This front cover of Q magazine is different
to most Q front covers, as the colour’s that have been used on this front cover
are very different. As these colours used have a more of a girly fell to them,
the main colour scheme that has been used here are white, black yellow and
light pink. The colour’s that have been used all link together very well as the
white has been used through the way that it is one of the colour’s in the Q
logo and how it have also been used for Lana Del Rey’s dress. The pink has been
used for the name of the main artist in this issue of Q Lana Del Rey. The pink
has also been used for other bits of text this is the same with the black and
the white as these are the main text colours.
The yellow has been used for the big yellow circle that is over to the
left on the front cover of this music magazine. All of the main colours have
been used together at the top of the page. I feel that the colour’s that have
been used here are different to normal colour scheme that is commonly used as
these colour’s are very light. For my front page of my magazine I will be using
colour’s that are not as light as these colour’s. Also I will be using three
colour’s for my colour scheme not four like the way that four has been used
here as I feel that three is better as then it helps the colour’s not to be too
busy. These colours do not look busy but some other colour schemes may do. Something
else that has been done with the colour scheme here is make the clothing match
the colour scheme this would be something that I would think about or have it
so that the colour’s complement each other well.
The colour red is the background colour that
is used on the Q logo this also links to the blood that is running down Lana’s
head and this also links to the language that is used under her name on the
front cover. Which reads “so what’s so bloody good?” this links to the blood
that is running down the side of her head and also asking the question of why
does ever one think see is so good. This is in black to help it stand out under
her name. I think that they way that they have asked this question on the front
cover helps to make people want to read this magazine to find out, I think that
this is a good way to make people want to read it. I also think that having
this question having to means is also a really good think that they have done
here. I would think about doing something like this.
One the this front cover they have put all
of the things that they want you to read in black as this helps to catch your
eye as there is a lot of light coloured text used on this front cover so as an
example they have put the words “Everybody’s mad for…..” in black and also the
“so, what’s so bloody good?” also in black as then you read it and it draws
your eyes to the words in the lighter colour’s like “Lana Del Ray”.
Something else that is on the front cover
that is really important on magazines is the font. There are a couple of
different types of fonts that are being used on this music magazine. There is
some parts of the text that are in bold and in capitals a example of this is
the words “KINGS OF LEON”. Another type of text that is used is a more hand
written font which is used for Lana Del Ray.
The
layout of this magazine is that the photo of the artist is in the centre of the
page with most of the text to the left side of the page and the text on this
side is shaped around of the image so that it does not do on to the photo. The
only thing that is on the photo on the left is the yellow circle with the
twenty six festivals in. On the right hand side of the page the logo there is
not as much text on this side as there is less room as there is the big Q logo.
This text does go onto the image on this side as there is less shape as Lana’s
arm is down on the left hand side which leaves less shape, for text. I feel
that text on the front of magazines looks best when you can see the image easily
and also read the text easily as well which has been gone here. I normally don’t
like it when text goes on the top of the images but I think that it looks good
here as there the part of the image that the text is over is a very light
colour.
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