Textual Analysis - Cover - Q Magazine

This is Q Magazine, published by Bauer Media Group - the same publishers has Kerrang Magazine. They seem to publish a variety of different magazines, but for different audiences. This may be to attract a wider range of people. Q magazine looks more expensive and feels more expensive than others such like Kerrang. Q display more "shocking" and "eccentric" images on their covers which differ from Kerrangs simple band images. Kerrange magazine uses a more cheaper feeling material for their magazines,yet Q uses a more expensive and nicer material. You'd want to keep a Q magazine more than a Kerrang one due to its condition and vintage images.

The Banner across the top " The UK's biggest music magazine" would attract the audiences to buying it.

The image of Lady GaGa is very eye catching and quite shocking. It would attract an audience to buy the magazine, paticulary Lady Gaga fans. The overlaping text of "Lady Gaga" is to tell the readers that she is featuring in it.  Its striking and interesting.

The different artists that feature in this issue, have their names written in bold text on the right hand side and this shows Q uses more than one artist, and Jimi Hendrix being written in the boldest would allure the audiences because he's a classic rock artist.

The colour scheme seems to be the same every issue.They alway use a grey background. They use white fonts on the main artist "Lady Gaga" to emerge audiences. Where it says "100 most shocking artists" they elaberate on the "shocking" by again making it stand out with a white background and bold red writing.