NME Magazine is a working class magazine, aimed at a male
audience at around the ages of 14 to 25 years old.
As they do in every issue of their magazine, they make a
clear connection towards the front cover and the contents page as it has photos
of the two different issues in the centre of the contents page to draw your
attention to it. The magazines have a shadowing effect underneath to make them
stand out and for them to look like their actual magazines on a surface. The
two magazines featured on the contents page can be recognized as a pair as they
have the same new music banner, use similar colours and have an alike layout
with the text and the band.
The magazine tends to have a template contents magazine, as
do many magazines as they want to be seen as professional and consistent to
their reader to give a good impression, even before they actually start reading
the magazine as this will give a further impression to what the rest of the
content in the magazine is like. This template tends to feature many square
photos, with the page number in a white box in a corner of the picture along
with a pulled quote and a few lines from the article in a columned position.
The page also has a white border around the pictures and a lot of white space
to make the magazine look more sophisticated and less cluttered while still having
a full contents page and looking like a specialized music magazine. They use
many different fonts on the contents page which could be as their trying to
show the different articles in the magazine and they can show the different
people talking by having their own font.
The NME contents page does have a newspaper-look to it,
which is because they want to show that they are a serious magazine wanting to
report on musicians and bands that they will be interested in which is more
likely to attract an older audience than if they used a more teenager-aimed
page style. The colours used also add to this look with it being in black and
white and the lettering having san-serifs. Although NME are aimed a mostly
working class male audience,
they
do try an appeal to the middle class, female audience by replicating the style
of a newspaper and showing how informative it is. The ‘PLUS’ in bold is there
to show the reader how much more news they couldn’t fit on the contents page to
entice them to buy it as well as helping them with the page numbers underneath
so they can find what they want to read quickly.
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