Magazine Front Cover Analysis

NME is a music magazine, it will have inside music, posters and much more, this will attract the readers because there are loads of things in this magazine, there are posters that you can pull out, so that is an advantage because in some magazines you have to rip out the posters and the magazine always goes messy. The main image is going to be inside the magazine talking about the Reading and Leeds festival. Also there will be party coverage’s in the magazine so this will attract the readers. The target audience is 15+ aswell in this magazine because it has old new music so all age genres can read this magazine, but I think teenagers will read it more because they usually have new bands as the main image. The audiences will be interested in the main image and the bands that are going to be in the magazine I think this main image is going to attract the reader’s because they are a young band and loads of teenagers like them.
The mode of address the main image is getting is a direct mode of address because the main image is looking straight forward at the reader, and their facial expressions look very angry and it looks like they are telling the reader to come and get them, to read their article, so I think they want a personal relationship with the audience.
The scissor sisters are on the front cover because in the magazine they are going to talk about the Reading and Leeds festival, which attracts the reader because this is such a big festival that people are going to want to read it to see what the festival was like. The overall message the main image is trying to give to the audience is that you should come and read this article it is good, you can see this by their facial expressions.
There are a few other bands that are represented in this magazine, such as The Streets, they are represented; it is telling us that The Streets are going opera. There are also some buzz words which stand out like extra, which is telling us that there is an extra in the magazine and it is the poster pull out page, I think this will be an advantage for the reader because the magazine won’t get messy.
The title is very attractive aswell because it is bold and bright and it really stands out, the colour is red with a white outline and a black background so I think this really stands out from the rest of the magazine because the magazine is white and red and it looks so much different from the logo. There is not a slogan which I think is a disadvantage because I think it will attract more readers if they say something like ‘the best music magazine in the world’ then it would attract more readers because they think it I the best magazine in the world. The colours that are used are red, white, black and blue. I think that these colours are used really well in this magazine because they are bold, bright colours and are used in the right ways, for example the blue is used for the buzz words and some of the not so important stories and this makes the blue stand out because it is not used so much.
The strategies that the magazine uses to make the reader be attracted to the audience is bold and clear writing, the colours have to be bold and clear.