Music Magazine Analysis - Front Cover

Since I'm going to make a music magazine, I thought I would analyse one of the well known magazines, and show you how they work so well.

Central Image/Cover model- The cover image needs to stand out because its what catches peoples eyes! This is important so needs to be relevant to the magazine. Editors do this by getting celebrities who are linked to the magazine genre. In this case, they have used Adele to be the cover model.

Masthead- The masthead is the name of the magazine. For this magazine it would be the Red box with the 'Q' in it.

 (Q Magazine)

Tagline- The tagline is normally on or near the masthead. For this magazine its the writing on the masthead saying 'Discover great music'. Magazines have taglines to show what the magazine is about.

Pugs- A pug has been used on this magazine to draw attention and promote the magazine. This would be the gold circle on the left ('The 300th issue'). Pugs are normally on the top left or right, and so look like ears.

Hope this helped you understand magazines a little bit more.