This double paged spread from an issue of NME depicts a member of blur covering an entire page and overlapping onto the other, a common convention of these sorts of double page spreads. The image is an extreme close up with a caption in a small white box in the bottom left corner of the page. The white box is a bit small to read and may be a problem for some readers with bad eyesight. The colours of the photograph seem watered down and follow a green, black and grey colour scheme, with a slight bit of red. These colours also compliment the text on the page opposite.
The other page features the article about the band member. The top half of the page is dedicated to a quote by a band member which also doubles as the title of the article, another common convention of music magazines. The font in the title varies in size and colour to reflect the quote itself, which talks about ‘vomiting’ and band ‘Blur.’ Beneath the title is a smaller heading introducing the article and the article itself presented in four columns. Traditionally articles for double page spreads feature three. Letters at the beginning of paragraphs are slightly large and bolder so that the reader can easily find them. Since this is a particularly long article there seems to be a break in the middle, signposted by the second large letter the beginning of a paragraph that starts roughly halfway through.
In the bottom corners of the pages is the NME logo accompanied by a page number. It is common that magazines will plaster their logos everywhere in their magazines, sometimes with the issue number and date, as is the case here.
In the subheading the name of the interviewee is in bold, giving this person particular importance in the eyes of the reader. Sometimes in these kinds of magazines the interviewer's name is also highlighted in bold if they are well known or a name people will recognize When the name of the interviewer is not well known, usually they will simple state the name of the magazine or 'we.'
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