The magazine cover features Tyler, The Creator dressed in women's clothing holding flowers, alluding to the magazine's focus on rebellion against traditional norms. The price of £2.40 suggests the magazine targets working and middle class youth. Bold red and black colors and rebellious language portray an anti-authority stance aimed at 15-25 year olds. Images of rock bands and articles on music and the music business indicate the magazine covers rock music and associated topics for fans across genres.

1. Magazine Cover Analysis

2. The Masthead is in red and a
recognisable font which is san serrif
that people already associate with
magazine. In the splash image
the subject is covering up some of the
masthead, this shows how important
the character on the front could be
and how the magazine is so well
established they don’t even have to
show the whole title for people to
know what it is.
The price of the magazine is shows what sort of class this
magazine could be aimed at, as you can see it costs £2.40,
which is actually quite cheap for a magazine, which shows
that it may be aimed at working/middle class people and
maybe younger people as they may not be making so
much money they can afford it at this cheap price
As you can see from the language used
on the front of the magazine where it
says “
” and “
” this is quite rebellious language
with context to what it is talking about
as it is the royal wedding, this shows
that the subject on the splash image
could be quite rebellious. Meaning
that his target audience might be to,
this tends to be people of the age
range 15-25.
The colours predominantly used
throughout the magazine are red
white and black, connotations with the
colour red is danger and bad things,
whereas there is a direct contrast with
the colours white as the colour white
has connotations to purity and angelic
things. And black may be used just
because it is a good contrast with the
white background.
The subject in the splash image is
Tyler, The Creator. He is the leader of
the hip hop collective that is ODD
FUTURE, which is slightly odd that
they have got him on the front of this
magazine as
is predominantly a
rock magazine. They may have done
this to attract a wider audience then
just rock fans and tried to et some him
hop fans too. The have more ties to
hip hop on the cover of this magazine,
as they have Kanye West’s name at the
bottom, showing that this issue of the
magazine will be including things from
Kanye West too as well as Tyler, The
Creator.
The subject in the splash image was
shot in a studio which shows that he
may be important. The way they have
presented him is in a very
unhegamonic masculine view, they
have him in a dress carrying flowers.
This is because it is the Royal wedding
special edition. They may also have
him dressed like that to fit a certain
character that he may be presenting .
A plug for a chance to win free festival tickets and to
get a free festival guide are to entice readers to get it so
they can win what is on offer.
The strap along the top in the gold
border is reinforcing the anti authority
view that the magazine is trying to
produce, as it is going against what
they thing people will be saying, they
thing people will be wanting to enjoy
the royal wedding whereas the people
at
want saving from it and then
so should their audiance

3. The masthead that just says Q is in the
top left of the magazine so even if
stacked people will be able to find it as it
is such a recognisable font and colour
people will know what it is straight away.
It is red and white so it stands out and it
has associated itself with this colour so
people know what magazine it is
because they have established these
colours with their brand so it is
recognisable.
This magazine uses a banner along the top in
reference to the “Manic Street Preachers”. It is
talking about a 17 page special on them, and it
shows the cover of the special in the top right
corner, this could be being used to try and get
more people to buy the magazine, for instance
people who are fans of the Manic Street Preachers.
In the splash image which has the arctic
monkeys as the main focus, the man in
the middle of them all at the front is
giving a direct address to the audience,
this shows that the one giving the direct
address may be the most important out
of the whole band. But they have been
in a photo shoot in a studio which
shows that they are all important
people.
It has an interesting cover story about
the interview with the band “Arctic
Monkeys” is included on the front to
show the audience what they might
expect, this could also be used to entice
the reader into wanting to read it. Also
the words “Arctic Monkeys” are in white,
this could have been done to represent
the arctic so you can make connections
between words and colours. This has
also been done for the words “White
Lies” it is written in white also to help
you make connection.
Colours predominantly used in this magazine are
ones that represent the company that is the Q
magazine. The colours used are red, white and
grey. Red is a colour that could represents love
and compassion and the company may be using
the colour red to try and show their readers that
they love and are compassionate towards them
for buying the magazine, red is also quite a nice
warm colour so it could be used to entice the
reader. White shows purity and trust and good
things, the company may have used the colour
white to show the reader that they can trust Q to
be good quality and have all the good
information.
One of the cover line son the side says “On
beards, booze & baking cakes for muse”. These
are all very masculine things. This shows that the
magazine may be mainly aimed at men rather
than women. You can also see it mentioning
Richard Branson, who is a very successful
businessman. This shows that the magazine may
not only be a music magazine but be talking
about the music business too.
The price of Q magazine is around £3.50 and
it comes out monthly, I think this is a very
reasonable price. It also shows that it may be
aimed at middle/working class people as it
does not cost a lot.
I believe that the audience that this target aims
for is for people that like rock, but not hard core
rock, more calm rock. The reason I think this is
because the arctic monkeys music is very mellow
and calm. But it also has references to Nirvana
and Green Day, this music is a lot harder rock than
Arctic monkeys, which shows that there may be
aspects of rock for everyone in the magazine to
appeal to a wider audience and please more
people with the same magazine.

4. As you can see from the masthead font
it is in big, bold writing with black
against white so you can easily make it
out. The masthead may represent its
audience as it is very sharp and black
and different, it is quite metallic which
may represent the genre as it is a metal
magazine. The people in the splash
image are covering up the masthead,
this shows that they may be very
important so they can cover up the title
of the magazine, or that the magazine is
so well known that they don’t even have
to show their full title for people to
know who they are through colour
schemes and fonts as they are such a
well established brand.
As you can see in the splash image all of
the people from the band look like
violent people, as they have weapons
and are dressed in black, which has
connotations to death and just bad
things. This point is backed up by what it
says in the cover line using anchorage
“Sex. Drugs. Violence AVENGE
SEVENFOLD The worlds most dangerous
band” They have created an image for
themselves being dangerous with their
weapon by the way they look. This
probably appeals to their audience, as
they may listen to it because it is
rebellious. This says to me that the
target audience is probably from ages
15-25 as this can be quite a rebellious
stage.
Advertisement is used in a banner across the top of
the magazine to advertise other metal bands such
as iron maiden. This reinforces my point about this
magazine being a different class of rock to what is
in Q as it is harder rock (metal).
Colour schemes that have been used on this
magazine cover are predominantly black,
yellow, white and red. These could all be
used as they are quite stand out colours and
work well against the backgrounds that are
used. I believe black is used quite a lot to
appeal to the magazines audience and
stereotypically metal heads dress in black
and like the colour black, because of it
representations and they may want to be
recognised for the music they like.
As you can see in the splash image I think
that they are tying to assert their
dominance. The cover is very male
dominated, as there are 5 males and no
women. They are using phallic imagery to
assert their male dominance as they come
off more manly and scary when they do
that. They all seem to be making a direct
address to the audience, this may be to try
and intimidate people or scare them. This
could also be used to make the reader feel
more involved.
They have free stuff on offer in the magazine to try
and attract readers to want to buy it more, as it is
probably a band they enjoy as this is mostly a metal
music magazine. This magazine may be aimer at
middle to working class as it only costs £1.99.
I think that the genre of this this magazine is
hard rock. You can see this because it says
things such as “how to survive rock ‘N’ roll”
this shows that it is something that could
possibly kill you, which must mean that it is
dangerous. The last magazine cover I
analysed was a rock magazine, but nothing
like this one, you can see straight off that this
magazine is a lot more hard core than the
last one, this shows the audience will be a
set of very different people.