The NME music magazine front cover really demonstrates NME’s attitude to music; very free, fun and up-to-date. They show this especially with this issues main picture of Dizzee Rascal; looking rather ‘fun-filled’ and free.

The pull quote, “I’m spreading joy around the world, man!” is definitely a great way to pull in a huge audience, through the happiness in which is presented. A good pull quote is definitely something I will use in my magazine.

The whole front cover is consumed by Dizzee Rascal, implying that he is definitely the biggest and main article is this issue. Even his name stands out, mainly due to the size and style of the font used. This is definitely a good idea to attract attention to the magazine

The huge masthead, ‘NME’ really stands out from the rest of the front cover and is really in your face and eye-catching. Again another feature I’ll use when producing my magazine.

The use of big bold cover lines is also a really good and attractive feature for a front cover, especially being that that cover lines are there to attract the readers with a good base of articles within the magazine.

The use of a skyline to emphasise that there is some kind of exclusive in the magazine that will interest certain, if not all readers, because you would expect NME readers to be interested in gig listings and making an exclusive for this specific interest is a huge selling point.

A significant amount of these features have been placed in the left third of the magazine, for good selling points.

NME Front Cover Analysis

The NME contents page follow really well from the style of the front cover. With the same kind of visuals and keeping the same text.

Although the contents page looks rather more organised and clearer than what the front cover is.

The editor’s letter is made to be the first thing you look at as it takes up pretty much half of the page, and the image and the drop cap really show of the letter off. The letter also gives and impression that the editor cares about the audience.

Another good feature and marketing scheme is the advertisement to subscribe to their magazine.

NME Contents Page Analysis

NME double page spread on Dizzee Rascal comes across very in your face with the colours and presentation. The title of the article is a pun on the well known phase ‘from rags to riches‘. This means to have succeded from a poor environment into fame and fortune. As this reads ‘from rags to riches‘ Dizzee, the the article is no doubt talking about his journey from the home life he used to have as a kid to the fame and stardom he now holds. The full page image of Dizzee supports this and brings the two ways of life into one, the cloths he is wearing and his appearance shows the state he is in now with his money yet he is committing a crime and looks pretty sneaky doing so. This may also signal that the way he was brought up and the way he lived life as a teen are not lost or forgotten due to how famous he is now.The background of the article is paint splatterd to lookto be done by a spray can.Images have also been used to separate the text so it doesn’t seem to long and have been given captions in realtion to the article content. A pull quote has also been used which also highlights the main subject of the article as Dizzee can’t believe this has come this far.The whole style of the magazine seems more commercial to maybe attract a younger audience.

NME Double Page Spread Analysis