magazine research

 I think this front page of the Q magazine has a bit of a retro feel too it, mainly because of the style of clothes the man is wearing, but I think that the writing on the page looks quite modern. The target audience of this magazine is for people of many different ages as the content the magazine provides varies from various festivals up and coming and many different interviews from different bands. It targets lots of different people because of the variety of genres of music that are talked about in the magazine. I think the age at which the magazine targets are any age because I think in this day and age many younger people have their own music tastes so they like various types of music and this magazine compliments that well. The title is located at the bottom left of the front page it works well because the portrait takes up most of the page so it is out of the way and not taking too much of the page but it also stands out as the colours don’t clash so it stands out from the black on his top, the words are effective using his name to make readers know who he is, and the words underneath; ‘Then.Now.Tomorrow…’ they are used well because they draw readers in and it makes you want to read more because of the ellipses at the end of tomorrow which means there’s something more to come as in the man is making a comeback or he’s doing something new in his career. The colours used on the front page are similar to the logo but they are quite plain colours and again it relates to the image as the colours on his top are plain and the same colours that are used on the text and i think this works quite well because then there isnt too many different colours which could distract you from the picture or the writing.