I am going to be analysing the current double page spread features in Q magazine. A typical house style of red is used in this double page spread with the sub heading in bold red righting. Even the use of the drop capital/box is in red. The Key image used doesn't look like it has been professionally taken it looks like it could have been taken by anybody. Also the men on the picture look very casual and look like they have just got out of bed even thought they are probably caked in layers of make up this helps with the male gaze men cannot come across as sex symbols in magazines like this. Men need to come across as effortless to make the male readers feel like they can look like that too. It also needs to steer clear of the homoerotic gestures. The men unlike woman in the magazine gave not been stylised. A graphic and quotation is used on the key image to fill a large gap on the key image and also the quotation links the the interview in the copy. The headline is "The soundtrack of my life which links to the picture because of the number of soundtracks on the floor. In the copy the Magazine have put the Questions in bold and the person who is speaking name in bold so it is easier for the reader to identify who is saying what. All the questions and answers are done in columns to make it seem like it is less of an effort to read it. Also all of the lead paragraph is in bold and the use of colloquialism is used with words such as "crap". The register is very straight forward and easy to understand. At the bottom of the second page is a timeline for the interview hi-lighting the key things the interviewee had mentioned just to save the reader time.
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