NME contents page deconstruction

The date of the issue is under the masthead ‘Inside this week’, the date was the 21/9/2013. The website links are at the bottom of the page in the right hand corner, this links to the magazine website and the subscriptions you can get for the magazines.The text is jumplines to different articles in the magazine. This helps the reader to easily find which article they are most interested in reading. There isn't much text on the page, there’s more pictures than writing. The order of the contents page is organised into four columns and each main article has their own little box. The only numerical features on the contents page are the page numbers of different articles and also the issue’s date. The font that has been used is bold and consists of all capitals. This would be to capture the reader’s attention when reading the magazine, the colour of the font is mainly black, but for the page numbers they have used red, because it will stand out on a white background, and it would also stand out against the black writing. Italics have been used for a quote which has came from what looks to be the main article as it is in the centre of the page, and has more space on the page more than any other article. The text is bold when quoting something from an article.
There are 11 images on the contents page of NME, there are images of some issues of the magazine, a image taken from a gig/ festival, and five images of different artists who are included in that issue of NME. The images are there to catch the reader’s eye and also to give a bit more information about the article which has been written. The three main colour that have been used on NME are black, white and red.  The colours in the images are quite dark colours, they have used a lot of deep reds, blacks, whites and grey. This could give the magazine an old feel, like it has been around for a long time.