Front Cover Magazine Analysis

Magazine analysis

 

 The Denotation of this magazine is that it is simply a music magazine. This is a popular magazine known as ‘NME’ and has a very high reputation in the musical industry. The magazine is used to inform people that follow music what new music to listen to and tells the stories of bands rise to fame and glory.

The colour scheme of this magazine is brown, yellow and white. These colours have connotations. The dark brown colours could connote that the band has depth. The band are mostly wearing dark/brown clothing and they are have brown hair this could show that they are an original band that are natural and are not trying to be anything special unlike some popular music personalities. This is a statement saying, ‘They are what they are’ and are not trying to be anything they are not. The Yellow and light in the back ground of the front cover could symbolise they rise to musical fame. This is supported by the Strap Line. This is Anchorage the Strap Line says “How Britain’s best band finally broke through” and the light in the background shows that light is finally broke through.

The Pull Quote states, “Never Compromise” this is a quote from the band and tells the viewer that no matter what ‘The Horrors’ have never sold out or compromised. They have stuck to their chosen path and will never do anything that could potential ruin their Music and that all they care about, the music. The Main image is a mixture of direct and indirect addresses. Three band members are looking directly at the reader and the other two are looking somewhere off frame. This could suggest they are looking at something like an audience of people.

The Promos is a contest that has the chance to allow you to win tickets to Reading and Leeds music festivals. This catches the reader’s eye and could help sell the magazine. Other hooking techniques are used such as more pull quotes like “it’s going to be special” fans of Nirvana will be interested to find out about Nirvana’s reissues. The use of recent news is also used such as Amy Winehouse’s death is used as a hooking device.

The Pull Quote “Never Compromise” is Ploysemy because it could have several different meanings. It could be used to tell the reader that the band with always be original and not sell out to compromise their music. It could also be interpreted as a message to readers so they can stay true to who they are and don’t give in to other people. Most of the Cover shares the same Text and only the Masthead and the Strap line has different text.

The Main image is a mid shot of the entire band and only captures them from the waist up which differs from most magazine covers which use a Close up of the subject. However when there is a band of the front cover, a mid shot is usually used.