Feature Page analysis 2

As part of our research for our main task we had to annotate two features pages from music magazines. In our annotation we should be able to identify the key features of each page by analysing so that we could understand and explain how the editors of  the magazine aim to appeal to the target audience.

Images  There is one single image on this page, this is of the featured band Muse. They are all wearing the same suit to emphasise that they are in a band together; and within them lie individuals. All the images on this feature page are posed images. It gives the impression that "Q" magazine is very professional and formal, The audience then remebers that they are reading a magazine rather than it appearing more like a diary or a scrapbook. We can see from the background that this picture is not taken when the band is performing - it is taken from an additional photo shoot possibly back stage. Each photo is posed which doesn't give the reader a chance to understand the band members as normal people rather than celebrities because it is almost as if they are playing a character in the photo. Two of the band members are looking into the camera which is direct address to the audience, this familiarises them with the reader. The image is at the top of the page which directly draws your eyeline to it, this is because the rest of the page is all text.