Analysis of Double-Page Spreads - NME 2

Above is another double-page spread from the music magazine 'New Musical Express', but this time the article is about indie rock artist 'Florence and the Machine'. I seems that this specific piece of text is about a gig that 'Florence and the Machine' did.

The colour scheme for these two pages is black, white and pink. As I have said before, I like it when the editors of magazines use a bright colour with black and white because it draws your eye to different parts of the page and you can also use the bright colour to make word and pieces of text stand out. This then means that you can get the important information more easily across to reader of the article. I think it is also good how the editors of 'NME' have chosen colours that link in with the pictures on the page. For example: they have picked out the pink of the flowers and then used it as one of the font colours.

The fonts that are used in this article are bold and the title of the double-page spread 'Call of the Wild' is in big, black writing. This is good because it stands out from all of the other text on the page and you can instantly tell that this is the title. The subheading is in a different font to the rest of the text, this is another advantage as, like the title, you can instantly tell what it is and separate it from the other text in the feature. For the main part of the article the text is plain and simple this is good factor to have because you would not want anything too over the top and fancy when there is a lot of text to read.

There are quite a lot of pictures on the page, all different sizes. The pictures on the far right-hand side of the page, I think, look good because they are arranged in a randomly overlapping pattern. Whilst the picture of Florence Welch on the left-hand side acts almost as a background. With the title overlapping it. The pictures used in the article are from a gig that is talked about in the text. This is good because the images relate to the article so this is positive because at just a quick glance the reader would be able to get the gist of what the article is about.

Overall, I like how the colours of the text relate to the colours in the main image on the page. I also like how the editors of 'New Musical Express' have used imagery. For example: how the images look down the right-hand side of the page. I also like how the images relate to the article. When I begin to think of ideas for my double-page spread I think I will make sure that the title of the page is bold. Just like this one from 'NME'.