1. The magazine has a Band Index,
this links to the musical genre on
the magazine. Also, the list
shows the variety of bands inside
and by having this in red it
makes it stand out a lot, but also
matches the colour of NME
showing that it links as bands is
what NME is about.
Having the title of the magazine
is a reminder o the audience of
the magazine that they are
reading. It also says ‘This Week’
to show what is in the issue that
you have purchased.
The main image in the centre of
the page is 2 men called
Kasabian, we are told this in the
anchorage text. The image does
not look like a photo shoot or
that the artist were aware of the
image being taken. This suggests
that there will be behind the
scenes or backstage gossip inside
the magazine that you would not
usually find out if you don’t read
this magazine.
The main cover lines are used to
categorise the articles in the
magazine and different sections.
This makes it easier to read
which suits the target audience
as they are the type of people
that would like to find it easy to
read the magazine and not have
to read lots of information.
Coloured text is used again, for
page numbers. Bold text is
effectively used for titles of
articles inside and smaller text
describes the contents of each
article featured. This is effective
because you can identify what you
want to read easily.
Graphic features are used and
would appeal to the target
audience, these give the magazine
a more modern and youthful feel.
Older people would not expect to
find arrows in a magazine that
they would buy buy.
Advertising is used, and this would
likely appeal to the reader as they
would want to purchase the
magazine again after once reading
it. Also, the colours used in the
advert don’t fit in with the rest of
the colour scheme, making it
stand out. The colours that are
used suggest danger (yellow and
black). This does contradict the
text as it is a good thing to buy a
subscription to the magazine as
you save a lot of money (£45).