research into one real music magazine

After researching lots of different genres of music magazine, i then wanted to research one particular real music magazine that i wanted to base my own music magazine on. I chose “Q” magazine for my research because i felt that it was for a mature target audience and it includes a variety of music genres on the magazine which is something i wanted to include on my magazine. I printed off a number of the “Q” magazine front covers and i began to analyse around the sides. I took note of the layout, colour scheme, mode of address etc so that i could take note about features to include for my own music magazine. There was one particular edition of ‘Q’ magazine which i really liked and it influenced my thoughts and ideas about my own music magazine. This was of ‘Coldplay’ as the central image. The mode of address was direct and the background was just black. There was bright red arrows pointing to impressive straplines such as, ‘FREE CD!’ It influenced me because i decided that i wanted a band as the main central image for my own music magazine front cover. I also wanted to have a simple colour scheme like the edition of ‘Q’ with just white, grey black and then a brighter colour, perhaps red or purple?