The document analyzes and compares the layout designs of two music magazines: NME and a student-created magazine. Some key differences noted include: - The student magazine separates interview questions and answers clearly for easier reading, while the NME spread is harder to understand. - The student magazine includes more photos on the contents page to make it look busier, while the NME follows conventions. - The NME has an introduction to the magazine, while the student magazine is more functional and easy to use. - The student magazine maintains a consistent house style and font throughout, while the NME uses different colored fonts within the magazine.

1. Band included on front
cover. Haven’t just
used main member but
all of the band. This is
to represent the band
as being all one and
that it isn’t just about 1
person in the band.
Name/title of magazine
highlighted and bold.
Stands out from the rest
of the magazine. This is
so that the magazine can
be spotted and the fans
of the magazine can
always put the name to
the magazine.
Barcode
Give aways used
in both
magazines. This
would reel in the
attention of the
audience
because they
would purchase
the magazine to
get these give
aways.
Yellow was used for the title and anchorage in the NME magazine and
we also decided to use this colour. This is because it connotes
liveliness and activity. It is a loud colour which would shout out to the
audience and get their attention.

2. The layout of each interview is varied. In our magazine the
questions and answers are clearly separated, this would make it
easier for the readers to read and understand in comparison to
the NME double page spread which is harder to understand and
it isn’t all as clear. This in a way undermines the audience of our
magazine because it suggests that they are less intellectual
than the audience for NME.
Main image includes all of the band in both double page
spreads. We decided to do this like the NME front cover
because it then implies that the questions answered was from
the whole band as a unit and not just 1 of the members
answering the question. Both photographs make it look as
though the band are ready to perform, both are set on stage
with the lighting and everything organised to a certain
atmosphere. The lighting in the NME double page
photograph suggests that the band are quite dull and are
serious about their work and nothing more. On the other
hand in our photograph the lighting is much more natural
which implies that they are less uptight and that they enjoy
doing what they do.
We decided to include a pull quote from the article also.
We did this because it pulls in the reader to the article. The
best and more intriguing quote was used for this because
it would give first impressions of the article as a whole.

3. Band index used in both to inform
the audience of what to expect
within the magazine. It also shows
order in the magazine,
chronological order.
We decided to go against
conventions of the NME
contents page here because
we added more photographs
of other features in the
magazine. We did this to
make the contents page look
more busy and give us the
opportunity to use a wider
range of camera angles.
Offers/giveaways to give
the audience opportunities
to win things.
Main article image
included to
highlight their part
played in the
magazine. We did
this because it
would make it all
clear and easy to
work out the main
stories of this
magazine.
This magazine has a introduction to the magazine as a whole where as ours doesn’t
have this. The result of this is that NME magazine looks and is more interesting but
ours is more functional and easy to work with and read.
In our magazine there is clear house style shown which is constant throughout these. Although in the NME magazine
although they use the same font throughout the magazines they actually use different colours of their font within the
magazine. I think this highlights the consistency in our magazine in comparison to the NME magazine.
In both magazines the page numbers and names
are in different fonts, one of which is the colour of
the house style which again shows consistency.