Music magazine annotations.

Music magazine cover 3

This magazine is of a similar style to the last. The front cover of the magazine has a large masthead that is hidden by part of the main image. The magazine is very bright and colourful, using the colours red, white and yellow. The masthead is simple red capital letters, which catches the eye of the reader. The main image only has one person in it, which i think works well. the intended target audience for this magazine may like this style better, as the magazine is more spacious. The woman on the cover appears to be looking at the reader which would form a connection between the magazine and the audience.

There is hardly any empty space on the magazine and the page has been filled well so that the audience will not have to much to look at and get bored easily. You can still see the white background, which is important to show the reader the simplicity of the magazine. This may draw the reader in as you only have one image to look at and many sell lines. This helps the reader understand the magazine, as it has large, visible text. This tells us that you can easily understand what the magazine has to offer. It is also easily constructed which shows this magazine is calmer than the first. This means the audience reading the magazine might be calmer and more relaxed than the audience to the first magazine. This cover itself makes it easier to relate to as it is simple to look at meaning that the magazine is not bombarded with useless information. The way the cover is laid out helps show us that simple does not always mean boring.

The main audience should be people who like listening to different types of music as the magazine writes about all styles and genre's. This magazine should also inform the reader on what their favourite band likes to do, eat and even say. The red background behind the masthead NME attracts many people because the colour red is the first colour that the eyes see. The masthead blends in with the background as it is red also. I think this is useful as it does not completely scream at the audience and force them into reading everything.

The magazine has only two smaller images. I think this is because they want to show that the magazine has more than one thing to offer the reader but also wants to keep the idea of the magazine cover looking simple and easy to read.

I like how many of the images and some of the text appear to be coming off the page. This may be a good idea to use in my magazine as i think that it could become useful to draw the readers in before they even open the magazine. .

Some thing that i have noticed about all these magazines is that none have a visible web site to visit for more information. I might include one on my magazine but this may not be what a normal music magazine will have on it.