NME contains 67 pages in total. Out of these pages 19 are used for adverts, this is 28.4% of the total magazine. This is not a lot compared to a lot of magazines as this is how the companies earn their money. The adverts in the magazine could be put into groups such as clothes and accessories, gigs and shows and electronic accessories. The adverts in the magazine would definitely appeal to the target audience. The features in the magazine include:
Reviews on gigs/festivals
- Babyshambles review
- NME tour 2011 line up revealed
- Rihanna
- Twin Shadow
- Tinchy Stryder
- Foals
- Manic Street Preachers
- Release the bats
- Tame Impala
Interviews with people
- Damon Albarn interview
- Chester Bennington
- My Chemical Romance
- Suede comeback interview
- Jenny and Johnny
- These New Puritans
- Mick Rock
- Alice Cooper
Gig Guide
Fanmail
There are 11 double page spreads in this NME magazine. The majority of them are main interviews with people throughout the magazine. The main article in the one that was advertised on the front cover which takes up two double pages.
NME has a unified "house style" which is consistent thoughout the magazine. It uses the same sort of fonts throughout the pages. The maority of the magazine also has a white background with black writing in a serif font (for interviews), this helps to identify the magazine. In NME the layout of pictures are fairy similiar, they lay them on the page like a collage instead of a normal and conventional way. They are sometime overlapping each other or tilted at an angle. NME also uses a lot of quotes in the magazine, they will usually use the subtitle of an article as a quote. This gets the readers attention as it is usually an interesting statement made by the interviewee. The "house style" would apply to the target audience as they are fairly young and the magazine has "fun" aspects to it that would not appeal to an older audience.
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