Analysis

Top right, there is a big red box with a Q inside, which indicates that the magazine is called Q and that is the logo that they use to distinguish there magazine from the others. Centre of the page is a big picture of Cheryl Cole standing in the rain, looking straight at the camera and seems to be licking something on her finger, probably a ring. This picture is almost guaranteed to catch the attention of all of the target audience of this magazine, and possibly another type of customer too. The banner at the top of the front cover reads “The UK’s Biggest Music Magazine”. This is obviously not a fact and is just an opinion of how the magazine sees itself and what they feel the status of the magazine is amongst its competition. This will also make customers who see the magazine think that they have won an award of some sort for a ‘biggest magazine in the UK’ competition. This will probably show the magazine to be good quality and show how confident they are about the quality of the content inside. Just below the picture of Cheryl Cole, there are 3 lines of writing, getting bigger and a different colour each time. The first line says “3 words”, which is obviously a song by Cheryl Cole and any fans that see the magazine will realise that, also the words are in medium sized red writing. The next line says “Cheryl Cole”. This is in large white writing and is very noticeable, and makes it pretty obvious that it’s related to the picture covering the page, of Cheryl Cole. The last line contains just one word, written is very big red writing; ‘Rocks’. This is insinuating that the magazine has an article or double page spread inside about how much Cheryl Cole ‘rocks’. Any fans of Cheryl Cole will see this and most likely buy the magazine just to find out about Cheryl Cole and why she ‘rocks’ so much. In the top right area of the page, there is an underlined sub title, which reads ‘2010 previewed’. It then goes on to explain in the same format; ‘introducing the 10 best new acts’ then another, smaller sub title which says ‘New Interviews; The White Stripes; Courtesy Love; U2; Paul Weller; Biffy Clyro and… a Hamster’. This is all pretty self explanatory, that there is going to be articles inside analysing their 10 favourite new acts, followed by interviews with all of the bands named above and probably something to do with a hamster. Below this is a grey circle, with the following written inside ‘John Lennon’s lost weekend, the untold story and the unseen pics’. This is pointing out that inside there will be an article or interview about John Lennon and something he did over one weekend. This will obviously attract any John Lennon fans and make them intrigued about what he has done and the pictures of him. Finally, on the left side of the page, there is six block printed lines all in the same format. The first is in red block print and says ‘Them Crooked Vultures’. The next one says ‘Vampire Weekend’ and is in white block print. The next says ‘Muse’ and is in white block print too, followed by ‘John Mayer’, ‘Midlake’ and ’50 cent & more’. All of these lines obviously mean that these are the things that will be inside the magazine with either articles, pictures or interviews on them.