Research and Planning- Music Contents Page Analysis

 Genre -
The genre that is shown throughout this contents page is quite indie and chilled/laid back. It's also quite soft rock and retro. The bands featured on this page fit into this music sector as these bands don't usually feature in the R&B charts or such, they're usually on channels that are suited to this type of genre only. The 'band index' that takes up the left hand side of the page also shows this.

Target Audience
This target audience for this magazine shown through the contents page would be around a student still in college or high school and a university student.  The age group would be from 15 to around 25ish depending whether they are into this genre, but this genre usually applies to this age. You can tell this buy this colours as well and the content used within this page. I reckon they'll be middle-class as well because the fact that this magazine holds a lot of information about all the key bands implies it might not be cheap considering it is only a magazine.

Layout

One whole side is taken for the band index which would probably be the main attraction for  their audience as they'll be interested in all the gossip on their  favourite bands, but then the layout changes so that one main story has a picture and a large heading giving it dominance. The whole magazine is just basically sectioned into three columns and then the last column features more subheadings which are the main information probably, within this magazine.  Stories which are featured in these main headings are listed to give an over-view to the reader whether it's  going to be interesting.

Representations

The people featured in this magazine is a band that's a main story on the contents page.  Their percieved as a successful band that are playing in gigs and have that type of indie attitude as it's represented in their clothing.  The fashion for 'indie/soft rock/retro' follows this fashion and the band/s fashion style fits into this,  

Media  Language

There's only two pictures on this contents page and  they're both long shot, to give  the impression and assure the readers that they're in a gig or a concert of some sort.  It suites the magazine as gigs are part of the contents and appeals to the audience.  You can also perceive their attitude through long shot, by the way they're standing etc but they just seem focused on their music.