NME magazine contents page

This particular contents page is out of an issue of the mass market magazine NME. The first feature of the contents page is the scaled down magazine master head and ‘this week’ to infer that it is the contents page of the magazine. Other magazines just tend to use the ‘contents’ which make NME different. The date of the contents is also located underneath. Down the right hand side of the page is the features of the magazine which are made simpler by the use of subheadings such as ‘news’ and ‘radar’. The style of font used is kept consistent throughout the magazine making this font a ‘NME font’. Across the bottom of the contents page is an advertisement for the NME, this is usually for subscriptions or NME related products/features. Down the left hand side of the magazine is a band index which is featured in every magazine of the NME this is another style of the NME. This is where the reader is able to look out for their favourite bands in each issue of the magazine. Also this is a way the reader can easily locate where the band article will be rather than having to trundle through the magazine to find them. The bands are always featured in red and the page numbers are always black which is keeping the house style of the magazine. On the contents page of the NME always in the centre is a picture in relation to a feature in the magazine. Sometimes this image may not be related to anything, just a story to tell. The picture will have a small paragraph to go with it and also a ‘continued on’ page number for the reader to relate to the paragraph.