Analysing a contents page not of my genre.

First of all this is the magazine which I have purchased. This is a music magazine for the artistic Genre of rock, in fact it's one of the most leading rock magazines in the UK.
There are a list of key features this magazine cover shows to us and I would like to share that same list with you , with my list I shall give a mini explanation if possible.

This magazine cover uses:
-Masthead, the masthead is very well used in order to show to the audience what the magazine is called.
-The angle of gaze, this is when the people on the front page are staring at you(the reader), this may influence people into picking up the magazine as it symbolizes that the magazine is made specifically for you.
-Bleed.
-Barcode, this shows that its a consumers magazine.
-Midshot, to show most of the models and what they are what type of singers they are.
-Pull quote, to grip the reader.
-Feature, to promote.

So Now this brings us to the contents section of our magazine which is heavily dependent on its structure to influence the readers to read more, the contents page are divided into sections, those sections are : News, Feedback, Features, Shots, Lives, Albums, Gig Guide and The All New Rockstar Test!

Also on the top right hand side of the page the word 'Contents' is there and this is appropriate as now the readers know in where to look for their desired page(s) that they would like to read, an added contents page is essential for pretty much any magazine nowadays because frankly it saves so much time for the readers to skim read and its also good for the company.
The contents page as I said is good for the publishing company because it highlights key pages inside the magazine and this draws in the attention of many readers looking for specific articles.

To the left of the contents page there is a wonderful message by the editor describing the magazine in a few short words and this is very critical as he is explaining what he wants to achieve in the magazine and what he has done so far also what is in this current issue.

Also the use of images in this contents page are phenomenal as all the images in this show a little something about what this music magazine is and what exactly it stands for.