Looking at NME reviews.

I know i have done a lot of planning, information and review of other resources, but i quickly wanted to look at the way NME present and write their review articles. This magazine is known for its quirky, intelligent and creativly humourous lingo which creates an informal ambience for its reader.

I have also looked at the way it presents its reviews - similar colours, captital letters to make words stand out and thin lines to separate the text. For EVERY review of a CD, there is a photo of that CD -  making the article more understandable, have more direction and purpose. NME does get different people to write each article, so you can get a completely different sense from each one, yet all go by the same principle of interesting adjectives to further their points.

NME also does a 1-10 scoring of the albums, but this is mainly used when multiple articles are to be on one page of music - so they an be compared and a reader will like at least one of these CDs.

The page is fairly basic and straight-forward. Applying this to my newspaper, i think my layout is to be simple and straightforward and as i have planned, i am only going to have one CD review.