Anaylsis of a front cover of a music magazine 'Q'

The masthead on Q magazine has always been the same and is well known, fot its white font on a red background. The red emphasises the font and makes it stand out more to the audience. The colour red is symbolic of many things, love, passion, danger, blood, its a very widely used colour as it can mean many things. There is a colour scheme throughout the front cover of the magazine, this consists of red, grey, balck and white. These colours are very basic and bold, there are no flashy colours which relates to the audience. This main house style is carried throughout this front cover even though there are some differences. The elements that stays the same throughout is the font and the colour of the font. The font is a sans serif font as the text is informal. Below the Q logo is small white text which shows which arists have been interviewed for the magazine, this text is very basic and shows a maturity to the magazine, even though the text is sans serif. The text itself is similiar to the other text used on the front cover. In the top right hand corner there is text, in the same font, to say which other aritists are mentioned inside the magazine wrote in red, with where they are wrote in white underneath. Using these two colours together for this piece of text makes the font stand out as it is the same colours used together for the logo. Below this is large bold red writing of the name of the artist being featured, this is the main title for this cover of Q. This main title splashes across the main cover shot. With the main title being red it links to the main masthead of the magazine which then acts as a frame around the main imgae. This also keeps the amount of colours within the cover limited which shows the magazine is professional and not a joke. The cover shoot is slightly covering the masthead. I believe this shows the status of the person on the cover. The main cover shoot is a close up. The shot in the front cover is a well known celebrity, Madonna, who is extremely well known for her music carrier which would link very well the theme and purpose if the magazine. In the shot Madonna is wearing what looks luke a boxing robe which could suggest that she is up for a fight and you have to fight to succeed in this world. This front cover has another image on it, spread across the bottom of the cover, although this image is much smaller in size, showing that it has less importance to the magazine than the main cover shot which covers a large percentage of the front cover.