I based the layout of my magazine front cover research around NME music magazine, NME uses the usually conventions that most magazines use such as, cover lines, left third, plugs and puffs. NME usually stick to a certain colour scheme of black, white and red, but on special editions they re-arrange the magazines normal layout and colour scheme and base it around the featured artist or special occasion.
I think the NME logo is easily one of the most easily recognisable logo's, its bold and double outlined to make it stick out, which is especially good when it needs to contend against other music magazine on the shelf. In this edition the colour scheme is yellow and purple, it is a special edition against racism through the median of music. The colours are both bold and clash against one another, which makes it a good contender on the shop shelf for catching readers attention. It features the same plug/puff 'FREE CD' twice, almost throwing it at the readers face to catch attention, and the magazine names the bands/artists featured on the CD and a lot are very famous and well known which would make the CD more desirable and make readers want to buy the magazine just for the CD.
On this magazine cover in the bottom right corner NME has used a 'ripped' effect, to make it seem as if someone has ripped a corner out of the magazine giving the cover depth and also adding another little feature to catch readers attention. A lot of people are featured on the main image which creates a lot of pairs of eyes enabling to catch readers eyes.
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