James Weston AS Media Studies: October 2012

Front Cover:

The conventions of a typical college magazine are things like the masthead, main image, Sell line Colour Scheme, Font and the Headline. The best mastheads are the ones that stand out the most from the background because it juxtaposes it there for clashing with the background and standing o0ut more like black and white does. The main image has to be simple but effective. For example if there’s to much going on in the background or in the hole image then it takes the focus away from the information on the cover and also the point of the magazine. Therefore the simpler the better for example someone holding books near the ‘Wyke’ sign. The sell line is useful because it draw people into the magazine because they want to know about something so you buy the magazine to find out the information. The headline of the magazine is the what the magazine is mostly going to focus on. For example maybe the school uniform or changes to the college that people what your views on. The camera angles used on this magazine is just a straight forward mid shot of a guy holding some books with a plain background so that all the focus is on him. The magazines colour scheme is black, white and also yellow. These colours work well because they are really big opposites of each other which means the clash making them stand out much more than normal. The company in charge of printing the magazine is the college itself. What the magazine tells me that going to this college you are prepared to work hard and do well because he’s holding some books showing that he’s ready to work and also that he’s smiling about it shows that he’s enjoying it. You can tell that this magazine is aimed at people of the ages 15+ the reason for this is because it won’t just be people at the college wanting to buy it but I may give people an idea of how good the college is before they join it, but you can tell this because of the language used in to extremely simple for little children but now to formal like an information booklet. That way it may influence the younger aged audience to read it.

Content Page:

The conventions of a typical contents page are things such as a simple lay out, with a min image, what the magazine has to offer and an insite to the exclusive part in the magazine. There tends to be a background image or even a image of the main selling point of your magazine that relates to it. In this magazine they have chosen to separate it out with different text boxes to spread out the various types of stories within the magazine. For this magazine the most likely people to have printed this magazine are a big printing firm where the magazine could get a good deal. What this magazine tells me as soon as I look at the content page is that its varied all all ages and at all different types of peoples music trends. I’d say that this magazine would be aimed at any aged people who can read well and really enjoy there music and would love to know more about what's going on in the music world.