15th October 2012 Analysing a music magazine
“Q” is published by the Bauer Media Group, the UK’s largest magazine publisher in the UK. Baer own 282 magazines in 15 countries and also TV and Radio stations. It has a low monthly circulation of 80,400 readers.
The masthead of the magazine denotes one simple easy to remember letter ‘Q’ which takes 15% of the cover. The letter ‘Q’ is not only there as a masthead but also as a logo. The masthead is placed right in a middle of a red outstanding from the page big square. I would like to point it out nothing is designed just to look good every single bit that has been put on the front cover has a deeper meaning with it the subject. Not many people are thinking of, why the square of a logo is in red? It catches the eye of a customer but the designer knows their target audience very well and he knows what they are looking for. Red is the hottest colour of the warm colours girls (the target audience for Q) are looking for something that catch their eye immediately but also red connotes a strong colour that conjures up a range of seemingly conflicting emotions. Underneath the masthead there’s a tagline saying ‘A DIFFERENT TYPE OF MUSIC’ which means the ‘Q’ is a music industry
magazine. Backing to this hot red colour, red can denote ‘different’ emotions, ‘different’ types of music. The logo is placed in the left hand corner, people in England and in most European countries are reading from left to right so their eye are automatically looking to the left and then they looking for more information elsewhere. ’Q’ has decided to put their logo in a place that is going to be seen and so that they have more space to develop their other ideas. ‘Q’ is not a very popular letter It’s almost unique, there is not a lot of countries where this letter is used so in my opinion this magazine is focusing on a stuff that is different and unique. Letter ‘Q’ is not used very often but still really useful. I think magazine ‘Q’ was trying to make this magazine as simple as possible so the audience will remember the magazine masthead fairly easily and it will show it’s something different from other music magazines. Most of the magazines are running theirs mastheads right at the top of a magazine cover, although ‘Q’ is positioned in a very altered way.
Just after looking at the masthead is eye are moving towards the right. The place where the reader can see column with all the kickers written up. Most of the magazines have the kicker on the left side so this magazine is trying to make something different from other magazines they trying to build the own image. It is all structured and everything has its own column, where in most of those types of magazines everything is out of space. The ’Q’ decide to talk about three different music bands, although all three of the bands names are written in a same style the rest of a kicker is not. They used a different style to make a metamorphosis. Reader might not even know what the bands are but from the way the words and style is set up they can already judge on the genre of music.
There is no specific audience for ‘Q’ the magazine really hope to interest not only females but also males, that’s why they are looking for various of music types.
In big letters almost as big as the logo by itself you can see the strapline is going across, position in a middle of a page. All in capital letters ‘LILY ALLEN’(‘LILY’ in black letters and ‘ALLEN’ in clear white) just above the name of a music artist it says ’SEXY BEAST’ all in the capitol letters although the colours has been swapped now the first word is in white and the second word is in black to make a contrast.
Why ‘SEXY BAST’ on this specific cover magazine you can clearly see the whole ‘LILY ALLEN’s’ body. She is topless and she has really tight sorts on. She is standing to us turn to the back and looking out a little bit to the reader in a very sexy way. Next to here there is two panthers each one on each side of her. One of the panthers is walking towards us and the other is looking really sheik ‘grrrrr’. The artist on that cover look so real and you would never say it is a myth, but it is. The photograph would never put the music arts on the same photo panel as two panthers. You never know what the panther might do after being photographed when the flash goes to panther eye and also ‘LILY ALLEN’ didn’t pose top less. The whole cover is a myth it is created to make a good, beneficial image of a character but it doesn’t mean it is real. The picture is right behind the writing, although one of the panthers head is taking place on the writing to create this outstanding image from the cover. Below the ‘LILY’ there’s a rest of the strapline ‘& HER WICKED, WICKED WAYS….’ (to create this outstanding look the magazine not only increased size of the letters but they also gave the red colour to it).The use of the alliteration and repetition makes it sound really clever and interesting there reader is trying to think… What are her ‘WICKED’ ways? This really persuades customers of magazine ‘Q’ to buy it.
Going down there is well known by a lot of magazine part on a cover called ‘sticker’ It stand out from the other part on this cover it’s not in column or in square but it is in circle. It catches the eye very simply and easily. The sticker almost seems like a bonus to this magazine, ’THE 25 GREATEST ROCK MOVIES’. This might also suggest the fact that everyone knows ‘LILY ALLEN’ is not a rock star so they looking for various types of music.
Next in a row is well known and popular barcode. Every single magazine in in held with one barcode. The barcode is not only there to help the shop to sell and for the customers so they how much it cost, but it also store a date so them ‘Q’ magazine knows how many magazines had been sold.
In comparison to any other magazine ‘Q’ is not giving to the customers all the details there is not much writing involved on this cover. In my opinion what the magazine is trying to do it to persuade people to buy it but not giving them to much so they more curious what is idea, what else there is that ‘Q’ is offering to us the customers.
