Comparison Three



Both mine and Q magazine have a grey-like background. I did think of going for a whit background as I was originally having a bold, rock magazine but as I changed it to a more vintage look I needed it to still be a pale colour but not quite as bright and plain as white. Also, the shadows on the panthers is like my shadow at the back of my models head, I thought it gave it more depth and life, therefore making it look more real.

Once again there's the animalistic style used for a female model, but Q used more vicious animals to show the 'beast' in 'sexy beast' which is almost a play on words really. Obviously my animals were limited unfortunately so I could not go as far as that but I didn't really want to anyway, because although I wanted to stick to the animals and females stereotype of magazines, I also wanted to fight it a bit by not making it such a prominent thing on my cover as I think that a woman can be appealing and look 'sexy' without some big scary animal and it can be something simple. That's also why I made sure my model was not wearing as little clothes as Q's model is, I thought that she could still be just as attractive with clothes on and that this might attract a bit more of a female audience who might not buy these magazines due to the sexist connotations. But to keep that appeal to the men buying the magazines she is wearing a crop top so a bit of her skin is on show and she is wearing fishnet style tights but with red tights underneath. The red represents that tough but sexy idea and is eye catching. Although these things can't be seen in the main image but in the images at the bottom and in the contents page it can, so it's like a bribe to people to buy the magazine if that's what they want to see.

This magazine sticks to the black bar at the bottom like mine and the bar code in the right corner, but it is all slightly more organised, the name of the model and the sell lines are all completely straight and some things are very bold. This gives it a clean cut look where as I needed mine to look slightly more rough, but Q uses the animals to toughen it up.