Analysing contents pages

	NME	Marie Claire	OK	Scratch
Target audience	Teenagers and onwards. Male and female	Female – Middle aged	Male and female. Teenagers and onwards.	Females. Middle aged.
Price/frequency	£2.40/ Weekly	£3.70/monthly	£1/weekly	£3.99/monthly
Number of pictures	8	8	4	5
Analysis of pictures	Musician – what they are doing/what they are up to.	Preview of article. Pictures of public and reality.	The pictures are to show who the articles are involving.	Picture sizes differ, every picture to do with the tittle and what it’s about.
Picture captions/labels	Quotes from the articles.	Insight of articles.	Who they’re about.	None.
Language used	Quotes used.	Persuasive language used.	Plain language used, information	There are play on words and information under main heading.
Number of pages in the magazine/number of articles mentioned	7 articles mentioned	44 articles mentioned 258 pages in the magazine.	3 articles are mentioned, 146 pages in the magazine.	136 pages.
Use of colour	Black and white page, coloured pictures and adverts.	Black and white page with coloured pictures.	White tittle, mixture of colour throughout in text and pictures.	Black and white article with brightly coloured pictures.
Use of font	The tittle used black and bold. The font differs throughout.	Black, bold text fonts and the size differ.	Font differs so does the colour of font and styles.	Font differs throughout but always written in black. Text  size differs, font the same throughout.
Any other information	Layout is simple, neatly laid out. Adverts used special deals.	Relates to audience and audience lives.	It is set out in a very messy with writing everywhere and isn’t very neat.	Layout is simple with lots of pictures and not as much writing.