The first music magazine contents page which I will be analysing is a NME magazine contents page from the January the 17th 2009. This magazine contents page uses various conventions of a typical music magazine contents page.
This magazine contents page uses such language styles as having a series of images situated in the center of the page displaying other pages of the magazine which appear to be interviews of various bands. With the tag line of "everything you need to hear this year" this uses a rhyming technique to make the tag line more catchy as well as suggesting that the bands reviewed within this music magazine are the only albums/bands which you need to listen to. This magazine also uses another masthead which also contains the name of the magazine NME. This magazine cover also contains a typical advertisement intended for the reader to subscribe to the magazine allowing for the reader to pay a fixed sum of money for a future series of there magazines delivered to there front door. This magazine features various tabs filled with information about the content of the magazine such as reviews, news and a band index for all of the bands referenced within the magazine.
This contents page does not show any information about it's institution other than the masthead containing the name of the magazine. This magazine contents page contains various areas of ideology such as the mentioned earlier about the tag line for the images within the contents. This tag line "everything you need to hear this year" is suggesting that they, the music magazine NME have everything which you need to hear this year. This is quite a assumption suggesting that this is the only music you wish to listen to.
The audience that this music magazine is possibly aimed at is the a young population who likes such bands and music styles as indie and similar music styles. This magazine represents the population who read and buy this magazine to be lively and active wanting to go to as many gigs or concerts as possible for them. I think this because there is an entire section devoted to this cause amongst one f the pages.
This magazine uses various conventions and elements for it's contents page. Such as the contents page uses such things as a masthead displaying the name of the magazine and the name of the page being the contents page. This page also has a series of lists and references to the other pages along with a large central image which appears to be quite a consistent convention of a contents page. There is two images on this contents page one main one and one placed along with a review section. This could be used to imply what the review is about before the reader or consumer begins to start reading about the contents of the review.
This magazine uses institutions such as the name of the magazine based upon the top of the contents page. There is also the name of the band which is displayed in the magazine contents page "The Courteeners" this is used to advertise and essentially sell the band whilst at the same time the band within the magazine is also selling the magazine as some consumers may wish to read about such bands thus buying the appropriate magazine.
This magazine uses ideology such as the idea of representing "The Courteeners" as a group of ordinary people which essentially is what they are. They do this by adding a comment saying, "He's just showing off". This implies that the band have there woes and not so good factors keeping them from being perfect and different people.
This magazine suggests that the audience for this magazine is young to middle aged people as this magazine has also had people such as the rich and powerful ex-member of the Beatles Paul McCartney. This man is one of the few members of the band still loved by many who have lived the test of time and the hardship of a powerful life.
This magazine represents the band "The Courteeners" as a young aspiring band who wish to flourish into a much more powerful band than they currently are.
The contents page uses various language techniques such as it contains lots of images. Three of these are images of the staff working on the magazine and other images related to the content of the magazine.
The magazine's institutions such as the publisher is Bauer Media and the creators of the magazine are Mojo. They use other peoples institutions for there own devices such as for producing articles about different bands and people.
The magazine uses such ideology as in one of the images there is the words "Mojo Men" this could suggest that the readers may consider themselves men from reading this magazine.
The magazine's target audience appears to the middle a young adult age groups as this contents page contains various elements such as two of the images are cartoons suggesting a younger viewing audience.
This magazine contents page represents
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