Q- Front Cover Analysis

The Front Cover

Masthead
This is the masthead, its usually always red and positioned in the top left corner of the magazines front cover.
Although the masthead does not fit across the top part of the page, the masthead is still conventional as it is positioned in the top section of the page.

The masthead is positioned behind the picture, showing layers within the magazine design.

Cover Lines
The two main Alliteration headlines here has been are the names of used to make the people of It has the the subwhom the biggest headline heading information is to draw readers catchy and about e.g. White in. more Lies and Richard They used an The heading THE Q intriguing for Branson. interesting pull-quote INTERVEIW shows its one of reader. from one of the the more important articles articles to entice to read. people to want to read the article and therefor buy the magazine. Also showing you what else will be inside. This caption is the main cover line on the front cover.

The Picture
The man at the bottom is looking into the camera to create eye contact with the buyer, being inviting and catching attention, this is conventional to do this. The picture is in front of the logo making it stand out and creating importance of the image. The picture is a close up; you can the head and shoulders but not the whole of the torso. Its more conventional to have a medium close up for the front cover but its not unconventional to have a close up picture especially as theres a group of them.

Bar Code
Unconventionally, the date is The barcode was conventionally printed on the white border places at the bottom of the around the barcode along page to the side; in the case at with other conventionally the bottom right of the page. Its placed information like the conventionally there so that it cover price and the doesnt cover too much of the magazines website. picture or cover lines on the front page.