full magazine analysis


Front Page…

Nice large title stating the magazines name (NME). Just like every NME magazine the title is Big and red with the usual white outline. This front cover only has one photograph, which is a photograph of arctic monkeys. This is because arctic monkeys have the biggest article in this magazine, resulting in fans of this band buying the magazine. There are a couple of captions to go with the photograph which states what the article is about in one sentence. These magazines do not want to give too much away as they want to sell the magazine. A lot of the front page is taken up by the band name. This is to catch the fans attention so that they sell it. As always there is a small area at the bottom of the page which tells you about other small and exciting articles that there are to read in this issue.

Contents page…

The contents page for this issue of NME takes up two pages for extra information. Although this is not the case as the writing is large which takes up a lot of room. Numbered articles show the order of the articles in the magazine which makes it easier to find those articles which really mean something to you. Each part of information has a nice large space so that the pages are not all jumbled up. Nice large photographs of the bands. Everyone loves photographs more than they do writing as it is much easier and quicker. Only three colours used. Black, red, and white, this keeps the contents simple. Too many colours make the page too much to handle.

Next page in from the contents pages is an article on the lead singer of the strokes. This article is about the singer fulfilling a life time ambition by bringing out a Christmas song this Christmas. To go with with this article is a photograph of the singer which takes up the entire page.

The following two pages are just a couple of pages with a few artist and information. Nice large photographs and easy to read heading give these pages a lot for the reader to do. This page just explains what has happened to a few bands in the last week. Not particularly the most exciting of pages in this issue.