analysis of another college magazine

I have found a college magazine called vibe the magazine looks like it has been made by a student because it doesn’t really look professionally done. The magazine I have found looks American, I think this because of the girl on the front cover.

The masthead on this magazine really stands out on the back ground. The background is red and the writing is red, white and yellow. These are a good choice of colours by the creator because it makes the magazine easy to read and also stands out. The photo on the front cover looks like it has been taken by the maker of the magazine and just put on to the cover. It doesn’t seem like much thought has gone into taking this photo although it does stand out a lot and it’s a good idea that the picture isn’t all over the back ground its just on the right side. Because of the picture only been on the right side of the cover this allows text to be on its own and not over lap the photo. Another disadvantage of this magazine is that in the top right corner they is a little splodge of red which looks like they wanted to cover a bit of the masthead with text, but it is not very neatly done.  The contents of the magazine I thought was good by flowing with the same colour scheme it makes the reader feel like the magazine was well thought of and it shows that they are both apart of the same magazine. The institution of this magazine would be the college which the magazine vibe has being created.

I feel that the ideology of this college magazine would be to show the rest of the college that students are doing well, because of the main story on the cover which is STUDENT OF THE MONTH- JADE HYLTON. Using the girls name on the cover shows that they would like to show her off and are very proud of her.The audience of this magazine would be people aged 16 to 19 years old because these would be the majority of ages of students at this college also the girl on the front of the cover only looks young. I feel like the magazine is only targeting women because they isn’t anything to do with men on the cover or in the contents page. This isn’t a very good idea for the college. The images on the front of the magazine shows a positive representation towards the college. The young girl is wearing sensible clothing and has her hair nicely done, although she does have bright red lipstick on which could show different connotations to the young girl, because red lipstick is stereotypically used to attract men.