Annalysing the front cover of 'Q' magazine

GENRE:

• This music magazine is assosiated with many genres
• this type of magazine is the largest music magazine available in the country
• there is also a television channel called 'q', which plays a wide range of genres

TARGET AUDIENCE:

• the magaizne approaches later teenagers and young adults because the layout is sophisticated, an dtherefore suitable for teh target audience
  

IMAGE:

• the main image is of a medium close of Madonna, which means that the magazine editors are appealing to more of a mature audience as well as older teens, she is looking directly at the audience, which means she is trying to address the audience
• the image is merged into the cover to relate with the conventions of the magaizne
• the following colours are used: black, red and white to attract the audience as the colours are eye-catching
• the good use of colours also relate to women as women favour lots of colours
  
• the mise en scene is plain black, which contrasts well with red and white.
• The mise-en-scene shows that Madonna is wearing a hooded top and rather funky glove, which again suggests that the target audience is later teens

TYPOGRAPHY:

• the use of the straplines suggests that the magaizne is very popular and consists of a wide range of music genres due to a range of different famous people being interviewed
• the text is bold and sophisticated to relate to the genre and target audience
• the masthead is parly covered by the image, this demonstrates that the audience are expected to know the name of the magzine becasue its so well established and successful