Front page
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The front cover is the most important part of a magazine, its is what attracts the audience into buying the product. Q magazine is a monthly issue magazine and usually comes with a range of promotional products inside, and is aimed at an older audience as most of the material inside is quite explicit. The masthead of Q magazine, is places to the top left hand side of the magazine, the masthead is usually short, to ensure that the audience memorise the name of the magazine. The main image displays the lead singer of the well-known bands "Muse", smasking his guitar against the masthead. This creates the genre of the magazine, which is rock, smashing the guitar against the masthead creates the rock star image, which appeals to a particular reader. Although Q doesnt have a fixed genre, it tends to have a monthly theme, as you can tell by the genre of the band the theme of the magazine is Rock. This also links in with the anchorage, "Matt Bellamy is out of control" which is situated below the name of the band. There are thumbnails of other important articles, which feature in the magazine, however they also relate to the theme of the magazine which is Rock. The thumbnail on this front cover displays the band, "The Beatles" the biggest well known bands of the 60's this will intrigue the fans of "The Beatles". Because the Beatles, is an older band, an older more mature audience will be able to relate to the article. The slogan is situated at the top of the magazine, it has to be catchy and slow to create ensure that the audience keep buying the magazine. The house style that is seen, in many issues of Q magazine, is used in this issue. The clothes that Matt Bellamy is wearing links in with the magazine, as the colour are the same, he also seems to be wearing black eye liner which creates a sense of gothic rock. The colour red tends to connotate anger, the fact that Q are trying to create a rockstar thats gone out of control effectively links in with the continous house style. The price, is situated on the barcode. The barcode is big, which ensures people to know how much the magazine costs. Teasing contents which is situated at the right hand side of the page, is used to persuade the audience into buying the magazine. It also gives the audience an insight to the type of articles that are featured in the magazine, without having to turn the page over and look on the contents page.
Institution:
The institution for this magazine is the producers of Q magazine, the genre of this magazine is a controversial one, it has no set genre and varies over the months. For this issue of Q magazine the genre is rock, whilst next months genre could change to pop. Having a music variety doesn’t also distinguish what Q stands for; it also helps a variety of different target audience as the magazine doesn’t have just one genre. Distributing a magazine is reasonably easy and it’s an effective way of selling bands to the audience. Q tends to put well known bands or music producers who are liked by a variety of people, this is very effective as more people will want to buy the product because they may want to know interesting facts about bands and producers like Simon Cowell.
Ideology:
The ideology of the magazine is music and business. The ideology also varies like the genre as when the magazine is displaying all the different bands the ideology changes due to the style of the band. The ideology for this particular edition of the Q magazine is rock. The ideology of using Muse on the front cover brings a stereotypical rock band to the magazine, as Muse is all about Rock the fact that the article features a rebel side to Matt, this may encourage more people to become Fans of Muse.
Audience:
Like ideology the audience for this magazine varies greatly, the audience tends to be based on the genre of the magazine. For this edition the Audience may be rock bands, alternative rock and people who are fans of the well-known band Muse. There is no set gender for this magazine, the magazine is based on both sexes and will appeal to both female and male. In my opinion I think that using a mixed audience is very effective as the magazine will not appeal to one group but will attract nearly everyone.
Representation:
The representation for this magazine is a positive one as well as having a stereotypical feel. The exciting view that is seen in this magazine is Rock star gone bad. A rebelious rock star creates a huge amount of excitement, as well as people talking about the article and the magazine causing more people to buy the product. The stereotypical side of this magazine is that of a Rock bands, people who are usually rebellious and tend to be outragiously exciting the anchorage "Matt Bellamy is out of control" supports this hypothesis. The genre of the magazine represents all of the audience, the genre is a controversial one. The reason why this represents the audience is due to the fast amount of different people who buy the product making the magazine more and more successful.
Contents Page
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The main image on this contents page displays the main band that is going to be featured in this particular issue of Q magazine. The picture of the band is in a low angle long shot, so you are able to determine what they are wearing. The clothes the men are wearing links with the genre of Rock, as they are wearing dark and not so stylish clothes. Because the picture is in low angle, you are able to determine that they are the ones in control, as the they are the main protagonists in this magazine. The page title is situated at the top of the page, alongside the logo of Q magazine. This is also alongside the date and the issue of the magazine, which ensures the reader that the magazine is not out of date, therefore all the information inside is reliable. The title is in block capitals, and is the biggest piece of text on the page, therefore standing out to the audience in a prominant way. this helps to enhance the excitement of the articles that are featured in the magazine, by ensuring the reader that the magazine and the context inside is exciting. The quotation that is under the name of the artists gives the audience an insight to what the article is about. Thus meaning that the audience may be abliged to read more of the article. The language techniques that are used are vastly engaging to the audience 'Liam Frays mum hits nail on the head' is greatly effective, as explained above it encourages the audience to read on as it creates humor. The features section is in the left hand side of the page,the features section displays a range of information which helps to organise what articles features where. This helps to keep a professional and orderly fashion to the magazine, which maintains an upper-class audience as well as a more immature audience. Page numbers are highly important as they link in with the previous point of maintaining an orderly and professional manner,as well as helping the audience to indicate what pages each article are on. A continous colour scheme of red, black and white are used throughout Q, the significance of this, is that it maintains a continous house style, to which the audience can relate to. The colour scheme, creates the genre of the magazine, as red is particulary related to Sex, whilst the colours black and white relate to the music genre of rock and roll. This therefore links to the band Oasis, as they are a rock widely associated rock band who relate to the youth of today, as they are obsessed with Sex, and rock and roll.
Double page spread
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To begin with the large red "C" which covers one page of the double page spread, is hugly effective as it links to the artist that is featured on the page. The large "C" tells us that the article is all about Cheryl Cole, who is a massive solo artist, who used to be in one of the biggest girl bands in the World. The huge "C" is very indulging, and is an eye catcher meaning that it will attract many people into reading the article. This is often used on Q double page spreads as it is a clear and effective way of ensuring that the audience will read the article, it will also persuade more people into buying the product. There are two seperate images of Cheryl, firstly showing her sexy side, but also showing her rebellious but also fun side. This is a popular technique that Q use, as it shows a split personality to an artist therefore making the audience believe that there is more to the person that we believe. This is effective as it also therefore encourages the audience to read the article, as the images draw the reader in. The article itself is written in 3 seperate columns, using a clear and precise font, will ensure itc is easy to read. There is no introduction to this article, however it does have a highlighted quote that has been taken from the article, this is also in Red linking it to the huge "C" which links to Cherly, meaning that the article is completely about Cheryl. The name of the artist is situated at the top of the article, the text has a clear large font, which shows that Cheryl is the main protagonist of this article.
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