The magazine cover focuses on featuring pop artist Lady Gaga prominently using a greyscale color scheme with red accents to draw attention. Lady Gaga's unusual costume references iconic characters and suggests a sexual image to appeal to her young female fan base. The busy layout with varied fonts creates a stylized appearance.

1. Main Focus in on the
Genre- Music, Analysis of a Magazine picture of Lady Gaga- she
namely pop, is the is the thing that the
genre of Q
magazine, which is
Cover magazine wants people to
notice on first glance.
also clear from the
artists names
featured on the front.
The cover is
mostly in There are a number of
greyscale, and different fonts used on
the only colour this cover, which creates
featured is red- a ‘busy’ appearance for
this is consistent the cover, and also
between all makes it look much
issues of Q more stylised.
magazine.
The way Lady Gaga is
dressed is reminiscent of Audience- By featuring
a number of iconic Lady Gaga, the main
people- i.e. Edward audience will be that of
Scissorhands, and her fans, most of whom
perhaps, the Grinch. are young (teens/young
Also, the fact that she is adults), and mostly
missing seemingly female due to her
essential items of fashion icon status.
clothing, suggest a very
sexual image.