Magazine Cover Research

For our magazine cover we decided to use NME magazines as our target audience are much more likely to read it due to the fact they often have indie rock bands on the cover and they quite often give media coverage to young, up and coming bands as well. The band being featured in the magazine are also photographed on the cover, taking up the majority of the cover itself. For indie bands like ours, this would be a lot of really good exposure to the public as star image is something that indie bands themselves promote much less than bands and artists in other genres, but having a third party, the magazine in this case, allows for at least some coverage of the band itself. The main design features that NME tend to have is the headlines going down the left of the page, More info about whats in the magazine down the bottom and the main headline at the top of the page. When creating a magazine cover you've got to make sure you have various key features such as a bar code, band logo etc.