Q Magazine AnalysisFRONT COVER

The artist’s megaphone is covering the Q logo which gives the impression that his opinion is more important

than that of brand of the magazine.

The colour scheme sticks to the conventional black, white and red.

The text is clean and simple, without any grunge or distorted fonts.

It's menu strip is the artists names at the bottom of the cover. They give a preview of what's in the magazine,

and makes fans of these artists, want to find out what's inside.

The masthead is written in a classical font which shows the high class, sophisticated

style of the magazine. It’s the largest text on the cover to show who the featured artist is.

The advert for a movie is styled like a sticker, and is yellow, contrasting to the

colour scheme, making it stand out from the rest of the cover.

This design of this label is of a retro banner, to advertise a separate guide

included with the magazine.

The Q logo is written in a serif font, to make the magazine look stylish and sophisticated. The contrasting white on red makes it easy

to distinguish between others.

A barcode and date line. A Common convention on a magazine which

allows a reader to purchase it.

These questions are used to directly ask the audience to see their opinions,

showing that the magazine cares about it’s readers.

Q Magazine AnalysisCONTENTS PGThe serif font used for the

word review gives off a stylish and classic look. This can hint at the hish

register writing style depicted within the

‘review’ article in the magazine. With Q’s current audience

popularity, this writing style is expected from

regular readers.

The contents title is kept very simplistic and plain.

This can be due to the readers already having prior

knowledge on what the contents page is. The

magazine can focus on the content of the page rather than making the title look

unnecessarily fancy.

Similar to the artists at the top of the page, this

artist is cut out of the image and overlap other images on the contents.

This also shows his higher prestige, but gives the impression that his

status is lower due to his low location on the page.

An advert to subscribe show’s the magazine’s

multi-modality and gives the audience an extra

feature to stay in touch with the magazine, even after they have read this

issue.

This text box is circular, in contrast to the other

square boxes, drawing the readers attention to

the text within it.

These artists are cut out of the image and overlap the ‘Contents’ title. This shows they’re

a featured band and seem to be of a higher importance than those embedded within a box.

Q Magazine AnalysisDOUBLE PAGEThe Q branding is kept

small so it doesn’t interfere with the article, but is large enough to still

have importance.

This ribbon effect portrays the

connotations of a celebration. This relates to Adam’s success and

the article succeeding it.

The effect on this image makes it seem as though it’s been stuck separately

on the page. This is visually appealing to the audience and gives the image some character.

This pull quote is in a separate red text box. It

uses a fairly comedic quote from the article to entice the reader to read

on through the article.

Due to this article being an interview, bold text is used to distinguish the

questions from the answers. This keeps the text clean and easy to read for the audience.

The title font is simplistic but bold, suggesting that

the artist named is of importance. The quote

above is in a thinner font which suggests it’s not as

important as the main title.

The main image fills a very large proportion of the page. This suggests that the artists visual

appearance is well known and once someone flicks to this page, they will instantly recognise him.

NME Magazine AnalysisFRONT COVER

The band members seem to be looking up towards the sky in this

image. This can portray that they’re looking towards the future and feel

proud of what they’re achieved so far.

The Reading/Leeds Festival logo also portrays the same feeling as the NME title. The whole front cover is designed to feature the festival as the main story. The a common convention of music magazines is that they sometimes modify their style so that the cover displays

the same style as the story they are featuring.

The NME magazine logo portrays a grungy rock feeling and relates to the magazine’s genre of Rock

and Indie music. This is designed to replicate the style of the Reading/Leeds Festival Logo.

This sticker includes the word FREE in a separate font colour than the rest of

the text. This draws the attention of the audience.

The cover features other artists names to get people intrigued. If they don’t like the main featured band but like a sub-band displayed on the cover, they

may think twice about putting the magazine down.

This title also matches the style of the Leeds/Reading Festival logo. The colours of White, Red, Black and Yellow match the common colour conventions of the standard music

magazine.

This image portrays the front man of the main cover band. This is shown by making him seem taller than the other

band members and by raising his microphone in the air, it gives him a

higher rank of prestige.

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This title caption for the article seems quite shocking when you read it for

the first time. This appeals to the reader and instantly makes them want

to know the full story.

An advert to subscribe gives the magazine’s audience an extra feature to become a regular reader after they

have read this issue. This can help NME by giving the company a larger

number of re-buyers.

