Magazine cover

The NME is an iconic well recognised music magazine that has been around since march 1952. The key image is a medium shot of Alex Turner and Miles Kane who are both in the band the last shadow puppets who the front cover features. The colour scheme of this cover is red which is normal as the NME usually has a red title as it is consistent. Even though there backs are towards eachother there facial expressions are linked to the audeince threw the mode of adress, The facial expressions on the two men look fairly serious which makes the readers want to buy the magazine to see whats inside. The target audience of this magazine is anyone who enjoys alternative or rock and roll music. As you can see Alex Turner the man on the lefts hair is covering a little of the NME logo, this is super imposition and has been used as the mastered has been covered by the artists hair, this is acceptable as it is an iconic logo so people will still recognise it. This magazine has Codes and conventions such as a Masthead, banner, cover-lines, a barcode, a puff and sub headings.