2. Front cover
• Smart, minimalistic
• Professional looking photo
• Promotes ‘good’ image as opposed to sexual
representation
• Distinct house style – red colour scheme,
colouring of font (emphasises subtitles)
• Photo blends into colour scheme – not trying to
display model too much
3. Contents Page
• Vibrant colours
• More pictures than words
• Everything is straight and in-line
• Not much text – assumes short attention span of readers
• Same house style as cover – fonts, colours
• Long editor’s letter – has entire page – suggests mag has
a lot to tell readers, informative
• Q logo is everywhere – self promotion
4. Contents Page
• Lots of information – helpful
• Male dominated photos
• Advertising themselves
• Direct language in text
• Text on editor’s page is smaller than main contents page –
suggests articles are more important, not supposed to grab
readers’ attention as much
• White background continues minimalistic theme – as opposed
to rock magazines e.g Kerrang! where background is black to
made pages look hectic and crowded
5. Double Page Article – ‘Sex, Drugs,
Rock & Roll… And A Hitman’
• House style – same colour scheme
• Everything’s straight again – continues minimalistic theme
• Logo features again
• Pull quote and photo of member being arrested – shock factor, quote makes humour of photo
• Group name (AC/DC) is highlighted – emphasises well known group
• Photo – members clothes, each portraying different generation – making joke, attention catching
• Formal language, not colloquialised – suggests older audience (makes fans/readers feel unequal to band and mag)
• Lots of swearing in quotes suggests older audience – accepting swearing, not appropriate for young children
• Only mention of women in article is ‘prostitutes’ – gives a derogatory name to women
• Not as formal and smart as front cover
• Lots of text assumes older, knowledgeable readers
6. Q Bits
• Image of spider gives masculine theme – probably not
aimed at women as stereotypically women are scared
of spiders
• Women are mentioned in text but never shown in
images
• Out of place, especially greyscale photo – doesn’t
match colourful theme of magazine
7. Double Page Article –
‘Back From The Brink’
• Similar to other article
• Lots of imagery
• Use of colloquialism, swearing and younger-looking photos aims at younger audience
than previous article
• Because he is younger, people want to see more images of him
• Lots of text but less than previous article
• Captions on photos help readers who arent fans of Jamie T understand article – older
men’s magazine but article aimed at younger people
• Attention grabbing headline introduces artist
• Headline and sub-headline tells story – more personal, attention seeking, readers want
to find out more, revelation
8. • One image appears raised and is tilted – discontinues
minimalistic theme, suggests he is young and
different, changing style of magazine to suit his style
– importance
• Title is bigger, shows importance
