There is a yellow masthead, however rather than contain the usual information of the name, price
and date of the magazine, it splashes information to grab the readers attention of current musical
news. The title of the magazine ‘NME’ an abbreviation of ‘new musical express’. Although the whole
magazine is busy and pulls you in straight away will all the contents displayed, the name straight
away catches your attention, with a bright block red and black outline standing out against any
background.
The masthead, is the very first thing that catches your eye amongst all the other things that do. The
title of the magazine ‘NME’ an abbreviation of ‘New Musical Express’, pulls you in straight away with
a bright block red fill colour, and a black outline, making it stand out against any background used
for the magazine.
A banner is used along both the top and the bottom of the magazine. Along the top, a bright yellow
is used which is yet
another thing that
catches your eye
immediately on
the magazine
against the black,
bold font. The
banner at the top
of the magazine, is
relating to the
current music news
that people would
want to hear
about. The
background colour
of the top banner
matches the colour
of the leading
article, this then
also stands out
against the
background and
draws attention to
the features of the
magazine. The
banner at the
bottom of the
page, has a black
background and therefore doesn’t stand out as much against the dark background. It is also a lot
smaller which suggests that this article is of less importance to the other articles featured on the
cover. The main feature of this article of the magazine it’s obviously about ‘the wombats’, their
image is used as the magazine background for this issue, and the yellow colour is used again, to
make it look much brighter and stand out even more. It is also the biggest piece of text on the page,
other than the masthead so it immediately draws our attention and we are aware that this is the
main story followed through. Reverse-out text is used on the titles of the other articles, situated
around the headline, the white and blue does not stand out as much as the yellow, which tells us it is
not as important, these colours are also used in the title of the articles featured around the edges. T
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