AOB-2 - (Music Press Structure)

for the task of analyzing an issue of NME, we looked at various aspects of the magazine, mainly the layout of the magazine as a whole, so we could understand how it is laid out and the percentage of each type of content. I then took a flat plan and labeled them and colour coded the so it was visually easily to understand how its laid out. 

With first glance at the flat plan the dominant type of content is the Paid adverts, the reason for their being so many is so that NME would make more money in advertising that actual circulation of selling the magazine. The next most dominant content in the magazine would either be Features or Reviews, using common sense it would be more logical if it was Features as that is what has drawn the audience to buy the magazine more than the reviews so it would make sense if it was second most dominant. each content of the magazine is generally bunched together with an advert in between to break it up.

One of the main reasons we did this task is so we could understand the layouts of magazines in general, for example if we took an issue of NME in two different months, the layout would be very similar and the type of content percentage would be around the same number, it might be on different pages but the amount of content. 

The pie chart shows in clearer detail the amount of content that the magazine holds and gives you an overview of what goes into a magazine, for example the Paid Adverts is more than 1/3 of the magazine whilst the features of the magazine is less that 1/5 of the magazine.