Deconstruction of NME Double Page Spread

The double page spread article is the main feature and uses a similar picture to that shown on the front cover, except that in this photograph, the artists featured have moved slightly, and are just laughing around with the camera as a group of friends normally would on a day out. The same colour of mainly black and white is kept to, which maintains continuity levels throughout the magazine and helps to keep the house style. The use of black and white images also links all of the pages together, and traditionally carries connotations of being old, which contrasts the concept of the ‘new’ in the name of the magazine; New Music Express. Medallions with title of the feature are repeated in the top outer corners of both pages to make it easier for the reader to locate the pages, and because this is making use of the area known as dead space. All of the images are bordered by white shapes, which mimic those from the old-fashioned instant cameras, black text and the background, which makes the page layout look more structured and more attractive for the audience to read. The layout of both pages loosely follows the rule of thirds, and the pages have been linked together through the use of techniques such as black and white photographs, the same text size, font, the same colour of all of the captions, the same colour of all of the font, similar layout and the same colour and font for all of the subtitles.