Group task: Analysing music magazines

On the 22nd and 23rd September, I was working in a group, analysing music magazines as research. We looked at the Q magazine featuring the Foo Fighters while other groups, analysed other music magazines. We looked at the contents page and DPS (double page spread) and front cover. Here is the analysis of the Q magazine: The magazine we looked at had 2 pages of contents as this was quite a thick magazine. All of the editorial items were listed as there were page numbers. There were several of columns and 18 sections. There were three colour schemes throughout the magazine and the lighting was bright. When we were looking at the magazines DPS there were a lot of columns and it contained a biography and then an interview and also a full picture. There were also a lot of paragraphs. The front cover was a long shot view and the framing was rectangle. Here are the common things we found in the magazine we all looked at as a class: Most of the magazines had branding on them so for e.g. the masthead was at the bottom of every page in a much smaller font. What we also found is that there were three colour schemes in most of the magazines and this is to make the it minimal however attract the audience in a sophisticated way and also this is a type of branding. Most of the magazines were informal however the weekly magazines were a bit more formal. In the weekly magazines we looked at, there were only one content and the monthly magazines had about two pages of content, the weekly magazines had one page of content as they do not have as much as time as the monthly magazine and maybe have less money to spend.