Analysing my college magazine cover

When putting together my college magazine, I tried to use a front image in which I took in the studio that clearly targeted my audience as students through using a young attractive model. I included the features of what would be involved in the magazine coming from each capital of the college name, using the findings from my magazine questionnaire of what people in my college would be interested in reading. To attract the viewer’s attention I have used brightly coloured fonts which advertise a free CD with every issue and a student banner underneath my magazine title. I also used a catchy subtitle putting “East Norfolk goes open”, suggesting that this is a new magazine to be opened for students. I have used graphic fonts of magazine snippets in the title “student gossip” in which my student respondents in my questionnaire stated they wanted. I made sure I included the student sixth form logo and bar code, to make this structured as possible like a magazine should be. I decided to make the first issue free as I found out that many students would not be willing to pay for a college magazine. Whilst putting together my contents and front cover, one aspect I did recognise afterwards was that they needed to match themes, on the basis of fonts, colour scheme and images to look consistent and well structured. Because I had made my contents page before my font cover, my magazine did lack consistantsy with it looking quite busy with ideas.