NME Magazine KERRANG Magazine

The NME magazine is around £2.20, it come out weekly. Its target audience is from about 15years plus. Music genre is

rock.

FACTSType/focus of magazine – Rock Publishing Company – IPC MediaEditor’s name – Mike WilliamsDate of First publication – 7th March 1952Price - £2.40 How/Where can readers get it? – iPad, Laptop, Computer, Delivered to you (subscription), Retail shop.

Freebie

Colour scheme, red/green/black

Barcode situated at the bottom

Date/Price

Uses quotes to attract attention

Text surrounds the face of the person on the front

Image overlaps title of magazine

The red text attracts attention

The black contrasts against the white background

Variety of font sizes

Large text ‘captivating’

Image relates to one of the topics of the magazine “I DON’T GIVE A SH*T ABOUT A ROYAL WEDDING” (the bouquet of flowers)

Other features to attract you too the magazine

The picture placed on one page automatically being the focus

Black eyes and shabby hair create the rock/punk look

Messy letters make it look scruffy and uneven makes it less formal

Quote takes up half page

Drop capital letter

Black and white contrast each other

Small paragraph, nutshellingthe writing below it

floating quote is enlarged and instantly draws readers into the article

Text wraps around the image, avoiding the image

Quote overlaps her arm but not face

Her name is highlighted in bubble writing

Text is extra small in comparison to the large image and floating quote

Colours contrast(numbers and text)

Uses block titles to separate the different types of articles

Advertisement

Bold contrasting titles

Main contents in one list

Page numbers easily visible in red

Picture being the main attraction

Title more towards the right

Date beneath title

Introductionary paragraph

Make the magazine look sophisticated

Drop capital

Weird subtitle

The KERRANG Magazine is out weekly, it is around £2.20 and

its music genre is rock, its target audience from around

16years plus.

FACTSType/focus of magazine – Rock Publishing Company – Bauer Media GroupEditor’s name – James McMahonDate of First publication – 6th June 1981Price - £2.20How/Where can readers get it? –iPad, Laptop, Computer, Delivered to you (subscription), Retail shop.

Picture overlapping heading

Sneak preview of freebie

Pink stands out from other dull colours

Colour theme, pink, yellow, black and white

Eye contact with buyer

Barcode at the bottom

Words overlapping image but not face

7x Sub headings

All text in capitals

Pictures overlapping each other, collage effect

Picture acting as a background

Issue number and date

Sub headings, are bolded with the contrasting colours

Small paragraph to introduce this magazine issue

Main picture, covering half the page

Yellow contrasts hugely against black

Page numbers highlighted in red

Advertisement

Info about who made certain stuff

Images to break up the listBold topic heading then small brief sentence

Magazine title

Image is landscapeImage takes up 3 quarters of a page4 colour scheme, blue, red black and white Looking in

2 different directions

Image is medium close up

The picture is very high contrast meaning the person at the front has a very vibrant attracting jacket

Besides the colour scheme, because of the high contrast picture, we mainly see yellow blue and red

Black paragraph background means it is clearly readable behind the white writing

Logo

Quote is highlighted, in red and in italics

Red lines divide the different writing types. The article, then an advert,

then small print.

Image is the main attraction on the page

Image is landscape