NME Cover Analysis
NME Cover Analysis
The magazine NME, abbreviation for New Music Express, was published by IPC media and launched in 1996 and targets a young adult audience, from the ages of 17 to 23.
This magazine shows a professional but messy rock look which is shown by the picture, it uses a majority of the page as it’s the main image and consists of Lilly Allen with an old shirt and pale look, which gives an edgy messed look for the magazine. The professional parts of this front cover are the banners and main masthead and logo. The picture overlaps the NME logo but as it’s a well known magazine the reader doesn’t need to see the whole title to know what magazine it is. The typeface for the magazine changes using displacement of the characters at angles. Such as “LILLY ALLEN TAKES ON THE WORLD” and the quote given by her above, gives a cut out pasted effect and is used in other issues of the NME magazine. The quote given by her has affected the way the quote is layed out, showing distress on the font and how it’s positioned. The colour scheme for the front cover is mostly red, white and black, these three colours are used commonly in rock music and is shown on this magazine in font, background and clothing on the main image. There are two other images on the front cover that highlight some of the main articles included in the magazine, such as David Bowie in the top right, with an important topic, and a picture in the top left of an artist. There are also two banners, the top one indicates there are new tunes from a band, and the bottom banner to show what other bands are included inside. The magazine uses a lot of capital letters to shout out
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