On this particular magazine cover the artist(s) features in the centre in order to give them a greater sense of importance to the audience. Their facial expressions show are serious and the camera is positioned slightly below them so that we are looking up at the artist, both of these things are to represent a higher status than the reader/ audience.

Where costume is concerned, the frontman is wearing a leather jacket and dark tight fitting jeans, he also has a long hair style, all conventions of the rock/ punk genre. The man behind him is made to look cool with the use of his guitar being edited to look like it’s on fire. The fire may represent the burning success of the artist and attract people to read more about them and hopefully listen to their music. When creating my own magazine, I should consider including some similar editing too add stature to the artist I will create and promote.

The magazine cover is actually very plain in comparison to a lot of the others I have analysed. However this does give the magazine an advantage in that the pictures and text do stand out. The cover features 3 different images, the main band I have previously spoken about and 2 smaller images on either side. As there is no background to interfere with these images, the audience can focus on them easily and then may choose to buy the magazine to either follow these artists or find out about them.

Choice of text looks formal at the top of the magazine, as do the Q logo. This may be due to the magazine being based in the UK and priding itself on that fact. It also suits the serious facial expressions of the artists and shows that this magazine takes the music seriously. The band text ‘Kasabian’ is in bold and stretches across a larger space than any other text, again to express importance and to show the audience the main focus of this particular issue of Q.