On the cover of this month's magazine, Q shows the wide range of genres shown in the magazine. Lady GAGA representing pop, Jay Z represnting rap David Ghorl from foo fighters representing Rock. All three images are in a full shot, which means that the editor of the magazine wanted the images to stand out and grab the readers attention, making the three images the more important images and infomation on the front cover. The editor did this knowing that it's advertising to new readers who like those kinds of music, this creating a wider fan base for the magazine.
The image of lady GAGA has been layered over the Q logo, showing the readers that the dominating image of the three music stars are the most important information on that front cover.
The logo for the magazine and the name of the magazine are both the same. Q. The Q is in a white font text surrounded by a red box, making the white text contrast against the red and therfore making the Q eye-catching to passer-bys.
Below the logo Q, there are the headings for the three dominant images centered in the middle of the front cover. Once again, all text are surrounding the images and hardly any text have been layered on to the three images, once again giving the impression that the three images are the most important information on the magazine.
All three of the headings are in a orangey colour accompanied by small black text. The headings are made to stand out to the readers by having them in an orangey text and making them into a big size font. The reason for this is to show the readers who don't know yet, who the three images are so the reader doeesn't have to go flicking through the magazine to find out who they are.
Below the headings is the bar code. This is a legal requirment for all magaziness, to have the bar code on either the back of the magazine or mostly the front of the magazine. On the bar code are the other legal requirements that all magazines have to have on the magazine, date, issue number and price. These legal requirements are put in the corner so they can be easily found however they don't drag attention away from the main infomation placed on the cover.
Layered below the images is an orange banner with black text and white text in, The banner has a white cross with a black background attached on to it, i think this has been done to create an 3D effect for the banner, so the banner stands out from al lthe other big texts. Inside the organe banner, there is black and white text establishing who is being featured for this issue. The black text stands out more clearer then the white text does, this showing that the infomation placed in the black text is more important, or that the words in black are part of a sentence and therefore you have to read the whole banner in order to establish what is inside the banner. This is a clever straterdgy that magzine editors use to get the reader to read the whole banner instead of just snipets. Also the text in black are famous music stars, so the audience of the magazine would reconise them quickly and would want to read about them in the banner.
At the top of the cover, there is another black banner with white font and a semi circle cut into it. The black and white contrast against each other, making it easier to read the text and for the text to stand out ot the readers. The text in white is the slogan for this month's edition of Q. The orange semi circle contains the caption for the dominant images centered in the middle of the front cover.
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