This issue of ‘Q’
features singer ‘Florence and the machine’ and gives the reader an
insight into the article with inserted quotations and the title
‘Woman on the edge’. The quotations give a snapshot of what the reader should expect,
which is a good idea to appeal to a type of audience. For example, quotes
including drugs and drinking are stereotypically associated with Rock music;
therefore advertising rock magazine if those quotes are used. Feature articles
around the edge of the front cover are used which have the title: ‘heroin,
hookers and heavy metal’. This advertises to a genre of music completely
different to Florence and the Machine. This is something I would use in
magazine so that I reach a large spectrum of music lovers all with
different music tastes. The red and blue colour scheme contrasts each other and
relate to Florence's photo. The flash of blue we see throughout the front cover
is depicted from her blue eye shadow, making the colour pop. Like in
previous issues of Q, we see the thin lines to separate the features around the
photo. Again it makes the layout clear and easy to read keeping the cover to be
completely text dominated. Different sized text keeps the text
interesting; however the use of the same font used continuously keeps
the magazine from looking too unconventional and messy. With my own magazine I
will keep to using 2-3 fonts so that I mix the text up a bit and make it
more interesting, but I will make sure the fonts do not clash.
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