Both of these magaziens have images on the contents pages. Vibe has one picture of Chris Brown and he was also on te front page. On the other hand, Q has two pictures and neither of them were on the front page. In the Vibe magazine, the picture has been put as the background with the contents displayed around it. In Q, there's one main picture at the top right corner the one around the center. Then another one at the bottom of the page in the middle. I personally thought that Q had more of a rock genre and more edgy, but with the contents page and the front page, it has proved to be promoting different genres, mainly pop and rock. On the other hand, Vibe did show that it has more of an R&B and Hip-Hop feel to it, but in this case it has empahised more of the R&B genre since the front page shows a well-known R&B artist. This has proved that the type of audience that both of these magazine have proven to be more like the type of people that would listen to those specific genres of music.
The colours that are used in the Q magazine seem to be more of greys and whites that seem to show a more calm feel to the magazine. There are a few headings and subheadings are are in red and most of the writing is in black. It doesn't really stand out much since the contents page has very basic colours. On the other hand, the Vibe magazine doesn't really have any bright colours either. The contents page consists of black and white, with little hints of yellow where the number are. In this case this does support the front page since it didn't really have many other colours such as any reds or electric blues. The main colour that did stand out was the name of the magazine that was written in yellow plus some white writing with a black background. In the Q magazine, it had many colours in the front page, then when it came to the contents page, the choice of colours went slightly softer. This could be because they've already used the front page to grasp the reader's attention so they feel like they might not need as many bright colours as they used in the front page.
In Q, the information has been organised in a manner that first of all shows what's new in the magazine and in this case it's talking about a band, then some offers for getting some tickets. Then after a few more main headings, it has a women's section where it will be promoting female artists and more things that are to the women's taste. Things such as the "10 Most Powerful Women In Music" and a review about Adele. At the bottom of the page there is another review about "The World's Biggest And Best Music Guide". This clearly shows that the magazine is yet again selling itself to the reader since it's ranking itself really high. On the other hand, the Vibe magazine takes a more patriarchal approach to things. It talks quite a bit about masculinity and about men than it did about women. In Q it more or less had the best of both worlds, but in Vibe, it mainly talked about men and masculinity, including people such and Kobe Bryant and Lil Wayne. There are more articles about Hip-Hop/ Rap and other things that talks about the musicians that will be featured in the magazine. In the Q magazine, there is a type of promotional feature, it shows that each month, there will be Q mail and things such as crosswords and Life Lessons being told by Alan Carr. In the Vibe magazine, not so much, if any at all.
In the Vibe magazine, there's the logo at the top of the contents page with some type of bar-code design at the top in the middle of the page. In the Q magazine, the big "Q" is still at the top left corner at the page beside the place where it says "Contents".
The magazines don't really have any franchises that show that the the magazine is sponsored or is sponsoring anything else really.
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