Textual Analisis 2

Q Magazine April 2009 issue

Overview
This magazine is specifically aimed at all music fans, not so much metal and heavy rock fans, but it still contains articles with rock groups as well as pop singers, like the cover star of this issue. Q is very much a lifestyle magazine, as it is quite gloosy and more 'clean cut' than others on the market.

Front Cover
We have the banner showing the most important article within this issue, which here is an interview with Lily Allen. This headline states "sexy beast Lily Allen & her wicked ways...", using a colour scheme of black, white, blue and red. This is used to lure the reader in. Q also has a clever use of graphics on this page as the image behind the headline is a metaphor for the headline; which states "sexy beast", which compliments the picture she is accompanied by two black jaguars. The "sexy" part is shown by the fact that Lily is topless. Lily Allen is positioned directly in the middle, so she stand out to the audience. We also have use of cover lines in the top right hand corner and along the bottom of the page; using quotes and then explaining, very briefly, what the article is about. We also have an exclusive article with The Stone Roses.


Contents Page
The contents page takes up two pages and has shots of the featured articles within the magazine, along the bottom, to show some of the articles people might be interested in. Q also uses an original system of sorting theres contents' lists between "regulars" and "features"; the "regulars" section is for everything that is usually in Q, and the "features" is for everything specific to this issue. For most of the articles lsited, we have a title for each and a few sentences that form a cover line. The only excpetions to this is the "Q review" section which gives a cover line, but gives specific examples of what is being reviewed, it entices the reader in with examples of the most anticipated album reviews. The other exception to the above rule is the cover story of Lily Allen, which has a much larger cover line, forming a fairly large paragraph. The centre of the page is taken is taken up by another shot of Lily Allen's exclusive photoshoot for Q and an exclusive shot of Guy Garvey for Q. There is no editorial on the contents page.


Feature
The main article of this isue of Q is that of an interview with Lily Allen and rather than it being a double page it takes up 9 whole page within this issue; this is simply because Lily Allen is so popular in modern day culture, that the editors of Q know the issue will sell because of her being on the cover. On most of these pages, there is a 50/50 split between word and images. The images in this article do not just relate to Lily's music, it also refers to her entirelife, her social life, her sense of fashion and her music. in the shoot she changes outfit in each shot; each is very fashionable and quite sexy, which links to the theme of the article as "Lily Allen - Sexy Beast." Through the article we have quotes from the text on the page, enlarged and placed in the image. We have a basic colour scheme of black, purple and white, which is shown in the background, the colour of the jaguars and Lily's clothes.