Q and NME
Front cover-

Image: There is only one image placed on the front cover, which is a picture of Cheryl Cole, this is used to drag the audience in, as Cheryl Cole is a world wide known sex symbol. Males want her and Females want to be her.
This is very different from my other magazine NME. This is dominated again by one image, however there is a tiny image placed in the masthead. The My Chemical Romance image is not used as a Sex symbol, but as the report is about their comeback it gives more of a "We are back and we mean business" look about it.

Font: Many differnt fonts and styles are used on the front cover, the main heading is well portrayed and has many meanings.
3 Words... is the name of her album
Cheryl Cole... her name and who is being interviewed
R O C K S... this says that she is cool and fun to interview but also Q is mainly a rock magazine so saying that she Rocks meant she suits the style of the magazine.

The title is Bold which sticks out to the readers eye, this is a very famous brand name, so when people see it, it will always attract their eye towards it.

For NME it follows the same suit, like Q there are 3 main colours used ( RED WHITE BLACK). With Q being RED WHITE GREY, all headings are used with block capitals which makes it stand out to the reader, with all sub-headings in a more traditional written form.

Masthead: For Q it is totally dominated by one person, Cheryl Cole, everything else seems to fall around her. This works perfectly for the magazine as she is meant to dominate and she most certainly does!

NME is slightly different because the way that the My Chemical Romance Picture is featured, it is trying to be pushed to the back and out of the way, so I believe that even though it is the main part of the front cover, all headings around it are being made to be stick out more to the reader.