The rest of the articles are displayed in a bulleted list and the numbers are listed in Bold to make them stand out from the titles. This makes it clear and

easy to read for the audience.

The overall style, including the masthead portrays a classical and simplistic feel. The

serif font helps to display this.

The main article is featured larger than the rest of the articles, and is

positioned in the centre of the page. This helps the reader to distinguish

the main focus of the magazine.

The layout of the page is very defined and uses thin line separators to

separate the content. This helps the reader to distinguish which caption

goes with each picture, making it clear to read. The majority of the page

space is taken up by images. Text is detailed but kept to a minimum so

that it draws the reader into turning the page and reading each individual

article to get the full story.

NME Magazine AnalysisDOUBLE PAGE

Smaller sized body text keeps the article looking

professional. Having a large body font can make a page look boring to the reader

and seem childlike.

The main title on this is page is very small. This

suggests that it is a continued page from the

main article page.

The same styled fonts are used throughout the

page to ensure it’s consistency.

The artists displayed in these text boxes are

smaller and are not as detailed. This gies the impression that they

aren’t as popular as the larger artists displayed

above.

The overlapping image shows that the artist shown

is prestigious and is more important towards the text displayed along side it. This

suggests he’s of a higher importance of those embedded as smaller

images within the text.

There is no central, large title on this page. Instead, smaller titles for each artist are used and all are the same weight and size. This displays that all the artists are of

equal importance and that there’s no specifically featured artist on the page.

SPIN Magazine AnalysisFRONT COVER

The main feature image was taken at a location in contrast to the common

convention of a studio. The background of the countryside makes the artists

seem natural and friendly. The instruments they’re holding show that

they’re a folk/alternative band.

The subtitle is written in a serif font, with italics. It’s smaller size suggests it’s not as

important as the main masthead but it serves to give a more in depth preview of

what’s to come inside the magazine.

The Buzz-Word ‘Featuring’ shows that there’s a variety of different artists rather

than just the cover artists.

The distribution company for the magazine is an American label called

RED. Due to the magazine being American, conventions displayed are slightly different, including there's no quotes from inside the magazine. The American stereotype of the British is

portrayed by putting them in the countryside, creating their profile as

being ‘Posh English Folk’.

This cover doesn’t feature any inside magazine quotes, and instead relies on

prior knowledge of the featured artists. If the audience didn’t know any of the artists names on the cover, due to there being no

headlines, inside stories are left to the readers intrigue.

A puff is placed above the logo to make the magazine seem important in the industry. ‘Special Edition’ also makes the magazine seem as if it’s rare and needs to be read.

The magazine logo ‘SPIN’ is being covered by the artists which makes them

seem more important than the magazine’s branding. The red and white

theme fits with the British conventions of a magazine, although it’s an American

magazine.

The masthead is written in a simplistic font consisting of all capitals. This gives the

impression that the magazine and band have a minimalistic feel to them.

SPIN Magazine AnalysisCONTENTS PG

Black, white and sepia colours used in the image give it a retro,

but modern look.

A blue colour is used in this box to make the readers eyes pick it out from the grey

background, although the box is kept small as it’s not as important to the page as the

contents of the magazine.

The ‘Features’ section of this page is in a simplistic white font. This keeps with the modern, retro conventions

portrayed by the image.

The red and white SPIN logo contrast with the dark toned background.

The page doesn’t look crowded with content, and is kept

minimalistic to draw attention to the features text and the image.

The page doesn’t have unnecessary pieces of text,

everything relates to the contents of the magazine. This quote shows that the image is part of an article

located on another page.

SPIN Magazine AnalysisDOUBLE PAGEThe article image has a black and white filter applied to it to

match house styled text. This keeps it minimalistic, and fits with the theme of simplicity.

The captions are in a very small size font, so that they

don’t distract the reader from the main article. But if the

reader wishes to know more about the image they still

can.

Keeping text styles black and white gives the

magazine a simplistic feel, with minimalistic visuals.

This makes it easy for people who just want to focus on the article, and

not all the fancy features.

Gender is represented as not being all that different, whether the artist is male or female. Humour is then used to make the statement previously seem serious.

The small caption makes the reader focus more on

the appearance of the artists rather than their

names.

The clothing of the artists is black and white, matching the simplistic

house style.

This title relates to a duo named ‘She and Him’, but is made plural to represent all

the duos in the music industry. The ‘AND’ is

underlined to show that both parties are important

to the duo, not just an individual.