Magazine Front Cover Analysis

This magazine is a mainstream music magazine named Q. From looking at the front cover you can tell that the articles inside the magazines are going to be based on music quite primarily this is seen through the use of the puffs such as Nike Minaj and Artic monkeys both are music artistes so we infer that this magazine has articles based around music. The central image is using direct address to address the reader this creates the effect as if the person in the central image is actually looking at the reader and wants to get to know them and know what he is all about. The person on the front cover of this magazine is leader of the Foo fighters Dave Grohl. He is on the front cover in because he is the one who brought fame back to rock music and got the general population rocking back to heavy metal and rock.

 

The target audience for this magazine are ages 17 and over who listen to music on a regular basis and want to find out all about the many music artists in the world and the genre of music they play. The target audience may also be people who want to find out about how music artists live, there latest tracks or albums and maybe even their personal life and how they started out as an artist.

 

The anchorage text says “this will kill me foo fighters Dave Grohl saves rock again.” This implies that almost automatically that this artist is a heavy metal artist which is seen through the quote “this will kill me” the word kill in music is almost always linked to heavy metal music. This is implies that Dave Grohl is a hero in the world of rock and heavy metal music which we implied through the sentence Dave Grohl saves rock again” the words saves rock imply that he is a saviour in the world of rock. The overall message that the artist is giving from the image of him is that he screams as loud as hell when he’s singing seen through the flames that are shown spewing from his mouth.

 

This magazine represents the band the artic monkeys via puffs on the front cover telling the readers that there is an article in the magazine about the artic monkeys that could also attract readers to turn to that page specifically and read it. There is only one buzzword in this magazine front cover the buzzword used here is FREE this is used to attract readers to the offer and peek there interest in the rest of the magazine.

 

The design of the title block tells me that this magazine is quite professional. This is because the font and design of the title is placed and altered very specifically and articulately that we get a feeling of professionalism from this magazines creators. The title of the magazine itself doesn’t really tell you much about the magazine so we can only infer the genre via the features on the page.

 

The title doesn’t really tell you about the image of the style of the magazines mainly because the magazines title is just a simple letter Q.

 

The slogan of Q magazine is “discover great music” this slogan tells me that this magazine contains not only musical content about one genre but a lot of musical content about many different genres that tell also tells us that this magazine is not biased to one particular type of genre of music because this magazine allows you to discover all different types of genre of music all in one magazine. This could attract readers because the magazine really sets itself apart from all the other genre biased music magazines out there and gives the reader one magazine centred around all genres of music.

 

The puffs suggests that there will be a lot of content about music and artists as well as musicians and their personal as well as professional lives with other artists.

 

The magazine does not use any strategies besides a large central image and the use of buzz words in order to attract attention of passer-by’s.