'Q' Magazine Febuary 2010

On this magazine front cover the image is very vintage, the magazine have took a modern artist, Cheryl Cole, and made her into a vintage artist just by using the effect of dark colours. Although on the other magazines I have looked at, I have noticed that the images of the artists are in black and white, so this magazine has a modern twist on it. It looks as though the picture has been taken in the rain although you can tell it is studio shot because of the lighting on her face, it makes it stand out from the dark background. Her hair has blended in with the black background, the image looks like it has been took in the dark.

The make up on Cheryl makes her look as powerful and independent woman, she looks slightly aggressive. Also Cheryl doesn't have any instruments as props like the other vintage magazines I have looked at, but I choose it because I think the image is really effective and would be something I would consider using.

I also like the colour scheme used goes with the house style of 'Q' with the white and red writing. I think this works really well, I would use this colour scheme myself. I like the fact it goes with the 'Q' logo. There are 7 banners altogether and this is to make the black writing stand out as you wouldn't be able to see it on the black background. The dark colours on the front cover image make the red and white text stand out.

The thing that stands out to me the most is 'Rocks' because it is red text and contrasts with the dark background. Also to emphasise the word, it is spaced out, I like this effect and I would possibly use this on my own music magazine.

The main feature is '3 words.. Cheryl Cole Rocks' this is a play on words as '3 words' is a song which she sung. 'Q' normaly has their tag line under its logo in the left hand top corner of the magazine. For this particular front cover 'Q' has used a banner at the top of the page and made the tag line bigger and bolder but the same colours have been used as 'Q' would normaly use, black background and white text. There is also a banner down the left and hand side of the page stating what artists are featured in the magazine.

A puff has been used on the front cover saying 'John Lennons lost weekend' this is to draw the audiences attention to other features involved in the magazine.

There is a wide range of text sizes to show the importance of different features in the magazine. The text has stuck to the colour scheme or red and white.

This front cover has influenced my creative decisions by the housestyle, red and white. The effect on the image has also influenced me although this would be a hard effect  to create.