As is evident in the above images and in most copies of NME, the date line and price are consistently the same, i have decided to research deeper into this as it was one of my improvements for my magazine and its one small yet significant element of a music magazine that cannot be over looked.
New NME magazines come out each week and therefore i shouldn't produce a magazine which comes out monthly like Q, this is important as the level of content is significantly higher in monthly issues than than that of weekly issues so therefore my magazine, 'ignite' should have a specific dateline like '1 February 2015' like NME.
This also effects the price, a monthly magazine averages at around £4 whereas in weekly magazines are much less like NME and their standard price of £2.30 and so i shall use a similar price.
The location of the dateline and price is always in the same place on nme front covers, in the top left hand corner above the masthead. There is an appropriate place on my magazine in which i could place my dateline and price but i must also ensure that it is of a small size so that it doesn't attract much attention away from the most important front cover elements like the masthead and therefore my magazine will also comply better with the style of NME magazines and its conventions.
NME magazine also includes a URL to their website, in small print in their barcode, so there is another element to consider but maybe not one as significant as the dateline and price. I may include a URL to my magazine's website in my DPS to advertise digital content in relation to my featured band the Desperados especially since they talk about their new album within the article so that could be the focus of the digital content on my magazine's website
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