Contents Page Analysis: NME

The following contents page was taken from a 2008 edition of NME magazine.  See here, for a small description of who NME are.

The page starts with a fairly small NME logo in red and white in the top left with the page title 'This Week' and the date to the right of it in black.  Below the rest of the page is split into two columns.  The left column is actually a small article which shows reader two pictures that were sent by other readers.

Below the images there is a small amount of text about the article and a small advert below that.  This is strange for a contents page and breaks the general conventions of contents pages as most of the ones I have seen so far have contained just information about what is inside the issue, not articles of their own.

The right hand columns contains the usually contents page information.  It starts with main articles of the issue split into different sub-sections such as 'News' and 'Features', inside these sub-sections there and the pages numbers of the articles and a small title and description.  The title is in a bolder text and in bold where as the small description is is normal capitalisation and a smaller font.  Below this there is a small 'Plus' section with and a larger rectangle box with information about a 'Gig guide'.