Analysis of music magazine: NME

1. Magazine Analysis One
AS Media Coursework
Dean Humphries

2. NME is a music magazine that
advertises to mainly men around the
ages of 17-25. The price of the
magazine is reasonable for its target
audience at £2.50. The content of the
magazine is a mix between
articles, reviews, advertisements, and
read-ups on local and national
bands/pop stars.

3. Flasher: The
Masthead: The flasher enables a
masthead is one of particular
the most advertisement
dominating from the
aspects of the magazine to
magazine, it stand out to the
Main Coverline:
audience.
catches the
The main
audiences eye with
Coverline usually
its capital letters
relates to the
and deep red
main image, and
colors; with the
Main Image: gives us insight
black and white
The main image into what its
outline. Pull Quote: The
is also very eye about.
pull quote is
catching and is
usually again
the toll used to
related to the
entice the
main image, said
audience to buy
by the person
it. Most buyers
that is
of the magazine
advertised, usuall
will buy it
y linedLines: The
Cover to an
relating to the
articlelines usually
cover in the
image on the
magazine. the
just enable
cover, and
whetherThe footer
Footer: it audience to see
interests them
usually includes what is going to be
or not.
the names of the features in the
artists featured in magazine
Price +
the magazine Barcode

4. House Style: The house style of NME is
big, bold and big! The colors that are
always used are red, black, yellow, and
white. All mastheads and headers are
always in capital letters to stand out.
Magazines have their own individual house
style to the audience can relate to
them, and to be individualistic. The
contents page has a clean but abstract
layout, main featured articles and reviews
are pointed out and numbered, whist some
pages are missed. On the left had side the
is a column for the index, which lists
everything included in the magazine so the
audience can find the pages quickly and
easily. In the middle of the page there is a
main image with an editorial attached
which is written in ‘chat’ like speech. The
text is very informal keeping in with the
magazines target audience, and not
forgetting this is not an academic
magazine!

5. Main Image: The
main image relates to
article. This shows
Dizee Rascal as
being
rebellious, which
could be suggesting
a stereotype about
the audience. The
image fills a full page
of A4 to show its
importance to the
article.
Standfirst: The Main Article: This Byline and Picture
standfirst is an Drop Capital: The drop is the bulk of the Credits: Who the
introduction to the capital is the first letter in main article in article was written by
article, so the reader the article which s bigger continued prose. and who took the
can glance over it and than all the rest. pictures.
see if it interests them.