NME- Double page spread

A large image is usually on the left hand side of a double page spread. .This is a convention of a double page spread .The double page spread should have the same font as the other pages. The headline is always found in a double page spread. Head line and main image usually goes across the pages. This is done in many magazines. This makes it obvious it is a double page spread as it links together and makes more sense visually. The blue line makes the other section that is talking about something else link so it is relevant. However it is different as it has the black background but visually it makes sense. Info boxes can be seen in double page spreads quite often. In this double page spread the info box is used to list bands. Quotes can be also found quite often .They appear underneath the headline. Underneath the headline there is always a subheading .In this magazine the subheading is “young, dumb, and full of …..Filthy tunes” most of the time they use puns . Tis is a linguistic technique. Usually in a double page spread you would find the first letter of an article to be in a big size compared to the other letterings. In this magazine you can see that the letter T is bigger than the other letterings in the article. At the end of the article there is an advert where you can see the website of the magazine that may let you find more information on the band. This is called a Symbiotic relation between the magazine website. The bed and the wallpaper represent the adult world they have to live in but the posters shows their freedom. It shows their aspiration ,the life they want ,the idea of fame and colour. The way that the teenagers are lying down is a cliché. Also the teenagers that are lying down on the bed are all in different clicks. For example popular, smart etc... This is done so the teenagers can relate them selves to the people in the pictures. This is called personal identification it is one of the uses and gratification theory. They chose to use a note book style for the info box because it suggest the band is not solidly famous that icon represents that a note book is impermanent so it like you has been there at the beginning because many teenagers like to say they liked that band first. Teenagers mostly like bands when they are less famous because when they become famous they loose that special thing where they liked the band in the first place. The secondary image is made out as it is put on in the last minute. The little star that says NME loves has connotations of impermanent. It means get in now while you can. It is made out to be special. This creates a community people who read the NME would feel special. This can be incredibly powerful as many teenagers want to be the in crowd, in a gang or group.