The NME magazine- The contents page

Personally I dislike the contents page of the NME magazine, I find very busy and a little big hard to understand. The language of the of the contents page does slightly relate to the purpose of the magazine, which is individual music. There is 8 images on the contents page, this is showing a very common pattern on the contents page as the Clash magazine had six pictures on the contents page. This shows that contents pages usually have more than one image on. The biggest image on the NME contents page is off an artist performing on stage at Glastonbury. The artist looks very individual as he has stereotypical clothes on and he has one leg in the air so it shows he getting into his performance. He is also holding a microphone so this proves he is performing. The picture is the biggest out of the six so it shows it more important, Its also in black and white so that makes it stand out even more as all the other five images are in colour.
    All the other five images more or less the same size, I think the larger the image the more important it is, so I think the bigger images of the five means it is a more important story. All the images relate back to what the magazine stand for, their all very individual. In two the of pictures people are using guitars which is often associated with the type of music NME stands for. All the clothes in the images also relate back to stereotypes of the magazine its all individual and suits that type of music.
    The layout of the magazine is different to the Clash Magazine. The title is central of the page at the very top, this is so readers read this firstand realise what page they are on. In the very middle of the page is the biggest image, this is so readers are aware that it is the most important story of the magazine. Almost symmetrically there is two images on either side on the page, this gives the page order and doesn't look as though everything is scattered everywhere. Due to these four images being near the main important one its easy to understand that these are the other main stories in that issue. At the bottom of the page is a few page listings and three more images, however these are all different sizes. I believe these are at the bottom so people don't tend to take as much notice as they aren't as important.
   Throughout the page the font is regularly changed from to thin, I dislike this affect as I think it makes the contents page hard to read and makes it look a bit overcrowded, its all different sizes and various fonts, I personally dont think its work. The biggest and boldest font is the Title of the page, This is because people like to know what page they are on.
   The contents page is very bland and simple I don't think it reflects very well the readers of the magazine, its simple and boring wheres I thought it would be more colourful and more individual. The only colour on the page is the Images, wheres as the background and text is all black and white, I think this makes the whole page rather boring however it makes the images stand out more, maybe this is why they do it.