NME Analysis



This magazine is called "NME" and it shows connotations of violence and anti-sociable behavour. The visual layout of the front cover shows the main story to be in the middle of the page or near enough and it is displayed with a very large image highlighting it's importence, it then has 1 column on the left hand side of the page with 3 smaller images advertising or showing other "less important" stories than can be found inside this particular issue. The font on the front cover's style is very basic with nothing too fancy to help the target audience of teenagers and young men/woman to be able to understand it and read it much more clearly. The colour of the font is either white or a very dark goldish colour which again shows that is an easy magazine to pick up and read.

On the front cover, the image taken is a medium shot of two men (Miles Kane and Paul Weller) and they are posing very casually shwoing them to be relaxed and notifying that this magazine is a very "relaxing" one to read, the caption below the main headline says "It's about music, attitude and haircuts!" which then shows connotations of "attitudes" and "lazyiness". They are both wearing what appear to be some form of black suits with ties which displays the maturity and the age of the two men therefore showing the NME magazine to be for older readers too aswell as the younger readers it is usually assiciated with, they both also look very well kept which also represents the target audience or age group. This particular issue of NME is being promoted with the main headline, "Paul Weller and Miles Kane are The Mod Couple!", this suggests that theses two are of a new group or band setting out to become more recgonised within the music industry. Colours used on this front cover are very dull and not exactly of opitimising industry which therefore suggests that this new band/group are quite boring and/or dull in what they do with there music in particular.

The language that's used on this front cover is very infromative, with phrases of words like "The end of UK festivals" and "Your favourite bands interview their favourite musicians!". This shows how NME wan there readers to clearly know what they are reading and what it's exactly about.

The double page spread in this magazine about Paul Weller and Miles Kane displays a large image of the two men on the left side of the spread and part of the image displayed in the right side of the spread. They're standing with their backs against a wall showing them to be very chilled out and very relaxed, it's visual layout shows the two men on one half, chairs from the image in another half and a column in the bottom right hand corner of the page.