Feature artice, Analyzie Two.

The front covers design is very similar to Q’s content page as they use the same font and colour scheme, therefore it shows the reader that they are almost carrying on the front cover into the music magazine, so that it all flows, and is an easy enjoyable read. The overall design is very basic and not to garish, this shows that the music magazine is not trying to show itself off, this could suggest that it is already a very well-known magazine, in the music world. The bold red at the top of the page displaying the pages tittle, stands out against the plain white background and this makes it look very professional and a well-made magazine.  The layout of the content page is very simple and easy to navigate around, therefore the reader does not need to take too long on the content page routing around to find the article they are looking for.

The main purpose of a content page is to show the reader who else major is being featured in the magazine, as otherwise they might just simply skim through to the where the article they want to read is and not know about the other big bands being featured. It is also to give the reader some a short piece of info that they might not of known before looking at the magazine, also some magazines have small captions of an article that is of something major but only show the rest online, this technique can draw a bigger audience into their online magazine, therefore they have a wider costumer base to sell their magazine to. However Q does not do this.

The magazine itself uses many different persuasive techniques to draw the audience into physically reading the articles, presented on the content page e.g. the use of different colourations, for the numbers and tittles of each artist, the major artists that have been featured, have their names in a red, whereas the rest have their names in orange this shows that the ones in red have been featured on the front cover of the magazine, letting the reader know there are bigger articles about that band. They also use captions from that article, so that the reader has a small slice of what the article is about and may want to read into it more. On the right hand side they have a ‘Reviews’ section which they make stand out giving it a separate box, this could suggest that these are important and a good read. The images that they have used are all of artists/ band together therefore showing that the articles featured might be about all of them, this would further entice the reader into wanting to know about how the whole band is getting on.

There are many artists that have been displayed and featured on the content page, with little sub-quotes, for each caption to go with the name of the artist. This is so that the reader can automatically know where and what that particular article is about, and what it focuses on about that artist. The page numbers are displayed in bold black so that they are the first thing that the reader notices, when looking at the featured artists. There are exactly 17 artists displayed on the content page which is a lot of information to take in when quickly skimming through trying to find the article you are looking for but they have mad the main articles closer to the top e.g. Kings of Leon.