Analysis of a contents page of a music magazine 'Spin'

This contents page is from Spin magazine and is a simple example of a music magazine contents page. Instead of having many pictures, there is one picture and this serves as the complete focus for this page. The image for this contents page is of a famous female artists, Duffy, who reflects the type of music that this magazine looks at and reflects the type of audience that Spin magazine is targeted at. The way inwhich Duffy is holding the ukelele suggests that she is poised to smash it. Again this reflects the type of music that this magazine portrays. It is a rock/alternative magazine, so the magazine is showing an action that people think rock stars should be doing. They have done this by looking at stereotypical views that the audience has of this music genre and using an image that will attract the audience attention to the magazine. The amount of lighting focused on Duffy is more than the amount of lighting focused else where. The image shows a shaddow behind Duffy which helps to bring the image more forward. This gives more of a 3D feel to the image, making it stand out and entice the targeted audience in. With light focused particularly on her face, this gives the impression that she is a rock/alternative atists and this is the type of music genre within the magazine. By bringing the image more foward and centred than the text this suggests to the audience that she is of importance within the magazine as is most likely the main feature of this issue of Spin magazine. The writing to the left side of the page is kept simple and basic by doing this it means that the reader is overwhelmed by lots of colours and images. The text for the contents  The logo for the magazine is in the top left-hand corner is just in the same place that it is on the front cover. This gives a sense of cohesion for the magazine, that everything is together. And the red of the logo contrast with the quite muted colours of the image. This makes it stand out and the name of the magazine gets reinforced in their head, they are more likely to remember it. In the top right-hand corner, there is a quote from Duffy. This gives readers a little insight into her and the article. But because its so short they don't get to know very much, this will make people want to read the article to know what she's saying and what context it is in. In the actual contents, which are placed next to the singer, are very simple. There is no background, but the names of the band are in bold, this means that it is easy to see which bands are in the magazine.