MASTHEAD – large, bold font. Bold colour red, letters fade towards bottom. Placed over the top of the featured artist. The way the masthead fades ensures that it is still visible to the audience but does not attract too much attention away from the featuring artist. MAIN IMAGE – Main image situated in the centre of the magazine, Dressed in all white, makes the model stand out and draws attention to him. He is giving the camera direct address by looking directly into the camera making the audience feel connected with the cover,

MODEL CREDIT –”The New God Mc”- This choice of words interreges the audience and makes them interesting in the articles to come. The bright colour of the red font also helps to draw attention to the model credit.

COVERLINES – “The Big List Issue”, a smaller size compared to the featured artist but is still clear and easy to read. The coverlines show us exactly what is going o be featured within the magazine.

MAIN COVER LINE -Kendrick Lamar” - Bold, black font stands out against the white background. Makes the audience aware of who is featured in the magazine.

HOUSE STYLE – the colour scheme used is consistent, featuring red, white and black, The main image also fits in with this colour scheme as the featured artist is wearing a white shirt. The sans serif font style is also used consistently on the cover.

COLOUR – Colours used include red, white, grey and black. Red suggests danger and rebellion towards the audience, making it more appealing and draws the audiences attention. The white background also helps to emphasise the coverlines and featured artists and does not draw attention away from the focus of the magazine,

TYPEFACES - San serif fonts used for the masthead, cover lines and all other text. The use of this text gives the magazine an overall simplistic look, without overcomplicating anything,

PHOTOGRAPHY LIGHTING –High key lighting has ben used to take the cover photograph for this magazine to make the featured artist stand out and look more appealing towards the reader, influencing them to want to purchase the magazine. Gender has been represented within the mise en scene of this image through the use of gold jewellery and a gold watch – this signifies that the featured artist is wealthy and a dominant male, therefore creating an gender representation on the cover,DESIGN PRINCIPLES USED-The Gutenberg design principle has been taken into consideration wen designing the layout of this magazine as proven from the mas head appearing across the primary optical area and the strong fallow area, also from the bar code being situated in the weak fallow area, and most of the cover lines along the left side of the page following the reading direction of gravity.

MASTHEAD – Large letter Q situated in the primary optical area. It is easily visible against the right red square behind it and is easily identified to the audience. In the position it is in, it attracts just enough attention, yet does not overpower the image with its boldness.MAIN IMAGE - Close up of models face and hands situated in the middle of the cover. The featured artist stands out with her pale skin against her brightly coloured hair, which is contrasted by her pale blue make-up.MODEL CREDIT – “Woman on the edge”, choice of words intrigues the reader and appeals to them, making them more likely to purchase it as they want to find out all about the woman on the edge. The use of use of white font colour makes the text stand out against the featured artists bright hair colour. COVERLINES – The coverlines such as “16-page Gig blow out!” and “Motely Crue” makes the audience easily award of what is featured within the aware of what is featured within the magazine and the white font makes the text easy to read.MAIN COVER LINE – FLORENCE is situated in the strong fallow area – the bold sans serif font makes the main cover line easy and clear to read. It also grabs the readers attention – it tells the audience clearly who is featured within tis issue of the magazine.

HOUSE STYLE – White font, red white and blue colour scheme. A san serif font style is consistent. Q Magazine always features the masthead in the top left hand corner to keep the consistency. The colours used compliment each other well.

COLOUR - Red, blue, white, orange. Light blue used on to of the models bright orange hair colour contrasts and draws attention. The contrast of the pale blue against the orange hair makes aspects of the text stand out well and catches the audiences eye. TYPEFACES – Sans serif font used for most the text besides the masthead caption and model quote, where a serif font is used. The use of the simple sans serif font styles give the magazine a simplistic look. The detail of the serif font f the quoted coverline “I feel so alone” draws attention towards this quote and intrigues the reader – influencing them to want to purchase tis magazine and read further into the story.PHOTOGRAPHY LIGHTING -

DESIGN PRINCIPLES USED- The Gutenberg design principle has been took into consideration when designing the layout of this magazine as the masthead and main coverline feature in e primary optical area and strong fallow area. However, lots of information has been placed around the weak fallow area, going against the Gutenberg design.

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