Q magazine analysis

Q magazine is an alternative music magazine. its published monthly in the UK; the company that publishes it is Bauer Consermer Media. The target audience for Q magazine are the older generation such as people in their 30's and 40's who are looking for a different type of read which s more relaxed and sophisticated, for those who simply want to know more about the music instead of what colour pants their favourite band is wearing. Although the magazines publishers say that they want to appeal to all the older genereation, it seems that Q magazine doesnt appeal to that catorgery as much as adults in their midlife. Q magazine does not really appeal to many women of this age this may be because of the music featured which is more older school rock, which is not very feminine.

MOJO Magazine analysis

Review of my problem page and Unit

Review of my problem page:

What went well: I personally thought that the design on my problem page works well, as it is striking, non-sexist, easy to navigate around and the colours are calming not bright and sickly. The reason for choosing such colours was because the main colour orange is a calm colour and it goes very well against the plain white background, making my problem page look professional and up to date. Also I believe that the articles that I made up work well with the fell of the overall magazine, especially the Question and Answer part of my problem page, which in the real world would really supply support for those in need of it.

What challenged me: To be perfectly honest not much really was out of my comfort zone at all, as I mainly used word processor to do most of the work I created in this unit, therefore creating the overall unit was somewhat easy. Although the analysis and writing part I did find quite tedious and difficult, as I have never had to go into so much detail about one magazine page before, picking out all of the very small but key things therefore that part was very time consuming. The final part I found challenging was managing my time, as I don’t believe I completed enough of the work in lessons therefore was pushed for time over the weekend, this meant I had less free time and of course would of had this time if I would have spent more time in lessons completing the work and concentrating more.

Why did I choose the type of design for my page: The reason for designing my problem page in the way I did was because I thought I should design a page that enticed the target audience by looking the part, with a calming but up to date main colour, which really stands out if you were flipping through a magazine.

Reflection of whole process: Overall I thought I did quite well in this Unit as my work seems to be up to scratch with the given criteria given, therefore I believe that I could not really of done anymore to make this Unit better than it is, as I used all assets I had to complete it.

finished problem page

mock up of problem page

plan of name slogan etc

my target audience for problem page

analysis of problem page

review of three problem pages

Reviewing the three problem pages:

All three of the problem pages for starters have very feminine coloration's and therefore you can see straight away that the target audience that these pages are aimed at are female. For example pinks and purples have been used, light blues and reds, which are all colours we would associate with women. The images that have been used on all three of the problem pages are all very women based as they are either of women or things related to females e.g. baby’s, or a handsome man (Dr.Christian Jessen, from embarrassing bodies) therefore from this you can already tell whom it is aimed at.

 

The type of writing method used is almost in formal as it is as if it is a mothers meeting and they are all chatting away very casually giving each other helpful advice and tips for example problem page 1 is there to try and support and help women with problems either with children or family members. With problem page 2 it is also very similar as page 1 as it is about family problems and trying to give mothers support. In problem page 3 it mainly focusses on how to keep healthy and embarrassing medical problems to give advice to women who do not want to go to their doctors or star on TV.

All three have strap lines about advice for example problem page 1 has a strapline of page 2 has 'family dilemmas’ and page 3 has therefore this shows that these pages have all been made to help the reader and give them comforting advice which is both helpful and to the point but as the same time friendly. The way the magazines have done is both through the friendly chirpy images used and the calming happy colours around the text boxes and the whole page.

Pages one and two both have comforting openings on the left hand side asking the reader if they have any problems, which lets the reader know the page has been made to help. From all these points the target audience can clearly be seen as firstly females, and secondly it is clear that it is aimed at women from 30 and 

upwards as the pages are mainly talking about family life and situations.

On problem page three they have a celebrity clinic so that the reader feels in touch and on the same level as that certain celebrity almost to let the reader know they have something in common with the A list life. Although this is not the case for pages 1 and 2 showing that maybe the magazine that features page three is a bit more gossipy and popular to mums and women.

In conclusion to these reviews all three pages are aimed at women with families who need help in civil dilemmas or medical situation which they are concerned about or too shy to go to their local do.