Textual Analysis of NME (Music Magazine)

This magazine is a magazine which is used to present information to the public about the happenings in the music industry. It has been published weekly since March 1952. It's purpose is to provide information about music such as: the music charts; tour dates; and general information about the latest happenings within music.

On the front of the magazine it shows the band "The Gossip" this is show as a huge photo of the band which focuses on the lead singer Beth Ditto as she is the bands main attraction. The pictures of her and her band mates look to be all single pictures of one another which have been put onto the magazine with Beth Ditto mainly taking up all the space with her picture on top of both the boys. The picture look professional and look to be a studio shot of each band member this could show that the band have had their photo's taking specifically for the magazine so the story which backs up the photo's will be authentic and true. The clothes they're all wearing looks to suit the music "scene" which relates back to the magazines specific aim of music. Due to the main vocalist Beth Ditto wearing black the white and red text used "The Gossip" and "Sex,Skins and standing in the way of control" really stand out and make it easy to read.

The title of the magazine "NME" (New Musical Express) is as red uppercase text on a black background which is used on every magazine showing consistency of that logo. As the magazine has come more popular the pictures used on the front cover have started to block out some of the NME logo this shows that due to the magazine popularity the people who buy it already know what the magazine is called so this allows the pictures to expand more over the text without any complication. Throughout all the text and sections on the front page of the magazine only four colours are used which are: red;yellow;white;and black these colour could be used because they easily stand out and draw the readers in. At the bottom of the magazine it shows the price and website address for the magazine, the use of the website address gives the reader another alternative on how to view information about the music industry. Down the left hand side of the front page, they're parts sectioned off which give an insight into a story which is in the magazine such as Noel: "I was wrong about the Klaxons" the use of this makes reader want to view the rest off the story when picking up the magazine. All the text which is used is all in a different colour making it more attractive.

The language used on this front page of the magazine is how the layout is structured with several sections of text and how it's all been parted from one another, the picture of the band "The Gossip" and the masthead and headlines.

The institution of the magazine is IPC Media who publish the magazine and also NME who produce all the information from the music industry and put it into their magazine.

The ideology for the magazine is that it's all about music so the idea's behind the text what is in the magazine will have come from the latest happenings in the music industry.

The audience for this magazine could be seen for an age of 16-19 however, it's mainly for anyone who is interested in musuic.

The representation shown in the pictures are that they're all part of a band with them being taken as professional photographs.