2) NME Magzine

The NME music magazine focusses on the mainstream music of Britain, being Indie and and Rock. The title is big, bold and loud. Using red gives the title more attention therefore attracting thew audience to the title. With a band members hair just covering the edge of the title it gives it a sense of house-style by overlapping the title, a common trait in the genetic conventions of a music magazine. The white lining of the title gives it extra atractiveness and makes it jump out of the page following the plain black background. The black and white colourway is a resemblence of rock, showing a darkness about their music genre and gives it a plain, simplistic vibe, resembling the music genre. The split page idea gives the audience two deterances from the title, the main picture and the top half focussing on a special feature edition on "the worlds greatest rock festival". This top-half sections layout is crammed into a small space, giving it a music poster type theme. As its advertising the festivals it works well as it follows its functions. The bands are listed toghether down the side and a side picture of the event can be seen. The Reading and Leeds festival subtitles have red fuzz around them making them stand out and also is their own logo for the event. The focus then moves onto the main pictures of the page, with a white background for simplicity, the page is torn into three. Each showing the lead singer of The Killers, an american rock band. The subtitle reads "I'm having a personality crisis right now...", the readers now know why the page has been torn into three, each with a picture of the same person acting in wierd situations. The title "The Killers" is showed below the lead singers head, obviously the face is the main attraction as a face is recognisable. Its big, bold, white title stands larger than the magazine title itself and runs through the middle of the page. This also gives it a music festival poster by portraying them as the "headliners" if it were. The "V-festival" logo can be seen in the bottom left corner and is sectioned off by a running white strip, using red it follows suit to the magazine colour codes and again makes it stand out. Another band name, "The Verve" is used in red also amongst a white background to stand it out as another subtitle and main feature of the magazine. From the magazine research on music magazines its easy to see that music stars/bands are listed instead of the feature topic so that readers recognise if their favourite bands are in the magazine. This is used as its simplistic and tones down the front cover, giving off more attraction to the main focus, the cover and title.