Target Audience

After studying three magazines I have decided that now I should think about my target audience. The magazines I have studied seem to be for intellectual people as most of the words in the magazine have more than one syllable in them.
I would like the genre of my magazine to be mostly rock as most music magazines are because there are no big selling mainstream magazines that I have found. Also this is because I would have more to speak about and include in my magazine. This genre is one of the most sold genres for a magazine.
I have targeted my audience to be of the age of 16-25 and the price would be £2+ because they would be students or in a job so they would have the money to buy it.

Q Magazine

This magazine is one of the best selling music magazines. Inside this magazine they show more information on CD's DVD's and interviews with bands.

Image

The image is of the famous Madonna. The image is different to the Karrang! magazine because there is only one main image without more little images filling up the space.This image shows Madonna looking straight into the camera, inviting the audience into the magazine.

Text

The headlines for the sover stories are the same colour as the logo which is really well formatted. Also the font is quite simplistic but effective as it doesn't confuse the reader, or distract them. There is more description in the text than there is in the Kerrang! magazine so it symbolises that this magazine will have more information inside than inside the Kerrang! magazine.

Colour

Again I see that this magazine has chosen to stick with a simple colour scheme of red and white. The white and red writing sticks out on the background of the black top that Madonna is wearing.

Layout

The layout for this cover is quite simple but packed, they have used a medium close up of Madonna and ued that as the the background. They have also put the masthead in the usual place of the top left hand corner underneath everything else. The main cover story is just over the image of Madonna in red writin to make it stand out.