Tayla Webber

This cover is very masculine. Its got a a guy interviewer in a leather jacket being poked around by a couple of ghoulish creatures holding needles and poison. Its defiantly not feminine and it is more of a manly magazine because there are dark colours and only men on the cover.

The black red colouring for the lead article and masthead makes it stand out further. I like the way for “NME” it uses a double stroke and the bold capitals and bright colours make it eye catching.

The cover is very young looking as it looks almost like a cartoon by using the Gorillaz in their animation form. This also relates to the masculinity of the magazine and boys generally like comics.

Here the use of “super massive Big Apple show” is relating to the article for the contents which instantly lets you know its about muse which will draw fans in.

Here in this magazine they’ve combined their contents page with an article to draw in readers as to say there’s more where that came from inside.

Also here this contents varies widely from the mixmag magazine as its all small and sticks to one side. They’ve also put it in alphabetical order to help the reader search instantly what they are looking for. NME’s audience are music-fans, so here the contents is listed by band.

Id say this contents page is quite masculine as it uses a lot of black red and white, which also connects with the emblem for NME, as its symbol is created from red white and black (on front cover) house style relates.

This contents page is both pictorial and textual, as it features an article. The picture makes it less boring to read.

This article is hard to summarise as to whether its pro-Gorillaz or against, as it doesn’t really big them up or put them down, it talks mainly of what they are doing throughout the duration of the interview. But to me it does seem as if they are promoting the band as the article connotes them as weird and a little strange which is exactly what the band promote themselves to be.

The colour scheme used in this article of blank and green are masculine colours which is fitting for the band, dark and goulish.

There isn't too much to say about this double spread. It shows Damon facing his alter-ago; as Gorillaz is all about a virtual world. But apart from that it’s a standard drop double column page each.

By stating that one of the bands that is very popular to the readers new album is coming out and they get the first listen automatically attracts the readers to buy it due to wanting to know the new trends. The white bold writing in capitals will automatically draw in the attention of the readers wanting to buy it.