Magazine comparisson

Magazine: Kerrang!
Price: £2.10
Pages: 70
Sections: 9
pages per section: 3-6
Sample of advertising: Falloutboy- Infinty on high from HMV, It looks very cheaply advertised, I don't really think that the advert was very eye catching and appealing from the use of dull boring colours.
Typical articles: Nine inch nails, Velvet revolver, Heaven and hell

Positives:

• Great price which will encourage people to buy it as they would be able to afford it,
• Interesting articles that catches the readers eyes when they open to tyhe contents page.

Negatives

• Not as much pages as normal music magazines,
• Not as much sections as normal magazines so there isn't much information,
• Adverts are boring and dull that doesn't catch the readers eyes at all.

Magazine: Q
Price: £3.99
Pages: 146
Sections: 18
pages per section: 1-4
Sample of advertising: Audi looks very expensive, 2 page spread, very eye catching and an amazing image the catches the readers eye.
Empire magazine, £3.99, tv magazine 1 page spread, it looks very expensive.
Typical articles:Mika, Gorrilaz, New to Q, Q quiz, Last requests.

Positives

•  A load of pages which means a lot of information
• A load of sections which also means a load of information, this makes people buy it.
• Expensive advertising, more vibrant, better images, more exciting and eye catching.
• Great articles by top artists and entertainment features such as quizzes.

Negatives

• The only negative is that its a lot of money.

Magazine: Q
Price: £3.90
Pages: 170
Sections: 13
pages per section: 2-20
Sample of advertising: Citroen, it looks very expensive, 2 paged spread. very persuasive, good slogans, vibrant colours.
Typical articles:Who the hell is, The Q quiz, the dice men, elbow

Positives

• A load of pages which means loads of information which makes people buy it because they will know that there is something that they would want to read in there.
• A load of sections so, again a load of information.
• Expensive attractive adverts which attracts the reader,
• A load of pages in each section, which means a lot of information on each subject.

Negatives

• Expensive, which puts people off buying it.

Magazine: XXL
Price: £3.95
Pages: 146
Sections: 10
pages per section: 1-10
Sample of advertising: Nissa, very expensive advert, 1 paged spread.... Mostly clothing adverts. It think that the adverts look really good and very interesting and eye catching.
Typical articles:Sin city, Monsters inc.

Positives

• A load of pages.
• A load of pages per section which means a lot of information per section.
• Really good advertisements.

Negatives

• Not much sections within the magazine.
• Loads of advertisements, but I think that there is too many as it takes away the space for the information.
• Too expensive,
• Not that interesting articles.

In my personal opinion, I feel that the Q magazines are a lot better than the money as you get more for the price, whereas Kerrang! only has 70 pages which isn't much and XXL does have a lot of pages but it contains too much adverts but the articals in there are quite interesting and exclusive.