Looking at different music magazines

Q magazine.

In my research i decided to look in to different types of music magazines to see what techniques they use and how they will attract their mass or niche audience. Q magazine attracts a mass audience as it is for people who are interested in a wide range of music from U2 to Lily Allen. The single letter for the masthead is striking and unique, as there are not any other music magazines named one letter. The red background of the title attracts different types of audience as for me, red has the most connotations of a colour. Red can be seen as love or passion, to death and danger. In my research i realised a wide range of magazines use the colour red in their house colours for this reason. Q magazine uses white space in the background to show versatility and a sophisticated simplicity, your eye focus is on the image and using famous artists is a great way to make people buy the magazine as if the readers is particularly interested in the artist they will buy it to read on.