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Front cover, Content Page and DPS

By Khalid Ismail

The featured artist in this article is starring directly through the camera to the reader.

The cover line is one of the biggest text on the front cover. Main colours are dark purple, white and yellow.

The master head isn’t in front of the artist of behind him and it’s the largest piece of context there.The lower left third is one of first thing the reader will look at. It has all the information about this issues magazine. Contains the most piece of context in the front cover.

Main image represents the main story in this issue and it’s a very dark picture with a dark purple coloured background. The image is a mid shot of “Plan B”

The barcode is placed here with the price and website for this magazine on top.

The master head of the content page and it tells the reader what this page is about.

The content page tells the reader what article is in what page.

There is 12 sections in the content page and they are separated from the rest of the contexts with a column.

The pictures in the content page represent a different section.

Only 1page is used for content.

The date is places here so that the reader can tell

This part of the page is used to advertise a businesses services and they have to pay for this

The main colours in the main cover line is yellow and white and the cover line reflects on what the article is going to be about. The colour yellow is use for emphasise.

The main image is of “Plan B” making hand gestures and h e is looking through the pages of the DPS to the reader to interact with them.

Mid-shot of “Plan B” and in an eye level angle.

The background of this image is of a very urban looking building that is probably being used by poorer people in the public.

The cover line is one of the first thing the reader will read when they look at this DPS.

The main body of context is this DPS isn’t that large but it also contains a large capital letter on the first sentence.

The main image used up most of the space in this DPS and this is because it is spread between both page of this article.

These are all the brands that are already advertising their new products and services on NME’s magazines and this is something businesses want to see when deciding on advertising their business on this magazine. This is because they will be more persuaded to advertise their business on this magazine.

NME add their logo to help the businesses that are planning on advertising their company on NME, to familiarise themselves with this magazine.

These are all the facts about NME’s readers and this is what businesses want to read about, so that they can compare their target audience to NME’s readers.These facts about NME’s readers include their sex, age, ABC1 and if they work or study. NME also include other information in that column like the amount of people that read their magazine.

NME also add information about their readers like the amount of money they spend on a variety of stuff like audio equipment, DVDs, footwear and digital cameras. This information will be useful to these businesses so they can get an overall view on their readers.