Front Cover Analysis

This magazine cover of NME Magazine is printed to the average size of a magazine, it has a masthead in the lefthand corner of the page, with a large image of the band The Wombats centred in the middle of the cover with the heading "The Wombats - why britain's gone silly for the lords of the indie dancefloor" The Wombats will be centred in the centre of this magazine as they are the main attraction of the magazine and they are a popular band so this will attract readers to buy the magazine. Around the heading there is sub headings about other stories to be featured in this magazine. The sub headings feature bands such as Blur and The Cribs which are well know bands in the indie genre which means that readers will buy the magazine to see what is said about these bands.

The target audience for this magazine is also teenagers and young adults as they are mostly the age group that listens to "indie" music which is featured throughout this magazine, at the tpp of this magazine there is a list of other information about glastonbury festival which is a big festival for the indie genre that will be featured in the magazine.The layout of this magazine is that the main attraction is in the centre with the less important stories to be put around the centred images. The colours used in this cover are plain colours which are used to make the images look more interesting.