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.

Analysing my college contents page

I have tried to capture my student teenage audience by using graphic fonts and bright colours. I have also tried to make this more appealing, by putting each of my contents features on Polaroid photographs stuck with chewing gum to a student dorm room. On these Polaroid’s I have included pictures in which I found from my questionnaire students would be interested in seeing of, young attractive girls, fashion, Facebook and festivals. I would say looking at this contents page it is aimed more towards a young female audience, as the photographs show young attractive females in fashionable clothing. Another reason as to why you can clearly recognise this is aimed towards a younger audience will be through the use of imagery of minimal clothing, alcohol and smoking from one of the models in one photograph making an association with young youth rebellion. I really liked the idea of using gum to stick photographs together and to a student door, as usually young teenagers usually stick gum under tables in high school and also get punished for bad behaviour by gum picking off school tables. I have also used photographs such as festivals and Facebook to capture teenage interests in which from my college questionnaire I found teenagers would most likely want to see. I also tried to use bright colours and show I was focusing on a student magazine which was playful and fun.