As you can see from the image above, the contents page is extracted from NME music magazine. There are a number of features which work together in order to determine the target audience, a typical reader of NME and what age group the reader is. Firstly, much like other contents pages, there is a main image which is usually of the main band/artist that the magazine is based on due to its cover line and left third. Within the image, the band is wearing mostly black, with a black background and playing electric guitars. this is setting the genre of music and giving the readers  a subtle insight as to what the magazine will contain. 

The colour scheme of the contents page brightens up the heavier impression given within the top half of the page. The bottom half is based mainly on red and white. This combination of colours don't reinforce and particular category of music; they are neutral colours. This leads to the point that the band the magazine is based on is in between rock and lighter rock, meaning a wider range of target audience will be able to relate and enjoy the magazine. Also, the band arctic monkeys (the band within the image) is a light rock, rock band which are in between the two genres. 

The layout of the contents page also reinforces the point stated above of the genre presented by arctic monkeys being in between rock and light rock. The fact that the page is almost split in half with the darker colour at the top and the lighter ones at the bottom. The top banner is a bulky black title of the contents page whereas the bottom contains text on a white background which adds the lighter side to their genre. Although the layout of the page is not 100% split in an exact half, the diverse colours presented suggests the middle genre of rock and light rock.