1. Magazine name is in bold text and
bright pink to make it stand out. The
magazine logo is always in the same
place with the same text. NME
stands for “new musical express”
The colours on the magazine match.
There is a clear colour theme, this
makes the magazine cover more eye
catching. Also what it shows is that the
band are a part of the magazine and
have some form of link.
The main attraction to this issue of
the magazine, ‘foals’, is written in
pink and large text in capital letters
to capture the eye of the audience.
The images and text link as the picture on the front
is of the band foals and the biggest piece of text on
the page is the word “foals”. There is a clear link
from the text to the image.
In NME magazine many of the bands
that they feature tend to be young and
of both genders. This shows that they
try to appeal to younger people as the
music they promote is modern.
The creators of NME magazine is IPC
media. This company makes many
magazines. This company mainly targets
the indie, rock and folk musical genres
rather then pop, punk or metal.
IPC Media also sells many yachting
magazines, this shows that they do have a
variety in what they own/make. They
don’t only work in the music industry.
From this cover we can see that NME
must like the band foals and the music
hey produce. We can see this as they
have decided to put them on a special
edition magazine so they must value the
band.

2. The title of the magazine ‘Kerrang’ is
easily viewable and distinct to the
viewer. It has a shattered theme in it
that we can see is from a rock
background as in rock was a bit
about smashing things up which we
can see is reflected in the title of the
magazine.
The main attraction of this issue is
Black Sabbath and a world exclusive
interview with them as they are
coming up to a big event.
We can see that the magazine is
trying to attract customers to buy
the magazine by giving away a free
poster.
They also feature other bands in the
magazine which are shown in
smaller images on the front cover to
show the reader.
The magazine also tries to gain the
attention of more customers by
adding in more posters of a different
band, this will gain the more sales as
they can vary the amount of fans
they appeal to.

3. Slash fits in with the magazine
theme as the magazine is the rolling
stone which is a rock magazine. He
fits in because he is a rock star, he
has a cigarette in him mouth, he is
wearing sun glasses and he has his
electric guitar all of this fits in with
Rock music.
The layout of the cover is very basic,
there are no other stories or
giveaways listed on the front page. It
is relatively simple.
The large and clear picture
on the cover brings attention
because of the size people
can clearly see the image.
The magazine title ‘the rolling stone’ is half covered by the
image. However though this doesn’t really matter as the
brand is so strong, this is mainly because the magazine is
named after one of the biggest rock n roil bands there has
ever been.
Again we see where the magazine is trying to draw
peoples eyes by using capital letters for its
headline. This draws in peoples eyes as it is easy to
spot what the main story is.
We can see that the magazine is trying to catch
peoples eyes from the snippet of slashes exclusive
interview. This teases the reader in and makes
them want to read more of the interview.