1. Case Study
The magazine NME is a magazine which focuses on the rock and indie genres and the
new music in these genres. It is published by IPC Media in the UK. NME is a weekly
magazine released every Wednesday. The editor of the NME is Mike Williams, he was
named editor in May 2012 over Krissi Murison. The first NME was published in March
1952.
NME can be purchased from most supermarkets/ news agents / HMV ect...

2. Case Study
Bold Title Striking
images
Anchorage Text
Contains Buzz
relative to
words
image

3. Detailed analysis of front cover.
The NME front cover always contains a bold red masthead “NME” and usualy a
large image of a single person instead of the whole band. It always contains
relative anchorage text in red and white, the main point in the anchorage text is
done in the same font as the masthead and the rest is done in an alternative
text. The colour scheme for the NME is red, white and black. The front cover of
NME contains examples of buzzwords “exclusive” and cover lines “T in the park
preview”.

4. Case Study
Title
Image of main
article
Page
index
Advert

5. Detailed analysis of contents page
The NME contents page has similar conventions as the front cover e.g. It has the
same colour scheme (red/white/black). The contents page contains adverts which
stand out because they don't follow the colour scheme. The contents page is also
set out in columns and only contains one main image instead of lots of little ones.

6. Case Study
Large
images of
band
Drop
capitals Small
font
(8pt.)
Page number

7. Detailed analysis of double page
spread
The double page spread in NME again follows the colour scheme of red white
and black. The double page spread also contains larger images relating to the
article and smaller ones the biggest taking up half a page. The first capital in
each paragraph uses drop capitals and the first capital in the article is much
bigger than the rest. The pictures have captions aswell.

8. Conclusion
I will be using some aspects of the NME in my magazine such as using a repeating
colour scheme throughout the whole magazine. Also NME approaches the same sort
of music as my magazine will cover.
Things that I will not be doing in my magazine is publishing it weekly I will be
publishing a quarterly magazine. Also my magazine will be free.