The music magazine cover I have chosen to analyse is called “Q”. This magazine focuses more on most recent or popular bands and musicians, rather than a pacific genre. Therefore, the age range will also vary between 16-40 year olds (possibly even wider). However, for this pacific magazine cover, I believe it focuses on rock music.
The masthead on this magazine is simply “Q”, which is positioned in the top left of the magazine cover. It is a white, sharp font on top of a red background. The font colour and style helps give it a modern look and also helps make it stand out.
The main coverline for this magazine cover would be “WORLD EXCLUSIVE! COLDPLAY Four months of fear, tantrums and nudity”. This coverline is much larger then over coverlines, which shows it is the main coverline. Also, we can tell it is the main coverline because it is accompanied by an image of the band, Coldplay, showing its level of importance in the magazine. The font colour for this coverline is white; however, the part which reads “COLDPLAY” is yellow. This helps make the name of the band stand out from the rest. Also, it is the topic of discussion, which means it will help draw the attention of Coldplay fans regardless of what it is actually about.
The coverlines would be “MADE IN HELL! The 10 craziest rock couples” and “BLOC PARTY Young, hot... and glum”. Both have the same font and roughly the same size. The colours of these fonts are the opposite of the title and main coverline. These fonts are infact black. Both accompanied by a small image relating to the subject.
The barcode is found in the bottom right hand side of the cover; keeping it out of sight for the audience because it is irrelevant to selling the magazine. The issue number, date and price are located above and below the title of the magazine. The font is extremely small which shows the magazine designer did not want it to take up much room on the cover. Also, they did not want the reader the pay any attention to the price.
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