The feature article photograph for
this issue of NME includes all four members of the main band the magazine is
focusing on. Each member is tilting their head towards the camera apart the man
at the back, who appears to be facing away from the camera. This could suggest
that he is the least important member of the band as he is the only one looking
away. However, it could also suggest that he doesn’t seem to care that much,
creating a laid back attitude to the magazine and therefore the band. Although
as the other band members are looking towards the camera it suggests that they
have a more serious attitude towards the band and are serious about being ‘back
with a bang’. Each member in the feature article photograph is wearing a pair of
sunglasses suggesting importance and implying they have a high status. To
further add to the implication of importance, the photograph has been shot with
a slightly low angle shot creating the impression that you are slightly looking
up at them, as if they are more important than everyone else as they are looking
down at you. In the photograph they are not particularly wearing bold bright
colours so does not give out a loud noisy impression of hard-core rock music.
They are wearing subtle darker toned clothing that contrasts with the off-white
background that has been used; this therefore makes these colours stand out much
more without needing to be too colourful. Although the colours used are not
particularly bright, the contrast of the image is high and a good quality
photograph has been used so makes the cover stand out, attracting attention to
the magazine.
The white background and darker
colours of the clothes also make the plugs and puffs stand out as each piece of
text has either white writing, bright yellow or bright red. This makes them more
noticeable and eye catching. The use of these colours doesn’t overcrowd the
cover or make it too complicated to read. It makes the text a lot easier to
focus on as it is not right in your face so is purely drawing in attention to
which parts are most important. The fonts used on all the features on the cover
are a similar font but not the same size, implying that the most important
things are in a bigger font to attract attention.
The layout of the magazine is fairly
straight forward as although the masthead is the biggest font on the cover, it
has pretty much the same font used as the all other text and is not necessarily
the thing that stands out most suggesting that it is a well-known popular
magazine so doesn’t really need to be. The alliteration used in the cover line
‘Back with a bang’ emphasises the ‘bang’ suggesting that them coming back is
going to big like an explosion and stands out as a bomb would. The ‘back’ and
‘bang’ are the same font as the rest of the cover line but these two words are
made to stand out as a slightly bigger font has been used. To attract further
attention to this, the bold white colour has been used to be noticeable against
the rest of the text. The bold white text also emphasises the importance of the
main cover lines. The same bold white text has been used on ‘Look! Free Franz
Ferdinand CD’ to also express importance. The exclamation mark used on the
‘Look!’ is the only exclamation mark used throughout the whole cover showing its
importance and drawing in attention to the free CD. The puff ‘free’ and ‘CD’
however are not in white; they are in a bold red drawing the reader in to make
you buy the magazine and focusing in on the free CD. The puff ‘Plus’ is also in
red attracting the reader to the magazine and trying to persuade you to buy it
suggesting that it is filled with information that you could be the first one to
know if you buy it.
The use of the lights around the
arrows and in the reflection of the mans glasses suggest importance and high
status as they symbolise the lights that a big Hollywood movie star might have
around their dressing room mirrors. The overall tone of the magazine suggests a
serious tone towards being ‘back with a bang’ as if their comeback will be taken
seriously and will be big and important as if they are not just messing around
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