Issue: June 2014

This magazine has approximately 136 pages, the main article

starts on page 54 which relates to the front page as it is about

Lilly Allen. The articles average between 2 and 10 pages. There

are 9 other stories in the magazine. The layout matches the

house style of the front cover by the red, black and white

colours and the black and white writing. The contents has 4

columns of text, 2 columns per A4 page. The images cover all of

the columns and the page numbers range from 1.5cm and 3cm

which are all placed to the left of the article apart from one.

The font sizes used are about 10-12 for details and 18-20 for

headings. There are two different fonts used, Times New Roman

and Arial Bold. The fonts link to the house style and front page

because the colours of the fonts and the fonts are featured

throughout the magazine. The ‘Q’ logo is used again on the

contents page but there is a colour change, on the front page

the ‘Q’ is white and the background is red, on the contents

page the ‘Q’ is red and the background is black. There are 9

articles illustrated with an image out of 10. All the images are

shot in different locations. The company ‘Bauer’ publishes ‘Q’

magazine. I can tell the magazine is aimed at 18 – 15 year olds

because of the youthful images and the models are all

recognisable from that age group. There are modern

representations of new musicians and fashion. Oasis are not

new so this breaks the convention.

This contents page has influenced my creative decisions as I like the

way the page numbers have been set out left of the article, I also like

the bubbles they are in and the different colours, this would be a

feature I would use when I create a contents page for my vintage

music magazine. I also like the fact there is little text because most of

the time the audience doesn’t read it, they just look at the pictures

which again I like because there are allot of visual features. This is

another technique I would consider using in my music magazine’s

contents page.