2. NME Cover Analysis
Selling line
Masthead
Main cover line
Main image.
Bar code,date &
The price
Cover Lines
3. “NME” Music Magazine Analysis
• The target audience for NME is young people, both male and
female, we know this because there are always male and female
musicians on the front cover. It has a ratio of 69% male readers
and 31% female readers
• The main readers of this magazine will be the average age of
24 years old because it largely focuses on today’s music.
However, NME won’t appeal to all young people, only the
ones that like music.
• The main image on the front cover is usually very famous singers
or the new-comers. Especially those that has been in the press a
lot as being well known which is what teenagers like the most
and are fascinated about it.
• NME has a simple colour scheme. It uses colours such as red,
blacks and white. In this magazine they have used a light blue
background and pink and white fonts so that the text and the
pictures don’t blend in with it and they stand out more.
4. “NME” Front cover Analysis
•The Masthead : Is the logo of the magazine “NME”which is
short, bold and positioned in the left corner which makes it
more noticeable to the reader and easy to recognize to people
who want to buy this particular magazine.
•Main Image : is a young female singer, she is the lead singer of
the band. She is standing at the front of the band and almost
covers 70% of the front cover in order to grab young male’s
attention because of her looks. Also to grab young girls
attention to look like her.
•The band are dressed all in black. This shows the band in
a more elegant and glamorous look
•Cover lines : are mainly positioned in the left side to catch
the buyers attention. The white and red writing contrast with
the black clothing in the picture.
5. “NME” Front Cover Analysis
• NME has a simple colour scheme. It uses colours such
as red, blacks and white.
• In this magazine they have used a light blue
background and pink, white and black fonts so that
the text and the pictures don’t blend in with it and
they stand out more.
• The language is used is simple, so everything is easy to
understand.
6. Analysis of content page.
• The purpose of a contents page is to give
the reader information about what is inside
the magazine and where to find it. It needs
to be simple and easy to read.
• “NME” uses its logo or the masthead on
the contents page in order to raise publicity
of this magazine to encourage the reader to
recognise their Logo “NME”.
• The big picture of Frank Carter which
shows its importance .
•
This magazine has a “Band Index” which
allows the buyer to look for specific bands
they want to read about. This allows readers
to know if they would be interested in the
included bands.
• This content page also has an advert of the
NME magazine they are offering on
subscriptions to the magazine to promote
their future sales.
7. Double Page of NME Magazine.
The writing in the article is quite small which may be hard to read for older readers and people with bad vision.
NME has used their logo “NME” in the corner next to the page number to promote their magazine.
This is the double page of NME
magazine, one main image is used of a
music band on this article.
There is a small article placed in a text
box in the corner of the picture.
The picture has white blue and black
colour with the band dressed in black
white and blue.
The lead singer standing at the front of
the band is used so that the reader
automatically notices the band because
in music videos and CD covers, the lead
singer is the most recognisable thing
from the band.
The simple bold headings give a
professional look to the double page
spread.
