Thursday, 4 October 2012

The break down of Q.

 Q is a famous music magazine and the red and white logo is well known. It is positioned very cleverly in the top left hand corner of the magazine because in a news agent's the way the magazines are stacked would mean the left hand side or the top is usually all you can see. This makes the magazine easy for the customer to find.

This issue can be found by the date printed above the bar code which says 'March 2012'. It is obviously a monthly magazine. The price is also above the bar code and I believe it says '£3.99'.

The main image is also the background of the cover and is a picture of Florence from Florence and the Machine. The anchorage title reads, 'Florence woman on the edge' and the puff above it is a quote from Florence saying, 'I feel so alone'.

This magazine cover has no skyline but it has a lot of sell lines which include, 'Meet the new Simon Cowell...(and this one's not a bastard)' and 'Skrillex dance genius or noisy git?' which is also a rhetorical question to entice the reader.

There is also a 'ne column' stamp printed on the front as a sell line to inform the reader of new developments in the magazine. However there are no supplements or cover mount for a free gift.

On the left, hidden in a sell line is the exaggerated buzz word, 'GIG' which is there to attract the reader's attention.

I think that the target audience is definitely music lovers, this issue is probably going to be more attractive to women because of the feature on Florence.

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