The masthead of the magazine denotes one simple easy to remember letter ‘Q’ which takes 15% of the cover. The letter ‘Q’ is not only there as a masthead but also as a logo. The masthead is placed right in a middle of a red outstanding from the page big square. I would like to point it out nothing is designed just to look good every single bit that has been put on the front cover has a deeper meaning with it the subject. Not many people are thinking of, why the square of a logo is in red? It catches the eye of a customer but the designer knows their target audience very well and he knows what they are looking for. Red is the hottest colour of the warm colours girls (the target audience for Q) are looking for something that catch their eye immediately but also red connotes a strong colour that conjures up a range of seemingly conflicting emotions. Underneath the masthead there’s a tagline saying ‘A DIFFERENT TYPE OF MUSIC’ which means the ‘Q’ is a music industry
magazine. Backing to this hot red colour, red can denote ‘different’ emotions, ‘different’ types of music. The logo is placed in the left hand corner, people in England and in most European countries are reading from left to right so their eye are automatically looking to the left and then they looking for more information elsewhere. ’Q’ has decided to put their logo in a place that is going to be seen and so that they have more space to develop their other ideas. ‘Q’ is not a very popular letter It’s almost unique, there is not a lot of countries where this letter is used so in my opinion this magazine is focusing on a stuff that is different and unique. Letter ‘Q’ is not used very often but still really useful. I think magazine ‘Q’ was trying to make this magazine as simple as possible so the audience will remember the magazine masthead fairly easily and it will show it’s something different from other music magazines. Most of the magazines are running theirs mastheads right at the top of a magazine cover, although ‘Q’ is positioned in a very altered way.
Just after looking at the masthead is eye are moving towards the right. The place where the reader can see column with all the kickers written up. Most of the magazines have the kicker on the left side so this magazine is trying to make something different from other magazines they trying to build the own image. It is all structured and everything has its own column, where in most of those types of magazines everything is out of space. The ’Q’ decide to talk about three different music bands, although all three of the bands names are written in a same style the rest of a kicker is not. They used a different style to make a metamorphosis. Reader might not even know what the bands are but from the way the words and style is set up they can already judge on the genre of music.
There is no specific audience for ‘Q’ the magazine really hope to interest not only females but also males, that’s why they are looking for various of music types.
In big letters almost as big as the logo by itself you can see the strapline is going across, position in a middle of a page. All in capital letters ‘LILY ALLEN’(‘LILY’ in black letters and ‘ALLEN’ in clear white) just above the name of a music artist it says ’SEXY BEAST’ all in the capitol letters although the colours has been swapped now the first word is in white and the second word is in black to make a contrast.
Why ‘SEXY BAST’ on this specific cover magazine you can clearly see the whole ‘LILY ALLEN’s’ body. She is topless and she has really tight sorts on. She is standing to us turn to the back and looking out a little bit to the reader in a very sexy way. Next to here there is two panthers each one on each side of her. One of the panthers is walking towards us and the other is looking really sheik ‘grrrrr’. The artist on that cover look so real and you would never say it is a myth, but it is. The photograph would never put the music arts on the same photo panel as two panthers. You never know what the panther might do after being photographed when the flash goes to panther eye and also ‘LILY ALLEN’ didn’t pose top less. The whole cover is a myth it is created to make a good, beneficial image of a character but it doesn’t mean it is real. The picture is right behind the writing, although one of the panthers head is taking place on the writing to create this outstanding image from the cover. Below the ‘LILY’ there’s a rest of the strapline ‘& HER WICKED, WICKED WAYS….’ (to create this outstanding look the magazine not only increased size of the letters but they also gave the red colour to it).The use of the alliteration and repetition makes it sound really clever and interesting there reader is trying to think… What are her ‘WICKED’ ways? This really persuades customers of magazine ‘Q’ to buy it.
Going down there is well known by a lot of magazine part on a cover called ‘sticker’ It stand out from the other part on this cover it’s not in column or in square but it is in circle. It catches the eye very simply and easily. The sticker almost seems like a bonus to this magazine, ’THE 25 GREATEST ROCK MOVIES’. This might also suggest the fact that everyone knows ‘LILY ALLEN’ is not a rock star so they looking for various types of music.
Next in a row is well known and popular barcode. Every single magazine in in held with one barcode. The barcode is not only there to help the shop to sell and for the customers so they how much it cost, but it also store a date so them ‘Q’ magazine knows how many magazines had been sold.
In comparison to any other magazine ‘Q’ is not giving to the customers all the details there is not much writing involved on this cover. In my opinion what the magazine is trying to do it to persuade people to buy it but not giving them to much so they more curious what is idea, what else there is that ‘Q’ is offering to us the customers.
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