Evaluation of NME magazine front cover.

The front cover of this issue of NME magazine is clear and literate. There is no specific colour scheme fitted to every issue of the magazine but this copy seems to follow and nautical theme with the colours of blue, red and white very current to this issue. The Magazine seems to be aimed to a younger audience by the way of the layout its biggest feature is the picture of the male boy band this would also attract a female based audience. The picture is shot as a medium close up its shows just the heads and top half of the body of the people in the picture. This allows for the audience to clearly see the expressions on the boy band and to feel as if they are directly looking at us. The Masthead of the actual magazine remains the same for every issue it stays matching with the colours and the actual geographical alignment of the title remains in the left top hand side corner. There are no specific box shapes that hold text except a circle shape that holds some text about a competition this draws the eye directly to it and so in an effective way of advertisement. The main picture is the only images on the front cover this keeps the ideas simple so does not overcrowd the main features. The actual text sizes all vary, the two biggest being the masthead of the magazine and the cover line also has a added effect which makes it look as if it is glowing so there for attracts the readers eye. All of the font types are clear and simple and yet strong and seem to follow the same on the actual page. The colours of the fonts also reflect the actual theme of the issue so compliments this theme. The style of the font is a chunky clear lettering; it seems to be less boring than normal fonts because of the extra things added on to it such as the glow and the bright colours. The language used is in between formal and informal it is simple and yet effective for this magazine it uses the correct English language but does use a lot of lists this is because you can not fit a big piece of text on the front cover so has to abbreviated.