NME - Front Cover

NME

     Front Cover

Photography

The magazine uses images of several pictures, which are all studio shots. This creates intamacy with the audience, and creates a connection, as all the people featured are looking out towards the reader. The photographs used are all related to the main feature, which allows for this to be the main focus. The photographs have been edited in that they are layered over one another, this again links to the main feature in that they ordered in the "cool list".

Colour Scheme

The colour scheme here is black, white and orange. The black and white is used majorly over many magazines, so this could allow the reader to feel connected to the magazine straightaway, but by using a different colour - orange - it is allowing the front cover to stand out compared to the other magazines. Also by using a bright colour, it is allowing the reader to be attracted to the magazine, such as passing audiences who would not normally look a the magazine, and it also appeals to it target audience, which is quite a young audience.

Fonts

There is a continutiy use of san serif fonts throughout the front cover, which allows familiarity. The use of curled writing on "Who's in? Who's out?" is appropriate for the reader, as this shows the reader is young and interested in "cool" people and not necessarily as intreseted in the music. Using the same fonts throughout the rest of the magazine also shows that this particular feature is the main part of the magazine, and by using the same fonts for the rest shows that they are all equal in importance.

Writing Style

The writing is very breif, with very basic in terms of depth of information. The writing style is also quite demanding, such as the "cool list", it is implying that their opinion is fact and that the people featured are "cool". The magazine uses declaratives alongside this on the front cover, it uses simple statemants of what is to come, along with rhetorical question in order to attract the reader, and make them want to continue in reading.

Text/Picture Ratio

The ratio of text/picture is around 1:2, with the images being the dominant force. This again appeals to the target audience, as younger audiences prefer to look at images, than read large amount of texts. The ratio is also at this place as it is a front cover, and not alot of text is usually placed among a front cover; the images are the usual attraction that reel the reader in.

Overall

Overall the magazine uses breif and basic writing along side pictures in order to appeal to the target audience. The bright colour scheme allows the magazine to stand out and to also be appropriate for the target audience at the same time, with fonts additionally representing the target audience well.