Q magazine is published by Bauer Media Group, a large German publishing company that operates in 15 countries. Bauer Media produces Q magazine, as well as radio and TV stations. Q magazine was first published in 1986 and focuses on music through high quality photography and printing. It has since expanded into radio and TV under the Q brand. Bauer Media uses a cross-media approach to target various age groups and audiences to increase popularity and viewership across its various music-focused television channels.

2. Q magazine is published by Bauer Media Group which is a large German publishing
company, that operates in 15 countries worldwide, as well as TV and radio stations.
They produce 38 million magazines a week. Q was first published in 1986, setting
itself apart from other music press with monthly production and high standard of
photography and printing and also emphasising on style.
The Q music brand has expanded to Radio and Television, with Q Radio and Q TV
being music entertainment that specialises in indie, rock ect.
Bauer Media is a cross media target group which means that it works with different age
and variety of people, which is good for company as it expands the companies
popularity and lead to more audience. Bauer media television acts as the content
subsidiary which produces many popular music ,television channels such as:
 Q TV
 4Music TV
 Kiss TV
 Kerrang! TV
 The Box TV
 Magic TV
 Smash Hits TV

3.  •What type of photograph is on the front cover? It is a photograph of
three celebrities
 •It is a close up, medium shot or long shot? The shot is been taken as
medium/ long
 •Discuss the composition of the image. The photograph taken of Jay Z
is taken looking up to him, which shows that he has a high status and
to represent rap music, he is in front of the other two celebrities (Lady
Gaga and David Grohl). The image of Lady Gaga and David Grohl is
taken straight at them. The image is also been place more on the right
side of the page so that when it is been over lapped by another
magazine the customer can spot the magazine.
 •Why is the image on the front cover important? The image on the front
cover is important because it shows who the magazine is going to talk
about inside and also to attract the attention of the customers as the go
by if they like any of these three celebrities.
 •How does the image attract the audience? All three of them seem to
be looking directly at you, which make the audience wonder what the
magazine has to tell about them as well as they are all wearing black
which works together even though they haven’t taken the picture
together and it makes it stand out as it has been put on top of white
background.

4.  How do we know what is inside the magazine? The subheadings on the left side of the magazine and bottom
right
 •How is information arranged on the front cover? The subheadings that show who and what is going to be in the
magazine is been put on the side of the left side of the magazine and on the bottom right. The magazine has
used different sizes of text, putting the name of the three celebrities larger and in orange to make it stand out
more and then in smaller black writing
 •Why has this information been arranged like this? To attract audiences attention more
 •What colours have been used on the front cover? The magazine has used red, black, and white, orange
 •Why have these colours been used? Red, black and white are usually the colours that represent rock music and
are also very noticeable colours that would attract audience’s attention.
 •Are there any iconic signs? Yes
 •What are they? The three celebrities are used as iconic signs to represent the type of music they make and the
colours red black and white which shows more of rock music.
 •What colour is the masthead? Red and white
 •Is this significant? Yes as it is the two colours that are always used in Q magazine
 •What type of font is used? Arial
 •Why do you think this font has been chosen? Mid aged adults are more likely to read this magazine so they used
simpler font.
 •Is there a website for the magazine referred to? Yes
 •Why do you think this is? So more customers can read it and pay less
 •How much is the magazine? £3.99
 •Where are we told how much it is? Bar code on the bottom left side in this particular magazine
 •What representational issues can you identify (e.g. gender, stereotype, positive/negative, mediation gender is
been used in Q magazine by using two male celebrities and a women which isn’t fully cover so it can attract more
men.
 •How is language targeting the audience? They use informal language, and the way the audience would usually
talk.
 •Who is producing this magazine? Bauer Media Group

5.  There are 166 pages in the Q magazine
 40 pages in the magazine are just advertisements
 And 126 pages which are just editorial produced by the Q magazine
itself
 64 of those page are just editorial images and 62 pages are editorial
copy
 The price of the Q magazine is £3.99 and the price of Mojo is £4.50,
mojo might be more expensive because of the CD they are giving out
with the magazine and the amount of the advertisement in the
magazine.
 Out of the all the imagery used in the magazine 44 are original and
115 are from photo libraries

6. •3/ 4 of the whole
magazine is original.
•Getting 1/4 of the
copy from other
magazines or
newspapers the
production cost
would have gone
higher to cover the
cost of getting the
copy from them.

7. •Q MAGAZINE HAS HIGH
QUALITY GLOSSY PAPER.
•WITH MANY COLOURS ON
THE COVER AND INSIDE
.
•THE BETTER THE QUALITY
PAPER OR REPRODUCTION
USED IN THE MAGZINE
WOULD INCREASE THE
COSTS TO PRODUCE, WHICH
SHOWS WHY THE Q
MAGAZINE IS £3.99

8. •The images that Q magazines uses
are of the product itself or the artist
that made the album or going to be
at the concert
•The magazine uses simple informal
language.

9. •The magazine is aimed for
young people who like pop,
RnB, rock music
•Using simple informal
language would make it
easier to go through and read
it daily

10. •The magazine is aimed for
young people who like pop,
RnB, rock music
•Using simple informal
language would make it
easier to go through and read
it daily