NME magazine has inspired the content and genre of the document author's magazine. Some key aspects that were drawn from NME include: - Focusing on indie/rock music genre coverage similarly to NME's long-standing coverage of that genre. - Applying NME's bold font and close-up artist photography style to the front cover design. - Drawing inspiration from NME's double-page interview spreads for interview layout and topics focused on single, female indie artists. - Aiming to achieve similar widespread popularity as NME through strong distribution and advertising techniques.

1. Research into similar
magazines.

2. NME background information:
• NME or The New Musical Express, was first
published in march 1952. Firstly starting off
as a musical newspaper before becoming a
magazine in the 1980’s.
• The unique logo has been used ever since
1978 and is wildly recognized because of
this.
• A website was launched in 1996. It is now the
world's biggest standalone music site, with
over 7 million users per month.

3. How does this relate to my magazine?
• The magazine has given me inspiration for the
genre and content of my own. The content varies
over time, from interviewing bands such as ‘The sex
pistols’ to more modern day bands such as
‘Kasabian’ However although the content will always
vary due to the ever-changing music industry, the
genre has always stayed the same and this is
indie/rock. This is something I would like to add to
my own work as my genre is indie, and this is
something I do not wish to change.

4. Front cover: • I have applied the front
covers of NME to my own
front cover by using the
bold block font and by
using a close up image of
the model for the front.
Even on this front cover, I
have used the same artist
Florence Welch. I like how
NME uses the same
colour scheme throughout,
for this months magazine ,
black and white and this is
something I would try
apply to my own work if I
were to produce another
magazine.

5. Inside pages:
• Due to the magazines having the same
genre, the bands included will be very similar
and thus, the inside pages may be as well.
This double page spread
interview of Lily Allen is quite
similar to mine, not the layout, but
the context of what is in the
interview. And this gave me
inspiration for my interview page.
Also the bands featured a similar
as both Lily Allen and Florence
and the Machine are the same
genre and both single female
artists.

6. • Overall, NME magazine is a very
successful multi national magazine
company which is very popular for
its target audience. I feel by using
strong distribution and advertising
techniques, ‘Indiscene’ could
become as popular as NME.