Double Page spread analysis

Q Magazine

DPS – Q Magazine Interview with Kid Rock

KID

ROCK

1) How does the choice of artist featured in the article suggest who the target audience will be?

American singer-songwriter

2) What type of language is used in the article? Give examples of words or phrases which are specific to the

style of the magazine

Colloquial “That was kinda fresh”Profanity/Uncensored “I thought the movie was fucking hilarious”

3) How is colour used?BLACK – ‘bad boy’=untrustworthy

WHITE - easier to read

RED - Boldness, passion, eyecatching

GOLD – Wealth and value but in context can be seen as trashy.

4) What style of text (font type/colour/size) is used? Is it similar to any other pages? What does it say about

the image of the magazine and the audience?

Serif Font – Times New Roman

Same sort of fonts for Main Body Text

Black, white and red

5) How is the double page spread laid out? How much of the pages are taken up by images and how much by text? How does

this reflect the audience? What do they value?

Rule of Thirds

Eye Flow

Slug CaptionWhite Space

Body Text

Article Title

LeadingText

PullQuote

Page Number

MainImage

Gutter

6) What tone is the magazine using when addressing the reader (as a close friend, a member of an 'in' crowd

or an informed intelligent fan?) - provide evidence

• Close friend • A fan of the artist Asks specific questions that fans Want to know such as controversial Information.E.g. “Would you recommend dating aStripper?”

7) How is the artist/band presented to the audience through the images? You may wish to carry out a

textual analysis.

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8) How does the style of the article match the style of the front cover?

Black, white, blue and red.Image – compositionSerif Font

9) Does the article demand any prior knowledge? Give examples.

“Did you think Pamela was good in the Borat movie”

“First time was for fighting in a strip club [ he was arrested after punching a DJ in Nashville Tennessee in 2005”