Deconstruction of a Q magazine front cover
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The document discusses the design elements of a magazine cover, including the masthead in a familiar red color that catches readers' eyes, a selling line promoting the magazine's focus on great music in this issue, and a pull quote highlighting the main story to attract readers. An image of an artist is layered beneath the masthead and above a button to create extra depth and an illusion through the glasses in the photo. The color scheme of red, white, and black follows the conventional colors used for Q magazine covers.
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Deconstruction of a Q magazine front cover
- 1. The masthead isthe same as the otherQ magazines because itisa familiarsymbol to the readers. It isat an eye catchingsize and positionof the page.Also the harsh red colouragainsta lighter background makesitmore appealingtoQ readers. The selling line isto promote what the magazine isintendingto engage the readerin.In thisissue ,the readeris aware its all about‘great’ music. The pull quote on thispage is to tell the readerwhat the mainstory isabout , and alsoto promote the magazine to the reader. Thisbuttonis usedtoattract the readerseye as well asdisplayone of the mainstoriesfeatured withinthisissue of the magazine. The cut out image is layered beneath the mastheadbut above the buttonon the right. instead of angle of gaze , Q have embeddedan image to the glassesof the artistto create and extradepth to the photo as it were an illusion. The colour scheme usedin thiscover followsthe conventional colourscheme of a Q magazine of red,white and black.