NME front cover analysis

Analysis of NME front cover.

This magazine;s target audience is both for male and female.

The colours are the same of red,white and some yellow. The layout of the magazine has been used since the first ever magazine was published. The fonts are very big and bold, also the layout is very front-on and in your face. With having the big picture of the striking band it places the writing smaller around it. The large photo of the band is used to focus on the lead singer-Beth Ditto as she is the bands main attraction. The pictures of her and her band mates look like to be all single pictures of one another which have been put onto the magazine with Beth Ditto mainly taking up all the space with her picture on top of both of the boys.

The picture looks professional and looks to be studio shot of each member this could show that the band have had their photos taken especially for this magazine. The clothes they wear are linked to the kind of music 'scene' which relates back to the magazines specific audience. With the main artist 'Beth Ditto' wearing black, the white and red text used 'The Gossip' and 'sex,skins and standing in the way of control' really stands out and makes it easy to read.

This layout is very stereotypical of NME as it is completley aimed at this type of audience, some magazine front covers of NME have not kept to the house style and have gone off course with how they want there magazine to look to the rest.