School magazine analysis: Sennockian

The title of the magazine is called the Sennockian. This is due to the history of the school and where it is. The writing is a very odd font but helps create the idea of the magazine being a very cultural magazine. It covers the whole length of the cover, doing this means it stands out and creates awareness of the school. Having very little text else where on the page enables to make it very easy to find this magazine and makes it stand out very well.

The background of the cover resembles the cultural background of the school. The colour itself is a bright orange and has in the background a picture of religious meaning. All of these show cultural background and help show the idea of what is inside the magazine. 

The picture is an old drawing of a young boy. Unlike other magazines being sold, the Sennockian is keeping its history at the front of the magazine. The picture helps portray the idea of culture and also shows who they expect to read the magazine. The target audience of the magazine would be of either people who are interested in culture and non-fiction or who attends the school.

School magazine analysis: Columbia Law School

The masthead is in the top corner of the page. This creates more room for features or the main articles photos. The font of the masthead isn’t san serif but is just as formal. This is due to the topic of the magazine.  They have presented it as a smart magazine and for well educated people. The target audience for this would be for high achieving intellectual people.

With the whole magazine cover not containing much text the picture takes up most of the customers view. The picture is of scrunched up pieces of paper that you would expect to see in the bin. On the sheets are tax return forms where you enter information about yourself. This vital form is the basis of the main article in the magazine and is directly linked to the title of the magazine.  The colours connote black and white print.

The main colour of the magazine helps the paper merge into one with the cover and creates an effortless look towards the presentation of the cover.

There are very little features for this magazine. This could have been done due to the topic of the magazine. The magazine is about law and politics, these features would be very detailed and the articles would be very boring to any average person. The size of the feature on the page is extremely small. The main feature is right I the middle of the page and is probably the most obvious thing o the page.

School magazine analysis: Chenders

Here the masthead of the magazine is written in informal font and is written across the whole width. Having it so spread out means it’s creating an awareness of the magazine and only helps make the magazine more noticeable. With the font being written in such an informal way it helps attract the chosen target audience of the kids at school.

The features to the right show what is on offer inside. The colour green is used show the theme of the magazine and also presents the magazine as a simple magazine that isn’t an effort to read. Using two colours on the features creates a clash of colour and helps make the features become alot more noticable.

The features on the bottom of the page show information in the magazine that customers would be interested in. Offering information about what is on offer during school means it’s a handy magazine to read. With the colours of white and read being used together they make that feature stand out even more as they are the only pieces of white text.

They used of pictures to link to plugs and main articles. Doing this only improves the interest of the articles as people will have a clearer idea of what it is about. The magazine also has small pictures for the features themself, they offer a bigger glimpse of what is inside the magazine.

On the magazine the plugs are like a sticker, this is less formal and creates a slight relationship between reader and writer. They help show the appealing price and make it known that they could be on offer for a short period of time.