Second Front Cover Analysis Q - Tom.

This is the Q magazine front cover,  the masthead is in the top left corner of the screen, in this issue of Q, it is effective to do this, as kings of leon are meant to snatch your attention by jumping through glass, on the front cover there is a few sub headings, such as Kings Of Leon Break Through, this works well with the glass and is the cover story of the magazine, just above the barcode on the bottom left of the cover is a quote written in white on a black background, this creates good contrast and draws the reader into reading it. There is another subheading playtime for the killers with arrows pointing to the inside of the magazine, it makes you wonder whats inside the magazine and what the story is on about. The kings of leon jumping through the glass makes the magazine looks like its coming at you. Q have done their cover very well in terms of white space, they have hardly left any white space on the whole page, it has been very well covered, except for the bottom right corner where they could of added more about whats inside. The whole front cover is based in informal language, this is because the type of reader  for Q magazine tend to be teenagers and young adults, who will be more interested in coloquilisms than formal language. The way the writing always seems to be black with another colour, such as red, or pink, shows consistency with the style of writing. The Kings Of Leon are an established band and therefore people are more likely to buy the magazine, seeing someone famous who you know on the front of a music magazine works better than it would if it was a less known artist.