Magazine analysis NME- front cover

This is a NME magazine cover, the target audience for NME is mid to late teens. On the front of this cover is a very famous artist called lilly allen. She is always in the public eye and often features on the front of tabloid papers and magazines, so the large photo of her on the cover will be very good for sales as she will appeal to a very large audience as shes so famous. She will appeal to both rock interested audience and people who arent into rock music. Her photo dominates whole whole cover with a mid long shot of her face, her head overlaps on top of the NME logo at the top, this shows the importance of the interview and gives the impression she is a domminant strong female. Her facial expression is plain and serious looking, this goes along with the rock/indie look that NME often portray. The plain white background matches her pale skin and gives her a gothic look. The main title that says 'LILY ALLEN TAKES ON THE WORLD' is in the style of cut out letters from a news paper, in a bold font surrounded by a black border, this gives it a emo messy look that matches what shes wearing and the facial expression shes pulling. Her red shirt is messy and lose this matches her style of her music and her lifestyle. The word choice of this shows shes very succsessfull and important so readers should read the issue and find out what shes doing and may indicate to the reader she has new plans for more music coming out.

The is a bright yellow circle pug in the bottom right hand corner, it has additional information about whats in the magazine, the information is expanded on the contense page. Across the top of the page is a bold black strip that says 'NEW MONKEYS TUNES' with a small photo of a member of the band, this is in a big bold yellow font and this will stand out to the potential byer as something else featured in the magazine and will perswade them to buy the magazine even more. The font used thoughtout the whole front cover is a bold straight font with flat lines, this gives the magazine a strong serious look and adds to masculinity of the magazine.

Double page spread-

This is the double page spread, the theme of the cut out messy style of the letters continues onto this page with the main title, giving it continuity this adds to the house style of the magazine so it can be easily recondised by the reader. The main title is slanted across the two pages in a wonky uneven look, this makes it look messy and stylish this links in with what lily is wearing. The quote they have used as the title has been cut out of what lily said to make it look more affective, this will attract the reader even more. the style of the page matches whats on the front cover showing clearly that this is the interview advertised on the front cover. The word choice of 'im just honest' engaes the reader and it sounds like the interview is aimed spesificly at them, its in a more chatty casual conforastion way rather than a formal interview.

There is a large photo of lily allen taking up the whole page, this again shows her dominance in this issue, shes leaning forward with her hands on her hips shows shes a strong female, this links in with the style of the title. Her serious expression may mean that the magazine is also serious about giving good music reviews to the customer. Her black hair stands out against the bright white background and matches the black and white font, this adds to the gruge rock look the magazine often potrays.The colloms are split into 4 small sections underneath the large title, this gives it a neat look.

The page numbers on the double page spread are small and in the bottom corners of the magzine, this doesnt ruin the look of the spread but at the same time effectively allows the reader to find what page they want. On the top right hand corner there is the NME website, this is good for the magazine as on every page it has this. This lets the reader know there is a website about the magazine, notifying fans they can view there site if they like the magazine.
Contents page

This is the contense page from the same issue, the porpous of the contense page is to show what else is on the magazine other than the main lily allen interview and it shows you what page number to find it on. The 'end of astoria' article was also mentioned on the front cover in a bright yellow pug this shows continuity, it wasn't covered as much as lily allen on the front cover so it explains more on the contense page, there is a large photo of the venue 'astoria' and this takes up most of the page this shows that this article is also very important and is a main feature.

Across the top of the contense page there is a large band that has the title 'NME THIS WEEK' this is obvious that this page will tell you what to expect in this issue, and throughout the page the colours red and black are used enthisising the house style as the title on the front page is in those colours aswell. on the far left side there is a list in a small red font of the other bands featured in this issue, this is used on every issue of NME and regular readers will look at this to see what else is featured. At the bottom of the page there is a large black box that stands out from the all white background giving additional information about a special offer saying that you will save money if you subscribe monthly to the magazine, this is effective becuase its in a large box with bold yellow and white fonts

On the right side of the page there is a long black strip that has the rest of the features and interviews in the magazine mentioned. They are in a small easy to read list that the reader can easily find as they are split up with bold black blocks with white titles in them seperating the 'interviews' from the 'reviews' etc, this helps the reader find spesificly what there looking for saving them from searching though the whole magazine.