NME front cover Analysis

Prior to the comparison of NME & RWD magazine, it came to the task of a thorough analysis of a magazine cover itself; to help us get ideas, see the conventions in detail and to pretty much work out for ourselves what sort of colour themes we wanted to use for our magazine cover and make us think about what would stand out, what would grab the readers attention in the first place so that we'd be able to sell or distribute our magazine, or atleast get the customers to want to read it and be gripped from the moment they saw the front cover. In my personal opinion, one particular genre and a lot of different artists wouldnt be very wise in particular for something of the sort. I assume that one main genre, with many interlinked sub genre's would work out a lot better after having a look at NME's cover. NME is a magazine that is most often connoted with rock music, just by looking at the cover. As MCR (My Chemical Romance) are a punk rock band who have made it, seeing as they are on the front cover of the magazine. But when i saw the footer and header I saw two artists that caught my eye, making me realise that NME didnt JUST focus on one particular genre, but it touched onto a few others whilst it was at it. Artists that I caught eye of were Gorrilaz and Kid Cudi, who are both apart from alternative rock artists are alternative hip hop. Although they are also alternative rock, I notice that even though we may not realise it, a lot of artists go into quite a few genres making me start to think of ways which I can exploit this for my own magazine. But anyway, my philosiphy aside heres my analysis of the front cover for the NME front cover:

NME vs RWD annotations

Well even if i made this blog over 3 weeks ago, due to technical difficulties and a lost USB, I have finally got back on track and am able to upload my work, starting with the NME & RWD comparison, which we had to do, to see the differences between the styles, layout, colours and frontpages of the magazine. This in particular helped me realise the importance of strong colours in particular. The analysis of the RWD magazine was the most important part of this task, purely based on the fact, quite a few of the genres that were in my original plan were all connected. Meaning, dubstep, rap (usually a lot of people would say hip hop, but to make it clear, hip hop is a culture, and the preaching of this culture in the form of rap, became known as hip hop by artists such as RUN D.M.C, Public Enemy, N.W,A/N****'s With Attitude, Funkmaster Flex, Big Daddy Kane and others) , R&B, Dancehall, Funky House and Garage. From these there are other sub-genres such as Jungle, Dubstep, Drum & Bass, House and others. Just by looking at the layouts of the two, I learnt there was SO much difference between them and even the tone of language was A LOT different than my initial impression on such magazines, before i even looked at this.. So looks like this is the beginning of a whole new learning curve.