Music Magazine Cover analysis (Q Magazine)

The magazine cover has the basics, A mast head to show the name of the magazine however as Q magazine is a well know magazine, the mast head doesn't need to be fully displayed therefore a section is covered by the model (Madonna). Here we get a sense of the magazines institution (Q magazine), which again is a very well know magazine and people instinctively know what it is.

It also features cover lines, these are used to attract the reading in the magazine, however with out drawing to much attention from the main image. On the other hand it also features a main cover line, this is mainly along the bottom section of the magazine and covers most of the area, the font is different for each layer and word of the main cover line. The main font (Artists name) is bright and bold the same colour as the magazines logo. On the other hand the it also stands out as it is on a black background.

The main image is a image of the singer Madonna, the image is quite big. Therefore making it appealing to the audience as it stands out boldly. She is looking directly at the reader again appealing more to the reader and dragging them into the magazine. With the image we get a sense of confidence and power from the way she looking directly at the audience.

The selling line on the magazine again is slightly covered up by the main model, also again due to the popularity of the magazine people know what the magazine is about. The selling line on the other hand allows the audience to pick up on the genre of magazine, and go straight to the main marketing point of the magazine. "Britain's Biggest Music Magazine".

The magazine also features a bar code, with has the price and when the issue goes out (date and year). We also get a model credit, said by the model. Here we get Madonna saying "Stupid Question ! Next!" making it seem like the model in being personal towards the magazine.

The Ideology of the magazine is the culture of a variety of music genres, it doesn't look at one genre but focuses on many. We can see this with the selling line "Britain's Biggest Music Magazine" we can see that the address music as a whole again making it seem like the look at many different styles of music. When we look closer at the ideology of the magazine it becomes easier to identify the audience, in the case of Q magazine they would reach a wide range of music fans, because of the different genres it features.