I have decided to analyse a NME music magazine. I will talk about the front cover. The contents page, and the double page

spread.

Aymen Yassin Soliman

• On the front cover of the NME magazine it shows Simon Cowell. He takes up half of the front cover, this makes him look powerful and dominant. He’s known to be a powerful man through his TV show X Factor , he’s also very well known from this show, so who ever passes this magazine will instantly notice it. He's grinning and seems to be looking right at you. This catches eyes making them wonder why he's looking so cunning, tempting costumers to read the magazine.

•The masthead has a nice caption to it “MASSIVE CHRISTMAS DOUBLE ISSUE”. This shows it’s a Christmas special and it involves two issues in the magazine instead of one.

•The title is in its original red colour. It also has some snow on top of the writing this shows its a Christmas addition and it’s good eye candy.

•They use good sense of humour in big white writing right next to Simon Cowell. “ THE GRINCH SPEAKS”. The Grinch is known to be a Christmas horror. This implies that Simon Cowell is this Christmas horror as he is known to be a horror of a judge in X Factor. This is also good eye candy as not a lot of people like Simon Cowell so they may feel they need to buy this magazine as they will be expecting bad to be said about him.

•They use a good way to advertise by putting the information in bobbles. This is good as its Christmas so using bobbles suits the theme very well.

•There’s a barcode on the bottom right showing the price of the magazine.

•On the bottom left it shows they are giving away 6 free posters. This is a good way to grab attention as customers will feel like they are getting their moneys worth.

•This NME music magazine includes a contents page, a page which is very useful to readers who would like to quickly find out what information will be included throughout the magazine. Also if a reader would like to read just a certain part of the magazine, a contents page is a good reference to find a quick page number of where the information they want is located.

•The Pages shown on the left side of the contents page is done in a red colour showing the reader important information. The use of colour is very similar ( Red and white ) as it is the main NME theme.

•Their is a picture in the middle of the page. Along with some information about what the story is about. The image and article relate to eachother. The title is in a big black bold font making it impossible to miss

•There’s a NME magazine advertisement on the bottom left. This is done to promote their selves. They don't need to pay as its their own company that is being advertised.

•The background is white so the readers attention is just on the text and the picture.

•The picture of Lily Allen covers the whole of the right hand side of the page, leaving the left page for all of the text. This makes Lily Allen look very dominant and powerful as she takes up half the page on a double page spread.

•Lily Allen’s clothes match the colour scheme oh NMEs theme colour (Red) her shirt shows masculinity and that she is more masculine than any normal feminine, this gives the impression that she is boss. She is looking directly at the reader showing that she’s strong and demanding attention.

•The title of the double spread sheet is very appealing. “People think I'm an attention seeker, but I'm just honest” I spoke about her body language being strong and demanding attention. This adds some humour as she says she isn’t attention seeking while her body language says she is. The font of the title is very big and is very unusual font. This goes back to the ‘attention seeking’ as the title is definitely seeking customers attention.

• Four columns of text are used, and seems to be in a small and simple font (most probably italic.)

That's the end of my presentation thank you for

listening.