Music Magazine: Article Analysis

The following articles that I have researched about, I hope to use many of their ideas to incorporate in my future music magazine.

This is a two page spread from the magazine 'Q'. It is a two page spread interview on two artists (Xavier de Rosney and Gaspard Auge) from the group Justice. The first side of the two page spread is dominated by a picture of the two, around a record player. This shows the reader what the artists look like and what type of music they like. There is also a caption in the middle of the picture that says "I loved that Snoop Dogg was wanted for murder". This shows the reader what is likely to be said in the interview and what opinions the artist (Xavier de Rosney) has. On the second page of the spread, it consists of the interview. The main colour scheme of this side of the spread is red, black and white. White is used as a background colour, black is used as the main body text and red is used to highlight the important information of the article e.g. headings and other titles. The interview is split up into paragraphs to show the change in question/topic and to make it easier and more appealing for people to look at. At the bottom of the second page, it shows the so called Justice's 'Musical Routemap', that outlines the groups first albums they have bought and what music they enjoy. 

This is an two page article from the magazine 'NME' and it is an article on the rock group The Vaccines. Similarly to the previous article, The whole of the first page of the spread (and one third of the second) is dominated by a picture of the band with all their instruments. This shows the reader how many people there are in the band and what instruments they play. Unlike the previous article, the main image has been edited to look quite old and dirty. This shows what type of band they are (e.g. metal, rock). The second page consists of the interview with the band. Similarly to the 'Q' the main colour scheme is white and black used as the background and body font respectively. The only change is that the colour red has been changed to blue from red, and is also used to highlight headings and important information. Similarly to Q magazine the page is split into paragraphs to show a change in topic and make it easier for people to read.

My final magazine that I have used for analysis, is an article from 'MOJO' magazine. It is a countdown of 'The 50 Greatest Neil Young Songs'. Unlike the previous two magazines, the main image of this magazine is on the right-hand side of the double page spread. It shows him holding a guitar and singing. This is there to show what type of musician Neil Young is and what instruments he plays. Unlike the previous two magazine articles, the colour scheme is almost the complete opposite with black being the main background colour and white being used as main body font. Similarly to the other magazine articles, the main information being highlighted in a different colour (gold) to stand out. As this article is the complete opposite of the other articles this would suggest it is apart of a special edition of the magazine. On the first page of the article there is a quote from the artist (Neil Young) that cover almost the top half of the page, that says "Be There, Be There Now, Be In It" This is used to show what is said in the article to show what Neil Young has said.