example, from left to right, the pull quote may not be as noticeable as the publishers were intending to achieve, therefore not directly directing them to the audience of Jacoby Shaddix immediately.

The black, white and baby blue colours used as part of the general colour scheme are taken from the top that Jacoby Shaddix is wearing. The use of the baby blue and white however, could be to simply get away from the general associations that people in such magazines with the genre like 'red and black' which is often associated with the goth/emo/mosher sub-cultures within society.

'Rocksound' the masthead is clearly labelled at the top of the page in the left hand corner, written in the font and font size that it is always written in.

Underneath the masthead, the date and the issue of the magazine can be seen. The number of issues previously sold before this specific contents page is 141 and that is also including the current one that I am discussing. This could suggest that they are quite a successful magazine, if they have released 141 issues, on a monthly basis.