Nme magazine front cover deconstruction

This is a front cover of the market leaders, nme magazine's, front cover which i have deconstructed.

Symbolic features

• The title of the band on front cover is the largest peice of writing on the cover, the colour stands out from the dark background and it attracts alot of attention.
• The plug which is underneath the writing is there to attract the reader and make them want to buy the magazine becauswe of the interview and it also gives the reader an incite into the interview.
• The body language of the cover band is very uniterested to the camera although it aknowledges it is there, this is a generic pose from an indie music group so it falls into the codes and conventions of the music genre.
• The background is very black and the only light is from the band which makes them appear god like or angelic with the light beaming down upon them.
• The band take up the very centre of the front cover and most of the page which shows that they are very important to the magazine.

Written features

• The logo of the magazine "NME" is very powerful because it is red and it stands for new musical enterprise which conveys a knowledge and wisedom of music and indie music.
• A qoute form the band is very simple but shows some rebellion or single mindedness as they dont care what other people think about them.

Overall features

• The image of the band takes up all of the centre of the page and is what attracts your attention , the dark background and stron light from the band is very interesting and attractive.
• Arctic monkeys is the largest peice of text on the front cover so it is one of the first things you see which with a band like them with a large fanbase may attract new readers because of the bands interview.
• The plug of each peice of writing attracts readers so it needs to be flashy and interesting.
• Overall the cover has in my opinion got an angelic theme to make the band appear God like coming from a very dark background.

Tunk

Theme- dark but bight in centre

Unique selling point- Life after humbug

Narritve- what the band will do next after their new album

Keywords- life after, we cant worry, other people