This document provides a summary of a magazine article about musician Ed Sheeran. The summary is in 3 sentences: The article discusses a photo spread of Ed Sheeran casually leaning against a wall in London with his guitar, promoting his new album. It uses pull quotes and captions to draw attention to details about Sheeran and generate reader interest. The layout employs a traditional magazine format with columns of text, page numbers, and color coordination to link all elements together visually.

4. This is known as the drop cap its very important in a
magazine not just a music magazine but any
magazine because its where the article starts and lets
the reader know. It also stands out a lot as its big and
bold and got a large font so it can grab the readers
attention. Furthermore they have carried on the colour
scheme throughout of the magazine as the Q
magazine main colour is red so it links bank to the
magazine.

5. This is a subheading but put into a pull quote, they have used a bit of humour in it as they
have related it to Ed Sheeran as his hair is known as the ‘ginger one’ and it links to music
because its saying he is bringing his music back and it can interact with the audience. It also
informs the reader what's going on and can also suggest that this quote could be linked in with
the article. Furthermore the quote is placed over the main image and is in big red and white
letters which connotes the English flash and these two colours go well together but also linking
back to the main Q magazine colour scheme. You can see the fonts are different sizes to
attract the audience the most especially the “I'm” and “back” which is what first grabs the
audiences eye. You can see that they have put the word ginger in a red colour which is a close
colour to ginger and links to the occasional colours on the article. Also it can relate to another
music artist Justin Timberlake as one of his lyrics in his song was “I’m bringing sexy back”
which the audience can relate too.
In the lead in it says “He’s the honey voice songwriter” which suggest he’s the sweet boy who
sings and writes songs as some people refer to Ed Sheeran as ‘cute’, also in the sentence it
says “and breaking hearts” which connotes that he is breaking peoples hearts but in a good
way because of his music being so amazing and the real life song lyrics he writes as many
genre types enjoy Ed Sheeran’s type of music he has a very wide range of audiences. Another
lead in is the question “what's the sudden secret of Ed Sheerans success” which questions
the audiences on what is Ed Sheerans success so it gets the audience to read on more to
know why.

6. This double page article was written in September 2011 and
since then it has became a very popular and successful
magazine. The page numbers and normally always in the
bottom hand corners they don’t stand out that much but they
are big enough to see what page you’re on the page numbers
are written in white so it fits well with the black background.

7. The main image on this article is of
the songwriter Ed Sheeran. He is the
main focus of the image despite the
London background. He has got his
hands in his jeans pockets and is
slouches against a wall which is a
very casual and laidback position as it
creates a serious theme to the article.
Also its quite formal as his guitar is
propped up next to him on the wall
which emphasizes the formality of the
article and image itself. His facial
expression is fairly serious as he is
looking away from the camera and
staring in mid air this creates a more
thoughtful image. Ed Sheerans hair
stands out as his ginger hair stands
outs against the blue sky background
this is a focal point for the magazine
and image. Its also a connection to
form between the image and the main
sell- line.
Background:
The background image is of London which is a very
busy background as our eyes have more to look at in
the picture and less taken from the artist. Especially the
famous landmark Big Ben. The landscape image of
London will appeal to its audience because its very
iconic. The background has contrasted its colours with
Ed Sheeran so it blends the image and background to
create a more level of colour.

8. The title of the article is called ‘The Hot list’ the
word ‘red’ is in the colour red which connotes
fire and passion whilst the other word ‘list’ is in
a much darker colour. The text is all the same
size with the same font and is on a white
background which is a good colour to put the
text on because otherwise it wouldn’t stand
out as much. The text is also split between
two columns which makes it more like a real
life magazine and is a much neater way of
putting the layout. In the middle of the
magazine is a lowdown which is a few facts
about Ed Sheeran but in this article its talking
on his new up to date album he is releasing, it
goes on to talk about the release date, the
producers and what the album is featuring.
this attracts the audience as it gets them to
interact with the magazine and with others
around them as they could go and talk about
his new album and buy it.

9. This is a caption next to the
main image on the article
which is Ed Sheeran, they
tend to have these on all kind
of magazines to the reader
can know who the person is as
it will normally say their name
in a caption box and a little
about them or where there are
or what they’re doing.