During the past two lessons we have been in groups analysing music magazines as research. Are group was analysing a Q magazine highlighting the ‘Foo fighters’ whilst the other groups were analysing other music magazines. We had a look at the front cover the contents page and the double page spread (DPS). Here’s an analysis of the magazine; there was a 3 colour scheme throughout the magazine. The front cover was simple in ways and so the main image and masthead really stood out. Whereas, the contents page had more going on and it consisted of 2 pages however, it was quite a thick magazine so that explains that. There were 18 sections overall and the magazine was structured in columns and paragraphs. For our double page spread we analysed an interview. The picture of the person being interview took up one whole page and the other page first started off with a biography followed on by an interview of the person on the picture. What I found really interesting about this magazine was that even though it was a rock magazine the front cover was unruffled. Last of all we came together as a class and group by group we spoke about our individual magazines. What we found out by doing this is that many magazines use the 3 colour scheme and this is only to make it minimal and to attract the audience in a more sophisticated way. This is also a type of branding. The weekly magazines happen to be more formal than the monthly magazines. From the weekly magazines we looked at we gathered that it contained less inside as they don’t have as long as monthly ones and they have more of a minimum amount of money to spend, which is why the weekly magazines consist of one contents page whereas, the monthly magazines consist of two contents pages.