NME Cover Analysis

This is the cover of an NME magazine.

Masthead

The masthead is behind the main image, this was most likely done because they didn't want the masthead taking away the focus from the main image. Although some of the masthead is hidden pretty much anyone who buys this magazine will know what the rest of it looks like so it doesn't really matter.

The masthead is in red mainly with an outline of white and then another outline of black. The red and the white go nicely together enabling our attention to be drawn to it. The black outline on the white is mainly to ensure that we can actually read it against the background.

Main Article

"Reality Blurs!" Is a play on words seeing as the lead singer of Gorillaz (Damon Albarn) used to be in a Brit pop band called blur. This play on words allows a bit of nostalgia to the fans that followed Albarn back in his blur days. It also serves as a reminder to the fans who only know him from Gorillaz that he was in a band before Gorillaz. Damon interviews Gorillaz is also a jokey section of this title. Seeing as the lead singer of Gorillaz is called Damon and the band are portrayed as animated characters with separate names and back stories it almost gives off the feel that we aren't speaking to Albarn any more we are now speaking to the band members of Gorillaz.

Colour Scheme

The colour scheme is quite dark and grimey with a few colours that really pop out.

The main colours are:

-Red

-White

-And this greeny-blue colour that is speckled across the page.

This gives of the feeling that this band is grimey and unkempt, fans of Gorillaz already know that this is actually how the band wishes to be portrayed.

Other text

The white text pops out and draws us to the bottom of the page. Although it only pops out a little bit to make sure that it doesn't draw away focus from the main article. The acts are separated by stars as opposed to bullet points, hyphens or even just spaces. This makes a nice change and breaks the norm. These acts don't have any other text following them they just have their names, this keeps the audience guessing and makes them want to read on.