Analyis of Q magazine front cover

This front cover shows that it is mainly aimed at an age range of about 16-30. This front cover makes this magazine look like it can be aimed at male and female audience, but mainly male as the image on the cover would attract more male than female. They have used at the most 3 colours on this front cover, red, white, and black. They have used red so it stands out from the other colours and therefore the magazine stands out. They have used a blank background suggesting that they want you to focus more on the main image than the background. They also want you to explore the headlines more than the background. The main image is of Lady Gaga and she has no facial expression. She has very little clothes on suggesting that this magazine wants to attract more of a male audience than a female. This magazine is more aimed at a white British society that is in the lower middle class and the skilled middle class. This image is sexy; it is trying to draw in a male audience by having Lady Gaga wearing very little clothes and cover up her certain parts of her body. This also works by making her the centre of the frame and having no background. My eyes explore the frame by the different colours, my eyes go from red to black and lastly white. The shot distance of this image is a Mid-Long Shot (MLS). The camera angle is directly at her eye level. Everything in this image is in focus suggesting that they want the audience to focus on everything within the cover. There is a lot of light on her which would normally connotes goodness, but as she is wearing black leather gloves making her fingers look sharp and long and she is wearing black spiky trousers which connote bad. Having Lady Gaga’s name in a large font suggests that she is the main feature of this magazine. The colour of Lady Gaga’s name is in white which normally connotes goodness and innocence, but she is half naked on the front cover of a magazine with black clothing on which connotes the complete opposite.