Dolly Parton contents page 4 country

This is the contents page from 'Country' magazine. It has a very vintage look about the image, I think this because black and white images are used and the style of clothing is vintage but also western. A lot of the page is taken up by a picture of Dolly Parton, who is also the model they used for the front cover of the magazine. All the text is down the right side of the page and the pictures next to it. Also the number on the large image is in a different colour to tell the audience that it is the main story.

This is not appropriate for my target audience because it has a style that suits an older audience.

The contents does not have the magazine name on it, however at the bottom right corner of the page is has the website for the magazine, which suggests that even though the images and models look like they are targeted at an older audience, they could be trying to attract a younger audience as well as younger people tend to use the internet more than older people.

I think that the publisher used this image because it shows how she used to look when she was younger. I think this works in cohesion withy the front cover as the publisher is trying to create a message that she is still as good looking as she was when she was younger.

Other pictures on there do not stand out as much because they are smaller and their page numbers do not stand out as much. I like this picture of 'Jimmy Webb' under the picture of Dolly. I like this picture because of the way the model is positioned playing the piano; the piano boars is coming up over his head so it shows the top half of the model which looks like the piano is being used to frame the model.

This magazine is different and not very conventional as it has the contents page on two sides back to back. This is different as contents pages are usually one sided or are spread across two pages next to each other.

The layout of this side matches the front cover because it is not dominated by text and focuses on the image of Dolly Parton, which is the same as the front cover because there is hardly any text on the front cover, only a picture of Dolly which suggests to the audience that the magazine is about representing her and her good looks.

This contents page supports the theory of Neale "repetition and difference" because there are many contents pages with this theme of text down the side and a large picture next to it. However this is different because it includes reviews and more pictures at the bottom of the page.

The model has exotic clothing on which stands out to the audience because it is different and eye catching. This proves Mulveys theory to be correct because the model is using "the male gaze" which could be to attract a female audience to the page. The page has a puff next to the model to say who it is and what page in the magazine he is on.

The model is holding the guitar differently to how people would usually hold it. He is holding it by its neck and people usually hold it by its body, so he is breaking conventions. This image has been manipulated to make the model look good by, air brushing him so he has clear skin and it look like he has been cut out and pasted on a plain white background so people focus on him. At the top of the page there is the dateline that the magazine was published, which is also on the front cover. 

Overall there are 20 different stories in this magazine, which suggests that this magazine is produced monthly instead of weekly as it has so many features inside. This also tells us that the magazine will be more expensive as it is longer than weekly magazines so they will want to make more money from them.

There are 3 different sections on this contents page: features, regulars and reviews. The features and regulars are sectioned out so they go down the side of the page next to the images, but the reviews are different as they go along the bottom of the image. This could be because the publisher wanted to fit them all on one page and wanted to have more   images to go with the features. Also I think this is done because they did not want to squash the image of 'Marty Stuart' as they want him to be a stand out feature on the page.

Both contents covers are dominated by images as they want to attract the audience with images as the magazine wants to represent the models and their good looks. Also there is a lot of pictures on this page suggesting that the publisher wants the audience to focus on the images .