The front cover of NME consists of a colour scheme of red, light blue and white. The masthead of the music magazine is positioned at the top of the page in the top left hand corner so the audience can clearly see the name of the magazine. The masthead is in red, bold and capital font to help it stand out from the other text.
The magazine’s front cover consists of one large image which is the artist of the main story in the magazine. The image is positioned in the middle of the page, with the artist focused and looking into the reader’s eyes to try and intrigued them into reading the magazine.
The magazine front cover consists of key conventions of a barcode, the price of the magazine and the date to tell the audience if the magazine news is recent or old.
The texts for the other articles are spread on the left hand side and right hand side of the image to fill in the blank spaces. The sub headings or the articles are in larger font than the text underneath it and also a different colour to help separate the text. The large image which is the main story has the sub heading across the middle of the page in large font. Each different colour helps explain something different in the article. The words Carl Barat is in red font to tell the audience who is the artist on the magazine and involved in the article to help it stand out instead of it fading in to the other text. The quote above the text which says Carl Barat is in a light blue colour which helps it stand out from the text below so the reader can read information about what he says without giving much away. The final sentence is in white font which is giving information about the story without giving much away to help encourage the specific target audience to buy the music magazine.
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Contents (NME,
The contents is structured by using an image dominated look. Each story which includes a sub heading includes a photo so the audience can understand roughly what the story is about without the magazine giving to much away to the target audience. The largest image on the page suggests to the audience that it is the main story in the magazine.
Next to each image relating to each story there are page numbers to tell the audience what page the articles are on so the magazine is well organised and easy to use for the reader.
Each story on the contents page is separated by using a line to help the magazine stay organised and well spread out. The subheadings for the text is in bold black font to help it be separated from the text under the article which explains a little bit more about the stories. The text is un-bold and in a smaller font so the target audience can be attracted to seeing the sub heading which is the main sentence to pull the reader in.
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Double Page Spread (NME, Monday 4 October 2010 )
The double page spread is separated into two distinct sides on one side the page is filled with an image and on the other side it consists of text about the image of the artist.
The structure of the double page spread has three columns for the text. The text starts off with a drop capital to show the target audience where the writing starts, the drop capital is in purple font to help it stand out from the other text which is in black font.
At the bottom of the magazine in the bottom right and left hand corners are the page numbers to tell the audience what page the article is on when looking from the contents. Next to the page number the magazine includes the name of the magazine which is NME, this reminds the reader the name of the magazine if the article is good and interesting as they will want to buy the next week issue to read again.
The masthead of the double page spread take up half the page as it is in very large black, bold font as it stands out for the audience and it relates to the image on the other side of the page as it says “Carl takes aim” and in the picture he is holding a very good use of a prop which is a gun which relates to the title combining both together with good effect for the audience reading the music magazine.
The image of the artist is well positioned in the middle of the page and it is taken as a medium shot and his eyes are focused and looking towards the audience.
Underneath the masthead is the subheading which is in large font but not as large as the masthead but is larger than the text explaining the story. This helps the audience become even more intrigued in reading it as this sub heading attracts the reader to continue reading the rest of the article.
The masthead and subheading is separated with a black band as this gives good effect to know when the article has started with the artist.
The quote on the page of the image prevents that side of the double page spread not looking to dull and plain as it makes the reader focus their attentions on reading that text on that page. The white colour of the text works on the dark background as it stands out and catches the reader’s eye when opening up the double page spread.
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