NME is the masthead of this magazine and stands for the new music express. It is a very popular music magazine in the United Kingdom. The masthead for the magazine is a plain white which connotes simplicity. The mast head really stands out when infront of Gerald but when behind the light blue screen it doesn't really stand out as much.
The masthead seems to work well for this magazine though because it looks modern and clean and sometimes the simplest fonts work well for a magazine.
The man in the magazine is called Gerald. Gerald Way is a vocalist for a band called My Chemical Romance. There is only one band member featuring in this magazine which means he is having a personal interview which is all about him or that he is the face of the band and that he is trying to promote them because of his red hair he is more recognisable and stands out more on this magazine front page. The read hair could connote the colour of blood because he is in a rock band and some lyrics to some of his songs are about pain and love which could represent why his hair is that colour because love is usually associated with the colour red and pain doesn't have a colour but when someone is in pain they draw blood and blood is the colour red.
Geralds facial expression looks like he is annoyed and what backs this up is the main coverline which says "Gerard sees red" . The word "sees red" refers to bullfighting. It is well known that a Matador usses a red cape to intimidate the bull. When the bull gets agitated it charges the Madator but it tends to aim for the cape rather than the man. Seeing red refers to the situation of being so angry your anger crontrols you and causes you to be extremely enraged. Which brings me back to the main coverline because it also says "We loath what Goth has become". In my opinion Gerald is refering to himself as the bull and Goth as the Madator and the Goth has agitated Gerald so much he is venting his feeling about the situation in a magazine interview.
The fact that he says we also shows the whole band back him up on what he is saying.
The blue background connotes a calm blue feel to it but it clashes with Geralds fiery red hair and then clashes even more when you read the coverlines because it shows the red hair represents his anger.
There is only one coverline in black and its near the top left of the page and says "Suade come back interview" which is a pretty basic coverline for a music magazine most of this magazine doesn't break much conventions and sticks to pretty basic language and font. Either NME feels like its audience is pretty huge and that they can keep it basic for some issues or that they want there magazine to look like that because it looks modern and its safe.
The other coverline says "NME awards 2011 amazing new line up revealed" with all the bands performing beneath.
Even though the magazine is pretty basic this would make people want to buy it because it features who will be performing at the NME awards and alot of people attend those awards so this issue would get alot of readers.
All of the fonts on the page are san serif this connotes how modern the magazine is along with its white and black colours.
The magazines colour scheme also represent a sky because of the blue background representing the sky and the white coverlines representing clouds. This helps make Gerald stand out more because of his facial expression and hair.
This magazine front cover would attract a wide audience of people going or interested in the NME awards but it will mostly attract girls and Goths who want to know what Geralds problem is with them.
The magazine would attract girls because Gerald looks like he is posing aswell as he is angry and My Chemical romance has a big female fan base because of how they look and how they appeal to there audience.
The masthead seems to work well for this magazine though because it looks modern and clean and sometimes the simplest fonts work well for a magazine.
The man in the magazine is called Gerald. Gerald Way is a vocalist for a band called My Chemical Romance. There is only one band member featuring in this magazine which means he is having a personal interview which is all about him or that he is the face of the band and that he is trying to promote them because of his red hair he is more recognisable and stands out more on this magazine front page. The read hair could connote the colour of blood because he is in a rock band and some lyrics to some of his songs are about pain and love which could represent why his hair is that colour because love is usually associated with the colour red and pain doesn't have a colour but when someone is in pain they draw blood and blood is the colour red.
Geralds facial expression looks like he is annoyed and what backs this up is the main coverline which says "Gerard sees red" . The word "sees red" refers to bullfighting. It is well known that a Matador usses a red cape to intimidate the bull. When the bull gets agitated it charges the Madator but it tends to aim for the cape rather than the man. Seeing red refers to the situation of being so angry your anger crontrols you and causes you to be extremely enraged. Which brings me back to the main coverline because it also says "We loath what Goth has become". In my opinion Gerald is refering to himself as the bull and Goth as the Madator and the Goth has agitated Gerald so much he is venting his feeling about the situation in a magazine interview.
The fact that he says we also shows the whole band back him up on what he is saying.
The blue background connotes a calm blue feel to it but it clashes with Geralds fiery red hair and then clashes even more when you read the coverlines because it shows the red hair represents his anger.
There is only one coverline in black and its near the top left of the page and says "Suade come back interview" which is a pretty basic coverline for a music magazine most of this magazine doesn't break much conventions and sticks to pretty basic language and font. Either NME feels like its audience is pretty huge and that they can keep it basic for some issues or that they want there magazine to look like that because it looks modern and its safe.
The other coverline says "NME awards 2011 amazing new line up revealed" with all the bands performing beneath.
Even though the magazine is pretty basic this would make people want to buy it because it features who will be performing at the NME awards and alot of people attend those awards so this issue would get alot of readers.
All of the fonts on the page are san serif this connotes how modern the magazine is along with its white and black colours.
The magazines colour scheme also represent a sky because of the blue background representing the sky and the white coverlines representing clouds. This helps make Gerald stand out more because of his facial expression and hair.
This magazine front cover would attract a wide audience of people going or interested in the NME awards but it will mostly attract girls and Goths who want to know what Geralds problem is with them.
The magazine would attract girls because Gerald looks like he is posing aswell as he is angry and My Chemical romance has a big female fan base because of how they look and how they appeal to there audience.
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