Double Page Analysis 1

This is a double page spread from NME magazine with Lily Allen as the main article. The main image takes up half of the double spread, while half of the other page is floating quote and in the bottom left hand corner. It works very well because the layout is simple but effective, it strikes out the page.  Lily Allen is represented as a stereotypical rock artist, and this is shown through her appearance, body language and stance. Her hair is black with dark make up put on and wearing a combination of dark red and black shirt with her hands on her waist. This article depicts the genre of the music magazine as rock. Her posture is conveyed as she has no care for anything or anyone due to her hands put on her hips.  As she does that she looks directly in to the camera which shows her direct address. This double spread has typical characteristics of a music magazine because the article has been placed into columns also with a big heading.  The page has conventional features like the floating quote. The floating quote in this magazine is 'People think I'm an attention seeker, but I'm just honest' this quote is straight from Lily Allen which makes the reader aware of what might feature inside the article.The use of the floating quote is shown as a newspaper headline which could connote she is always in the news and it makes the floating quote look unique. NME's main article has unconventional features that we aren't used to seeing in a double page spread. one of these features would be the size of the main image Lily Allen which takes up most of one side. The interview is very small which may show that they are mainly focusing on the main image and the floating quote giving it a very visual effect. The article is presented in columns which is the most conventional way in which magazine present the text for the audience  to read. Other conventional features that the magazine is direct address it does this by the floating quote and through the main image where Lilly Allen is looking directly in to the camera.