Band included on front cover. Haven’t just used main member but all of the band. This is to represent the band as being all one and that it isn’t just about 1 person in the band. Name/title of

magazine highlighted and bold. Stands out from the rest of the magazine. This is so that the magazine can be spotted and the fans of the magazine can always put the name to the magazine.

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Give aways used in both magazines. This would reel in the attention of the audience because they would purchase the magazine to get these give aways.

Yellow was used for the title and anchorage in the NME magazine and we also decided to use this colour. This is because it connotes liveliness and activity. It is a loud colour which would shout out to the audience and get their attention.

The layout of each interview is varied. In our magazine the questions and answers are clearly separated, this would make it easier for the readers to read and understand in comparison to the NME double page spread which is harder to understand and it isn’t all as clear. This in a way undermines the audience of our magazine because it suggests that they are less intellectual than the audience for NME.

Main image includes all of the band in both double page spreads. We decided to do this like the NME front cover because it then implies that the questions answered was from the whole band as a unit and not just 1 of the members answering the question. Both photographs make it look as though the band are ready to perform, both are set on stage with the lighting and everything organised to a certain atmosphere. The lighting in the NME double page photograph suggests that the band are quite dull and are serious about their work and nothing more. On the other hand in our photograph the lighting is much more natural which implies that they are less uptight and that they enjoy doing what they do.

We decided to include a pull quote from the article also. We did this because it pulls in the reader to the article. The best and more intriguing quote was used for this because it would give first impressions of the article as a whole.

Band index used in both to inform the audience of what to expect within the magazine. It also shows order in the magazine, chronological order.

We decided to go against conventions of the NME contents page here because we added more photographs of other features in the magazine. We did this to make the contents page look more busy and give us the opportunity to use a wider range of camera angles.

Offers/giveaways to give the audience opportunities to win things.

Main article image included to highlight their part played in the magazine. We did this because it would make it all clear and easy to work out the main stories of this magazine.

This magazine has a introduction to the magazine as a whole where as ours doesn’t have this. The result of this is that NME magazine looks and is more interesting but ours is more functional and easy to work with and read.

In our magazine there is clear house style shown which is constant throughout these. Although in the NME magazine although they use the same font throughout the magazines they actually use different colours of their font within the magazine. I think this highlights the consistency in our magazine in comparison to the NME magazine.

In both magazines the page numbers and names are in different fonts, one of which is the colour of the house style which again shows consistency.