analysing covers

Age: 18-37

Gender: male

social grade:C1-E

Ethnicity: White

interests: festivals, chilling with friends, interested in playing music.

Masthead: In the NME its an abbreviation of new music express. its all in capitals. I've chosen to use bands in my masthead to show the sort of artists which would be in my magazine. The genre connotes too different, one of a kind sounds. the typography that has been used attracts the audience as its popular bands that they would know as they have an interest in the magazine. the mastheads font is 3D with white as the shadow this will attract the audience as its a dull background. it also has black outlines to make the font more defined.

The colour pallet i have used are quite dirty and rustic, not too many bright colours apart from the original red and white. the sort of earthy colours connote too the outside and really gets the indie theme. 

The layout is really basic. nothing too crazy. its really simple yet bold and attracts the audience by the bright red. The layout connotes simplicity and authenticness in the magazine. its quite a grown up layout  and quite surphisticated but in a fun way.

The main image is a medium close up and it shows a bearded man standing outside wearing a hoodie, there is also birds in the back round. i have chose a middle aged man who is white  with stubble and a sweatshirt, this is because most of my target audience would look like that.

i have a bar code and and release date on my magazine as a feature, they aren't very big else the audience wouldn't like the magazine and be attracted to it≈