Double Page Spread Analysis

The Title ‘the man who owns the world’ enhances his superiority.

This links to the superior look he has on the front cover and 

It’s also is relevant to the article which talks about how

influential, great and superior Bowie is and how artists

of Today still idolise him.

The theme throughout the article is black, white and pink,

this also links to the front cover in the article all important

text is written in pink and on the front cover and

also the first picture of the article David Bowie is

highlighted in pink  which, emphaisis his

importance.

This page is taken up mostly by the image of Bowie

and Twiggy two phenomanal icons of their time

in different industries.

In this particular image Bowie is made to look condident

and dominant, he is looking head on and Twiggy

is lower down than him emphasise his importance.

The feature article is based on David Bowie, Bowie made music and was in his prime mostly in the 1970’s so the target audience may be Forty year olds , but the target for NME magazine may be 20 -45 because David Bowie made an impact on for generation even if they wasn’t alive when Bowie was in his Prime. The target audience may also be quite young because it talks about how young, modern and very popular musicians of today, such as Brandon Flowers and Lady Gaga, this will appeal to a younger audience because they may not be interested in David Bowie but they’re interested in the artists writing the story and what influence Bowie may have had other them.

The language is very formal, and they use a lot of sophisticated metaphors and simile’s to compare Bowie to current up and coming ‘synthpop’ bands such as MGMT. They are not addressing people who are new to David Bowie, they’re addressing people who are already dedicated fans of David Bowie and know his work and listen to that indie rock music.

Colour is used to emphasis important things such as the artists’ names that are influenced by Bowie and also the artists that have covered his songs. It links to the masthead which is also pink ‘Why Bowie means more than ever’ whenever there is text idolising Bowie it is written in pink emphasising his importance.  Pink is also used to highlight the website and the graphic at the top is a lightning bolt which is associated with Bowie is also the colour pink along with the artist’s names

The text used is in block capitals which is rather masculine which links with the target audience who are mainly men.

The double page spread is set out very neatly and it’s easy to find information, the text is mostly written around the images making the images stand out more and important. Very Organised

The magazine is mainly taken up by text though there are several images relevant to the text. The proportions of text to images are about the same, though images are slightly higher.