First Inspirations As NME is my favourite music magazine, I wanted my magazine to have roughly the same layout and colour scheme. The main colours that are used on the front cover are red and yellow, so I defiantly wanted to use them for either the Cover line or explanatory text. They are bright colours and easily grab your attention.

My Target audience will be similar to NME, which is 17 – 25 year olds. More male than female, but still attracting a female audience

Pictures

When looking through NME and on their website I found some pictures that I really liked. I liked the way that they were not straight poses looking towards the camera on an obvious set. This makes the photographs look more like documentary photography.

Continuing, these pictures are much less posed then magazine like Vouge and Ok for example. There is more personality in them as it looks like the photographer is catching a more natural moment in a shot. I think they make better and more interesting images.

These are more famous images from NME magazine. What I think makes these images attract people and want to read the magazine is because the attitude they portray in these images. Most magazines wouldn’t have someone on the front page smoking, or swearing, but NME do that. They don’t follow the conventions. These images also make you feel as if you are getting to the see the real side of these music icons.

For example, readers and fans wouldn’t think they were seeing the real Pete Doherty if you had he was very smartly dressed and doing poses looking straight into the camera.

Attitude portrays Dizzie Rascals music

After deciding I wanted to follow NMEs style in photography, I thought about documentary type photography, which then automatically made me think of polaroids, capturing a moment quickly.

I then found this image and thought it was really interesting and thought maybe I could do something similar to it for my double page spread.

I also want to create a coverline similar to the ones used in NME as they also attract the viewer, letting them know that tickets are available to be won, and that free posters are also available. They also show you smaller images of the posters that are in the magazine. To make my magazine look as professional as possible I will try and include cover lines similar to these with pictures to make it seem more appealing to my target audience.