Comparison to a competitor

Both titles at the top of the page in bold, red letters and both more to the left, mine is only slightly to the left to make the slogan flow nicely underneath whereas NME is completely to the left which is quite unconventional but typical of this magazine because of the small name but it does not usually have something so prominent and bold next to it. I did consider putting something else at the top but for my style magazine I think it made it look too messy and take some attention away from the title itself:

They also both have an animalistic idea to it, which is very typical of the representation of females in magazines; in NME her animal is dead because Scarlett is meant to be quite cute and sweet so this creates a contract as she also plays characters which show her to be someone quite powerful and misjudged. Whereas in mine, Leeha looks quite rough anyway in leather and dark clothes, meaning that having an animal such as a rabbit creates a more 'evil villain' with the pet or it could look quite innocent but still animalistic which would be the opposite of the NME magazine cover.

The band/person’s name is placed just under the person’s face, making the face more prominent and showing who it is, this makes it clear that the main topic is the person in the picture and intrigues people more and as this name is usually in the middle of the page and the biggest(or second biggest to the title) making it more eye catching/noticeable.

Bar codes in the bottom right corner which fits with the rule of thirds but the image in NME doesn't necessarily fit with that as the models face is slightly to the right, but because the image is also further down, her face is more in the middle which draws more attention, I couldn’t do this with my image as I wanted to keep the rabbit in the image and I would have ended up with a cap at the top of the page meaning I would have had to have something there which I didn’t want. So although the face isn’t in the middle, it is the middle of the top and seeing as the title is eye catching the face draws you to the title and the title draws you to the face so it could also make the title and face more memorable and it still makes the rabbit noticeable as it’s quite high up but not too central in the image that it’s all the audience would focus on.

There is also the extra information on the left side and the bottom bar. This looks ordered unlike some magazines which put them everywhere, I did try that but thought it looked cluttered and unorganised, although I did and up putting on thing of the right side to make it feel more even and less empty and use the idea of different coloured fonts, I know it’s only black and white but it’s still a variation and the simple colours fit with my theme or alternative rock which is quite typical to use blacks and whites with a main overall of black.