NME Front Cover Analysis.

There is a variety of different language used on the front cover of this NME magazine. There is a variety of different written language on the splash. Like the masthead for instance, NME is made to stand out as it is in red font with a white outline. This just denotates the title, new musical express. However it does connotate an other meaning. NME sounds like enemy, and seems to portray the view that the magazine is the enemy of mainstream 'popular' music. Other written language such as the main story preview right of centre on thesplash is also made to stand out from the image behind it. 'The bleeding heart of...' is written in a scrawley type of font, that is rough and messy. This connotates the type of audience that read the magazine are in the majority teenagers and other young adults, who are seen by other sections of society as scruffy, and perhaps looked down on.

There is also another piece of media language in the form of a picture. This image takes the size of almost the whole splash. This denotates an image of Pete Doherty who is an artist, well known in the media for his drug taking habits and his song writing ability. This image connotates the the audience type, as Pete Doherty is seen as i big figure in the world of alternative music. He has also been in the media for his countless drug taking and his imprisonment. This picture could be seen to show in one person how the youth of today is seen by other people. Also, the prejudice people perhaps think of young people. The fact that most people have seen Pete Doherty in the media for bad reasons, they believe that all people who follow the lifestyle that goes along with the magazine may turn out like him.The ideology of this magazine is about young adults and a particular lifestyle choice, the lifestyle choice for instance that is summed up by the image on the splash of this magazine.

The student type of lifestyle, going to gigs, drinking and drugs. The scruffy approach taken as a style by many who read the magazine. Another aspect of this is obviously the music taste, the fact that these people prefare alternative music that is'nt mainstream.The audience for this magazine would generally be for people who like alternative types of music and don't buy into the mainstream music scene.

CONVENTIONS OF A MUSIC MAGAZINE

Conventions of music magazines front cover....

-masthead

- subtitles

-main picture that usually takes up the whole page

-smaller pictures that tell you about other things that are in the magazine

-small other captions that accompany the smaller pictures

Conventions of a music magazine contents page....

- main picture(s) that show the main articles

- captions to the pictures

- all of the other articles and pages of the magazine numbered

- free extras advertised. e.g posters that are given away free with the magazine

Conventions of a music magazine double page spread....

- a masthead

- a picture or pictures

- a main article

- it is convention that in most magazines the picture is on one side and the main body of writing is on the other side

- important quotes are highlighted and pulled out of the main article and written again, often in a larger font.

LIIAR

L- The language, and the use of words, texts and picture.

I- Institution, like ITV or the BBC

I- Ideology, the ideas that go into the magazine or media product.

A- Audience, the people targeted by the companies making the media product.
Anyone who uses the product.

R- Representation, what the components of a media product represent e.g a picture on a magazine cover.

The brief for the music magazine task

Do the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images.

FINISHED FINAL MOCK UP OF CONTENTS PAGE

FINISHED FINAL FRONT COVER

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Pretty happy with it, but my lack of skill on photoshop shows alot.

haha.

picture

This is the picture i am going to use for the front cover of my magazine.

front cover template

This is my mock up of my front cover. I have used a template of a college magazine that i have posted on a previous post. Using that template i put together my own template with a few minor changes, that i felt needed to be added.

LIIAR

L- The language, and the use of words, texts and picture.


I- Institution, like ITV or the BBC



I- Ideology, the ideas that go into the magazine or media product.



A- Audience, the people targeted by the companies making the media product.
Anyone who uses the product.

R- Representation, what the components of a media product represent e.g a picture on a
magazine cover.

Planning Start.

I aim to create a college magazineon the basis of this template, as this is a template from a site that creates college magzines for colleges in te style of one of their templates.
So i have chosen this one to base my magazine on.

Audiences

In marketing, a target audience, or target group is the primary group of people that something, usually an advertising campaign, is aimed at appealing to. A target audience can be people of a certain age group, gender, marital status, etc

This definition is used in media in this case of magazines, becasue each magazine needs a target audience so that it can sell copies.
For instance, the NME magazine is targeted at audiences, like (16-25) as there are articles and infomation that interests them like certain gigs etc.
In many ways magazines like the NME target a few different audiences, as readers of magazines are all different and some people read a certain magazine for a different reason than another person would read the magazine.

Conventions of a contents page

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A contents page is the page that tells the readers were everything is inside the magazine. It has the page numbers next to the things that can be found. It is usual to have small sections of text briefly telling the readers more about the pages. This is also sometimes accompanied by other small pictures.

NME magazine.....front cover analysis

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/pictures/thumb/t/k/x/NME1Sepcover_1_.jpg

This is the NME magazine and this is can be compared to the college magazine, as it has all of the same conventional things, for instance. The title, the subtitles of what is in the magazine, a picture of what is expected to be in the magazine. The overall first view of the magazine to attract the correct audience.

This edition of the NME magazine has the main focus of the magzine on the Leeds/Reading festival, this is made clear with the Reading and Leeds festival written in the centre of the front cover. The full-page picture also backs this up, as it is a picture of the festival 2007, with the main focus of the picture being The Enemy one of the up and coming bands of that time.
The name of the magazine NME, is written at the top in bold red letters with the date in small black font underneath it. Alongside this there is a few small pictures with borders round telling the reader about posters that are inside the magazine, which may interest the readr more, and persuade them to buy the magazine.
Finally at the very bottom of the front cover, there are smaller pictures with borders round show some of the other things that are inside the magazine that may interest the reader. They hae their own little sub-titles that tell the reader what they are about aswell.

college magazine template

www.magazine-templates.com/images/shop/college/college-01-300.jpg

This is a picture of a college magazine template. It has all the conventions of a typical magazine.

• A title



• Sub-titles of what is inside it



• A picture on the front (relevant to whats inside it)

The languge used on this front cover is relevent to whats inside and to the audience the magazine is produced for.

The audience for this magazine are the students at the college which this magazine is produced for.

Conventions of a school magazine
order - numerically ordered, easy to find what reader wants
informs of contents - tells audience what article's what
headings - used to attract attention of readers
images - used to stop it being boring, also catch readers eye a visual description of what article contains
breif descriptions - breif overveiw of what the article contains
colours - for clarity and attention seeking

Coventions of a college magazine
title - its in the same place and the same font as a re-occurence, this is a focal point in the magazine as it informs the audience of what the magazine contains.
article related picture
subtitles
date
layout

The Brief

The breif...

Preliminary excersize : using DTP and n image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photgraph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriatly laid-out text and a masthead. Additonallyyou must produce a mock-up of the layout of the content page to demonstrate thier grasp of DTP.

Main task...

the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. all images and texts used must be original, produced by you - minimum of 4 images.

Presentation of Work...

the presentation of the reasearch, planning and evaluation can take the form of any one, or combination of two or more, of the following...
A presentation using slideshow sofware such as powerpoint
a blog
a podcast