Research front cover: Q magazine analysis

I have chosen to analyse this image due to the unique front over style. In this image you can see the iconic symbol of the Q logo the Q logo in every magazine is on the left hand side with a red background and a white Q. The colour red is greatly symbolic and polysemous.

In this magazine there is many different indexical signs which have been placed together to create the genre of the Foo Fighters. This genre is of rock or heavy metal. The use of fire in the lead signers mouth can be symbolic for hell or death due, also inside the fire there is the rest of the band, this could represent that he's eaten them all.

The stanza and close shot draws the eye to the singer and the way he seems to be screaming which also relates back to the genre. the writing around the image is white and red also symbolic. The red could could represent hell and the white could represent items such as heaven and peace.

I like this front cover the most out of many I have seen because of the unique and abstract way they have presented the band to draw the reader into buying the magazine.