Magazine Cover Analysis (Q magazine- music)

      •It has  a specific house style- The colours black,red and white are used, these colours are bold and stand out hence they appeal to people who are bold and confident.

      •Left third has all or most of the  information.

      •There is always one dominant picture of a celebrity or few celebrities(band). The magazine always features them and they are used to catch the attention of the audience.

       •She/he looks directly at the camera.The woman is made to look like a sex symbol while the man is made to look more casual or relatable not.

       •They use white as a dominant colour to catch attention.

       •There’s always a barcode and dateline.

          •Q magazine aims to attract an audience range from teenagers to people in their thirties.

•They feature many genre musicians on their covers: rock, pop and metal.

•They use language and fonts that are friendly , casual and more appealing to the readers.

•Except for black, all the colours used are bright and attractive.

•They mostly feature current news.

•Their masthead is always in the left third along with most of their articles.

•The masthead is also used as a symbol/logo and is ‘Q’ because they felt that a short masthead would be more prominent and easy to remember.

•The masthead doesn't overlap the picture.

Red and white(used in the masthead) are also their featured colours in which red denotes passion for music and white denotes goodness