The document describes various aspects of the magazines NME and Kerrang, including their target audiences, publication details, and analysis of sample front covers and spreads. Key points include: - Both magazines target students and young adults and focus on indie, rock, and metal music news and reviews. - They publish weekly, with issues costing between £1.20-£2.40 available in stores and through subscriptions. - The analyzed front covers prominently feature the main band of focus through large images and text, with additional articles. Contents pages list pieces in columns. - Double-page spreads contain a full band interview through multiple images, text, and pull quotes.

2. Type/ Focus of Magazines
 NME - Indie, Rock, some chart music.
 The target audience is students and young adults (similar to
my magazine idea)
 Looks into live events and gigs etc.
 Interviews, competitions and posters.
 Kerrang –Rock, some Indie, Metal.
 The target audience is students and young adults, as well as
some of the older generation if they are into the music.
 Looks into plenty of live events and gigs etc.
 Interviews, reviews, competitions and posters.

3. Publishing Companies
 NME’s publishing company is a magazine and digital
publisher called IPC Publishing.
 Kerrang’s publishing company is another magazine and
digital publisher called Bauer publishing.

4. Editor’s Name’s
 NME’s editor is their deputy editor Mike Williams after the
head editor left.
 Kerrang’s editor is James McMahon.

5. Dates of First Publication
 The first ever issue of NME was published on the 7th March
1952.
 The first ever issue of Kerrang was published on the 6th June
1981.

6. Frequency of Publication
 A new issue of NME comes out every
week.
 Kerrang publishes a new issue every
week.

7. Prices
 The current price for each issue of NME
is £2.40.
 The current price for each issue of
Kerrang is £1.20.

8. Distribution – ie how/where
readers can get them
 Readers of NME can get each issue every week
from the majority of stores across the UK, or order
each issue monthly online by subscribing to them
and the copies will be delivered to their doorstep.
 Alike with NME, readers can buy each issue ever
week in their local shops and in majority of stores
across the UK, and even pay a monthly or a
annual subscription online and have them
delivered to their doorstep.

9. NME - Analysis of Front
Cover
Here is the front cover to the NME issue that I
am analysing. As you ca see, there is an
image of the main band that this issue will
focus on, which is the Arctic Monkeys. Their
band name is in big, bold text so it is easy to
see and it will catch people’s attention. The
front cover also includes sections on other
bands which everyone is talking about.
I will look to use these as some of the articles
on my front cover. The band on this front
cover features on the double-page
spread, which I will implement onto my
double-page spread.

10. NME - Analysis of Contents
Page
This is the contents page for the NME issue
that I am analysing. You can see that it
everything is in columns, and that everything
fits in place. It includes articles about
upcoming bands, reviews on various things
and live shows etc.
Again, it shows another image of the Arctic
Monkeys as their main star of the magazine.
It also clearly indicates where the readers go
to read the interview on the double-page
spread. Also, this issue of NME sticks to one
colour scheme. These are some of the
colours I intend to use on my magazine.

11. NME - Analysis of Double Page
Spread
Here is the double-page spread of
the NME issue that I am analysing.
As you can see, there is an interview
with the Arctic Monkeys on the
spread full of text, images and even
pull quotes from the interview in big
bold text. The pages are quite full
and the images have annotations on
them.
I plan to use some of these aspects
in my magazine itself as I think that it
could easily appeal to new readers.
There is also another double-page
spread focusing on the Arctic
Monkeys that shows more text and
images.

12. NME - Explanation of Aspects I
intend to use/imitate in my
magazine front cover, just like NME, I intend to use one
Front Cover – On my
specific Indie band that is on the up-rise and focus my other pages
on this band. Also, I will be using pull quotes from the band that
appear in the interview on the double-page spread. I will also use
some of the colours used such as reds and whites.
Contents Page – On my contents page, I will look to put the article titles
into columns so it looks neat and tidy, and easy for the reader to
look at. Again, I will use the same colours on this page as I used on
the cover page. I will also include puffs that will interest the readers
such as how to enter competitions etc. I will also look to completely
fill the contents page so there are no gaps.
Double-page Spread – Just like on the double-page spread in the NME
issue, I will look to us 1-3 images of the band, and plenty of text
which will come from the interview of the band I hope to feature.
There will be pull quotes around the text and images just like on the
front cover.

13. Kerrang – Analysis of Front
Cover
From this front cover, we can see that
there is one main image used as the star
of the magazine. There is big, bold text
identifying the band on the front, helping
the reader to identify the band that this
issue is focusing on. The colour scheme is
also significant as the text and images
stand out. I will be looking to possibly
implement some of these colours onto my
magazine pages.
The star of this magazine will also appear
on the double-page spread.

14. Kerrang – Analysis of Contents
Page

15. Kerrang – Analysis of Double-
Page Spread
From this, we can see that another
image has been used of the band to
cover the two pages, and the rest of the
page is covered in text. It also uses
smaller images and pull quotes from
the interview with the band. The colour
scheme is also slightly different.

16. Kerrang – Explanation of
Aspects I Intend to Use in My
Magazine I will look to use one big, main image of a
Front Cover – From this,
.
band of my choice that will be the focus of the other pages I also
intend on using the electric blue colour that features on there to
make my images and text stand out.
Cover Page –
Double-page Spread – Just like with the double-page spread from
NME, I will use another big, main image of the band I use and also
use smaller images to fill the pages, I will also use pull quotes from
the interview with the band.