Researching Magazines

NME MagazineFront Cover NME's audience is

around 70% male and 30% female. Also more young people aged between 15-30 purchase this magazine.

The text is bright and bold, which is eye-catching and immediately draws in peoples attention.

The text and the pictures are all really bright bold colours and stand out.

The magazine uses big pictures on the front of well known music artists or icons to teenagers to draw people in.

The NME promotes the consumption of new indie music. Their audience is centred around 70% male. It focuses heavily on acts that are not yet commercially successful and aims to promote new music and artists.

NME Magazine Contents page

The contents page of NME has some of the features as the front cover. This helps to create the house style for the magazine.

NME uses the same colours for the contents page as the front cover (black, white and red and yellow.

They use the sans serif again which is easy to read and is conventional in magazines.

They use sub-headings so the reader can easily find the article they want to read, and see what its about before they turn to the page.

In NME it is divided into six parts News, Radar, Reviews, Live, Features and Plus

Page numbers are next to the articles as this helps the reader find what they are looking for.

In the middle of the page is a bit of information about a band or music venue which attracts the reader to the contents page

NME MagazineDouble Paged Spread

There’s one big picture that takes up half the page. It’s a live and spontaneous image.

The rest of the images are posed to give a mixture of live/posed images.

This is a pull quote from the article to pull the

reader in.

KERRANG MagazineFront Page

The main image has one person bigger than the others to show that he is the lead member of the band.

Using the colour red lets the reader know it’s the main story because it’s an alarming colour.

The band names are advertised down the bottom as they’re not the main story.

The image covers up the masthead as they expect people to automatically know what the magazine is called.

KERRANG MagazineContents Page

The contents page is split into catergoriess so people can find things easily.

Page numbers are next to the articles as this helps the reader find what they are looking for.

They use more pictures than NME magazine. They’re set out in rows with the article they’re related to make it more interesting.

This is editors paragraph that’s in the magazine every week.

NME uses the same colours for the contents page as the front cover (black, white and red and yellow.

KERRANG MagazineDouble Page Spread

There’s a pull quote which is quite exciting with the words ‘absolutely mental’ to make the reader want to read on.

This is a posed image and below is a live image.

Q MagazineFront Cover

‘World Exclusive’ Makes the reader think that they can’t read this interview anywhere else.

‘FREE CD!’ encourages the reader to buy the magazine because they’re getting something free.

The front cover keeps to the house style of the magazine which is red, white and black.

Q MagazineContents Page

The main image is posed and two of them are looking at the camera and two of them are looking away.

Monthly features are down the bottom so if readers enjoy them they can find them there.

It uses a colour scheme of red black and white which creates a brand identity.

It has the magazine logo before the contents

The pages are split into sections which allows the reader to skim through the text and only read the sections they’re interested in.