The magazine cover features a striking mid-shot photo of artist Lily Allen staring directly at the viewer, looking powerful and confident. The title "SPIN" is in large capital letters with a red border to make it stand out against the gold background. The cover is designed to appeal to both younger and older audiences by including articles on other artists like Snow Patrol and Living Things.

1. • There is the dominant image on the front cover, it is lily
Allen a popular artist. This shows she's the main focus of
the magazine the picture is striking and looks like she's
staring right back at you.
• The way she is stood makes her look powerful, and very
confident owning the cover.
• The title is in caps, this is to make it stand out
immediately, and remind the audience the name of it
being “SPIN” the red around the heading makes it look a
lot more attractive.
• There's other artists such snow patrol and living
things, which is also aimed at younger and also older
adults. Showing the magazine appeals to a wilder
audience.
• Although the text is behind her it looks very affective, in
bold and black and stands out strongly against the gold
background.
• because there is a lot of things that are black, such as
her hair short and writing the use of colour can be used
anyway to make it more appealing.
• They have used a mid-shot of the artist to reveal her
confidents, and super slim body.(also costume closely)
• She stands sort of on a slant which relates to the title
(SPIN) making her look dizzy.
• The artist face isn't all cheesy, she's serious, and looks
right at the audience.
• The black and white sub heading stand clearly against
the background, this shows the audience what will be in
the magazines.

2. • Logo of the magazine Q Which is used in all the
magazines, helps the audience when looking to buy
the magazine, its straight away identifies it quickly
this has been printed in the main colours red and
white.
• Big white bold text of the celebrities name, if the
reader likes the celeb they are more likely to buy the
magazine. Knowing there's an article of them inside.
• Dominate image of the celeb(kate bush) you see a
close up of her face to draw the audience’s
attention. (Looks as if she is looking straight at you
with sparkling brown eyes)
• two colours have been used right through the
magazine, red and white. This also draws audience
attention in.
• “1 out 20 special covers to collect” in a red circle, to
stand out as everything else is in white and the
background being black, audience cant miss it.
• The background is fully black, but the celeb wears
black too which make it even more darker, also she
covers most of the background, as she is in a close up
shot.
• You see a really good shot of her pale, natural face
and her innocent facial expression.
• There’s a gold border round the page, which brings
everything in.