1. MODEL CREDIT –”The New God Mc”This choice of words interreges
the audience and makes them
interesting in the articles to
come. The bright colour of the
red font also helps to draw
attention to the model credit.
TYPEFACES - San serif fonts used
for the masthead, cover lines and
all other text. The use of this
text gives the magazine an overall
simplistic look, without
overcomplicating anything,
MASTHEAD – large, bold font. Bold
colour red, letters fade towards
bottom. Placed over the top of
the featured artist. The way the
masthead fades ensures that it is
still visible to the audience but
does not attract too much
attention away from the featuring
artist.
MAIN IMAGE – Main image situated
in the centre of the
magazine, Dressed in all
white, makes the model stand out
and draws attention to him. He
is giving the camera direct
address by looking directly into
the camera making the audience
feel connected with the cover,
COLOUR – Colours used include
red, white, grey and black. Red
suggests danger and rebellion
towards the audience, making it
more appealing and draws the
audiences attention. The white
background also helps to emphasise
the coverlines and featured
artists and does not draw
attention away from the focus of
the magazine,
MAIN COVER LINE -Kendrick
Lamar” - Bold, black font
stands out against the white
background. Makes the audience
aware of who is featured in
the magazine.
COVERLINES – “The Big List
Issue”, a smaller size compared
to the featured artist but is
still clear and easy to read.
The coverlines show us exactly
what is going o be featured
HOUSE STYLE – the colour scheme used is consistent,
featuring red, white and black, The main image also fits
in with this colour scheme as the featured artist is
wearing a white shirt. The sans serif font style is also
used consistently on the cover.
PHOTOGRAPHY LIGHTING –
High key lighting has ben used to
take the cover photograph for this
magazine to make the featured
artist stand out and look more
appealing towards the
reader, influencing them to want
to purchase the magazine. Gender
has been represented within the
mise en scene of this image
through the use of gold jewellery
and a gold watch – this signifies
that the featured artist is
wealthy and a dominant
male, therefore creating an gender
DESIGN PRINCIPLES USEDrepresentation design principle
The Gutenberg on the cover,
has been taken into
consideration wen designing the
layout of this magazine as
proven from the mas head
appearing across the primary
optical area and the strong
fallow area, also from the bar
code being situated in the weak
fallow area, and most of the
cover lines along the left side

2. MASTHEAD – Large letter Q
situated in the primary optical
area. It is easily visible
against the right red square
behind it and is easily
identified to the audience. In
the position it is in, it
attracts just enough attention,
yet does not overpower the image
with its boldness.
MAIN IMAGE - Close up of models
face and hands situated in the
middle of the cover. The
featured artist stands out with
her pale skin against her
brightly coloured hair, which is
contrasted by her pale blue
make-up.
MODEL CREDIT – “Woman on the
edge”, choice of words
intrigues the reader and
appeals to them, making them
more likely to purchase it as
they want to find out all about
the woman on the edge. The use
of use of white font colour
makes the text stand out
against the featured artists
COVERLINES The coverlines
bright hair–colour.
such as “16-page Gig blow
out!” and “Motely Crue”
makes the audience easily award
of what is featured within the
aware of what is featured
within the magazine and the
white font makes the text easy
MAIN COVER LINE – FLORENCE is situated in
to read.
the strong fallow area – the bold sans
serif font makes the main cover line easy
and clear to read. It also grabs the
readers attention – it tells the audience
clearly who is featured within tis issue
COLOUR Red, blue, white, orange. Light
blue used on to of the models
bright orange hair colour
contrasts and draws attention.
The contrast of the pale blue
against the orange hair makes
aspects of the text stand out
TYPEFACES catches serif font used
well and – Sans the audiences
for most the text besides the
eye.
masthead caption and model
quote, where a serif font is
used. The use of the simple sans
serif font styles give the
magazine a simplistic look. The
detail of the serif font f the
quoted coverline “I feel so
alone” draws attention towards
this quote and intrigues the
reader – influencing them to
want to purchase tis magazine
PHOTOGRAPHY LIGHTING - the story.
and read further into
HOUSE STYLE – White font, red white and blue
colour scheme. A san serif font style is
consistent. Q Magazine always features the
masthead in the top left hand corner to keep the
consistency. The colours used compliment each
other well.
DESIGN PRINCIPLES USED- The
Gutenberg design principle has
been took into consideration
when designing the layout of
this magazine as the masthead
and main coverline feature in e
primary optical area and strong
fallow area. However, lots of
information has been placed
around the weak fallow
area, going against the

3. COLOUR -
MASTHEAD -
TYPEFACES MAIN IMAGE -
PHOTOGRAPHY LIGHTING MODEL CREDIT -
COVERLINES -
MAIN COVER LINE -
DESIGN PRINCIPLES USED-
HOUSE STYLE -