Friday, 22 October 2010

analysis of a college magazine

I have found another college magazine, this one is called The college issue. This magazine looks professionally done although it could be a students work and really stands out. It was published in New York, you can tell this because at the top of the magazine it says the new York times magazine.


The masthead of this magazine is in the centre, the publisher of this magazine has chose to put the masthead in black writing and its on a light blue and light pick back ground. The whole of the magazine is different colours because its like one big collage, but they have chose to do the light colours behind the masthead so that it stands out. I think that doing a collage was a good idea, it is very striking which attracts people to the magazine. Where the magazine has text on the front its on a yellow back ground with black writing this is also good and stands out. A disadvantage of this front cover is that it looks a bit messy and a bit all over and some things on the front are hard to see. They is no specification to what the institution of this magazine would be, but we do know that it’s a college magazine and it is from New York.


The ideology of this magazine could be to show teachers and other students pupils work if it is done by a pupil, this is also not very clear because we don’t know who has made the magazine.
The audience of the magazine would be students of this college which will be aged between 16 and 19. The magazine could also be targeted at teacher and also pupils that might be wanting to come to this college in the future. I feel the magazine could be aimed at men and women because they isn’t a specific colour scheme that would target men or women also they isn’t any pictures that would be aimed more to females or males. This magazine has a positive representation towards this college. The images that you can see on the back ground are of people playing games such as basketball and then they is a young girl on the back ground I would say she was about 16-17 years old.

Over all I think that they magazine is good, and representative of the college.

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