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Analysis of Front Cover, Contents and Double

This document provides an analysis of the front cover, contents page, and a double page spread from an issue of NME magazine featuring Dizzee Rascal. The front cover uses prominent red and black colors and sans serif fonts consistent with NME's style. It features a smiling medium shot of Dizzee Rascal among other alternative artists to appeal to its target 16-24 male audience. The contents page continues this style and lists the main articles to allow readers to find what interests them. The double page spread features a photo of Dizzee Rascal holding spray paint by a graffiti wall relating to the article title about his rise to fame from tagging, with the written article split into columns referring to the adjacent image

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Analysis of Front Cover, Contents and Double

This document provides an analysis of the front cover, contents page, and a double page spread from an issue of NME magazine featuring Dizzee Rascal. The front cover uses prominent red and black colors and sans serif fonts consistent with NME's style. It features a smiling medium shot of Dizzee Rascal among other alternative artists to appeal to its target 16-24 male audience. The contents page continues this style and lists the main articles to allow readers to find what interests them. The double page spread features a photo of Dizzee Rascal holding spray paint by a graffiti wall relating to the article title about his rise to fame from tagging, with the written article split into columns referring to the adjacent image

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Analysis of Front Cover, Contents and Double Spread from NME (Dizzee Rascal edition)

By Max Qayyum

Front Cover

Header
Tells audience about extras in the magazine, giving them more reasons to purchase it.

Red masthead
The masthead is NMEs well known logo.

Medium longshot
Shows all of Dizzees body except for parts of his legs and arms. He looks happy and inviting by looking directly at the camera and smiling.

Flash
Stands out on the cover and highlights an important story.

Cover lines
Main anchoring cover line
Makes the main story in the magazine stand out and clear. Tells the readers about other stories in the magazine. Dizzee Rascal noticeably stands out as he is a hip-hop artists and the majority of the others are alternative/indie artists.

Pull quote
A quote from the main article inside the magazine, making audiences want to read on.

Barcode House style

Footer
Tells audience about other artists in the magazine, helping appeal to a wider audience.

The prominent red and black colours are used with the NME logo in the top left corner and sans serif fonts used.

Target Audience
Whilst the majority of artists in the cover lines are alternative/rock/indie, the main image is of Dizzee Rascal, a hip-hop artist. Jay-Z is also mentioned in the footer, even though the NME is known as more of a rockoriented monthly publication. The target audience would be males around 16-24 years old. This issue costs 2.30. The social classes its aimed at could be C1C2. Alternative/Rock artists

Hip-hop artists

Contents
Title
Reuses the logo used for the masthead on the front cover and continues the house style.

Date of magazine release

Subheadings
Used to separate the different types of article in the magazine, allowing readers to find what they want quickly.

Band index
A list of all of the artists in the magazine.

Contents
These are the main articles in the issue.

Medium shot
Medium shot of Little Boots (mentioned in the introduction below), canted angle. The tour bus relates to the introduction below.

Advertisement
An advert encouraging readers to subscribe to the magazine

House style
The prominent red and black colours are used with the NME logo repeated and sans serif fonts used.

A short introduction to this touring special issue of the magazine by the editor.

House style
The same background from the front cover is used in the image of Dizzee. Sans serif fonts are used throughout and the logo is repeated.

Double Page Spread

Article title
Play on words relating to Dizzee tagging in the adjacent photo.

Byline Writing and photo credits

Main Image
Shows Dizzee standing by a graffiti wall (a big part of the mise-en-scene) holding spray paint and looking shifty. This is a reference to the from tags part of the title of the article.

Stand First
Gives a short introduction to the article.

Page number and also reuses NMEs logo along with date.

Mise En Scene

Drop Capital
Leads into the article.

Bottles and the stereo/etc are used as props. The texts wraps around this image.

Written Article

The article is about Dizzees rise to fame as implied by the title and is described as his story, written in 2009.

The article is split into 4 columns of around 100 words each and refers frequently to the image of Dizzee which is adjacent.

The article seems quite informal and laid back with lots of observations about Dizzees actions and personality.

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