Magazine Content Analysis

House Style

The house style of this magazine would be white, red, and black. The right is significant throughout the magazine because on every Q magazine it’s red. This house style of this content page is upbeat and colours full because of the colours they have used on the page numbers and the colours in the images. The images aren’t dark they are bright and they have colours to them in the background. This represents what type of magazine this is because it shows the music bands inside are upbeat and pop but if the bands were dark and rock they wouldn’t be much colours on the bag it would be mainly black and white

Target Audience

The target audience for this magazine would be people who are into rock or indie pop, etc. It would appeal to those types of people because of the people who are featuring in the magazine. The target age would be people between 18-30 because for the adverts that are inside of the magazine and this music would appeal to those people more

The Guttenberg Design Principle

The primary optical area would be the top left corner. In that corner there is a picture of Ricky Gervais and that’s where it starts to say the pages and the content. The strong fallow area is the top right corner, in that corner there is reviews that Q have made on bands and artists. This may make people buy the magazine if the magazine gives recommendations of good artists Imagery

On the bottom of the page there is an image of Lilly Allen which reflects what type of magazine this is because Lilly Allen makes Indie Pop music so that’s the type of music that maybe inside the magazine or other genres like that. This may make people by the magazine if they see that type of music will be in the there so they may want to buy it more.

Design Balance

The balance of this content page would be informal because the text isn’t laid out in a certain way it’s just been placed on the page randomly and the colorful page numbers aren’t all the same size. It would also be informal because the colours are bright and they don’t look professional

Magazine Content Page Analysis

Target Audience

The target audience of this magazine would be people who are in too Rock or Indie Rock because that’s the type of bands and artists that are in the magazine. The target age would be people between the ages of 15-22 because it’s advertising clothes that younger people would wear and festivals they would go too.

The Guttenberg Design Principle

The strong fallow area is where the big red box is where it is talking about what’s in the magazine. This may have been put there because it catches people’s attentions and shows them what’s inside which may make people want to buy the magazine. The primary optical area is the top left corner. In the primary optical area it is talking about the main points of the magazine and what pages there on. This would have been placed there so people can find out what’s in the magazine before they buy it.

Imagery

On the content page there is an image of Artic monkeys on the left side which reflects what type of genre of magazine that is because Artic Monkey are a rock band and the magazine would have them in there because it will appeal to people who like rock magazines and rock bands. Also the magazine maybe targeting men because of the colours they have used which is white black and red because they are masculine colours and they will appeal to men.

House Style

The house style of this magazine would be red white and black. The layout of this magazine is cluttered and it’s not organized. This shows that men read this magazine because it’s not smart like other magazines are.

Design Balance (informal or formal)

The design balance would be formal because the box are placed in a specific place and they all fit together in straight lines. It’s also informal because the page doesn’t have symmetry, text is just placed anywhere on the page.

Evaluation

These two magazines have a lot of similarities and differences. One of the similarities between them is that the main colours on both of the content pages is red, this may have been used because they stand out on the page and it is very eye catching. Another similarity is that they have a lot of images on the content page of who is featured in the magazine which shows which type of music magazines they are and who the audience may like to see. Finally the both target the same people who are into the same type of music which is rock/Indie rock.