Examples of Existing College Magazines

This magazine is called 'College Sport' it has a strong Masthead that really stands out which is a convention of a magazine. Its pretty obvious to work out the target audience for this magazine and what kind of articles and text will be inside. We can work this out by just looking at the cover, College Sports. This magazine includes many of the conventions of a magazine such as, a Masthead, Feature stories, Barcode, Dateline, Sell line and also images. All conventions are realy important as its what pople expect to see on a magazine, I will be sure to include as many as I can on my College Magazine Front Cover.

This magazine 'College' has a lot of the conventions of a college magazine such as, a masthead placed centrally at the top of the cover, which stands out because of the large bold red text used. This cover includes plenty of feature stories, which will be suited to the magazine target audience, which will catch their eye, making them want to read the magazine. Theres the barcode in the left bottom corner which all magazines will have. In my magazine, I will be sure to make my Masthead large and bold as I think this is a really important part of the magazine, in my opinion this is what you look at first.

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Conventions of a College/School Magazine Contents Page

Conventions of a College Magazine Contents page using LIIAR

The Language is used to attract the specific target audience, this is done by the conventions of the magazine. This particular contents page has images of school students, in different environments, all enjoying their selves, for example in the top left corner, the students are eager to learn, looking happy and well presented in their neat uniforms, as they are in the top right images also. This image of neat uniforms presents the school really well, as they look ready for education, tidy and presentable. The look as if they want to represent their school in a positive way. Which will attract the target audience of other students and maybe parents as this is how they would wish a school to be. These different environments in the images all link in with the articles as we can see the page numbers for the articles that match up with these images have been placed on the side of them. These environments look very different to the typical class room lessons that usually take place, this will encourage the audience to look up the articles to find out more. The particular colour scheme used throughout the contents page links with the colours of the magazine Masthead, as we can see from the top left image. These colours are bight, eye catching and really refreshing, this will catch the attention of the target audience and draw them in. The adverts at the bottom of the page, show that the school has links with certain company's such as Recycle, which gives of a positive message to the audience as recycling is helping with the environment.

      The Ideology of this contents page is to navigate the audience around the magazine, page numbers are attached to all articles and images so the location of all these are easy to find, all of these page numbers are surrounded with the colour turquoise so they stand out easily to the audience. 

     The Institution is the magazine which we can see from the top left image is called Secondary.

     The Audience is attracted by the images, text and articles of the magazine, this magazines target audience would obviously be students of this school, parents or maybe people looking into going to this school. The bright colours used throughout this contents page help pull in the audience, as school could maybe be seen as a boring thing to some students, these colours will keep them interested and keen to keep reading. The layout of this contents page is neat and easy to understand for all of its target audience, this will also help them navigate around the magazine. 

       The Representation of the contents page is really important as this shows all article titles, images and basically whats in the magazine, if this page had a dull, boring layout the audience would pay no attention or have no interest in going through the magazine at all. So this is why this magazine has used a decent sized text to display all the article titles, colour to make then stand out and exciting rather than just plain black and white. The titles of the page are put in larger writing to stand out as this title sums the whole page up and tell us straight away what you are about to read, which in this case is the contents.  

Contents Analysis of a Front Cover of a College Magazine



The Language is used to attract the specific target audience, this is done by the conventions of the magazine. For example this magazine has a Masthead which is 'College' this is obviously aimed at the target audience, as the audience are probably going to be college students. The colour used for the masthead is red, which is an exciting eye catching colour which will attract the magazines specific audience. The colour red is also linked with the Image of the girl who is wearing a red top with text reading I heart SMU, which I can see is the initials of the college from one of the feature stories on the cover, this shows 'team spirit'. A medium close up is used for this image to show the girls emotion, the girl looks happy, this is how the college want to portray their students. This model was probably chosen because shes of student age, she looks like the typical college student, she looks fresh and pretty, this will attract other college students, as this is how they might want to be. She is looking straight at the camera to also draw the audience in. The setting of this image, is bright, lively and free which is represented by the use of the colour green. It must be warm as thr girl in the image is wearing shorts, if the photograph was captured in miserable weather, it wouldn't let off a happy, bright image.
    This magazine is to promote the college SMU, the Ideology behind this magazine is to do with education and student life at the college. So the Language used for this magazine helps us see the Ideology of the magazine. For example, the model credit of this magazine shows a happy, fresh young student, wearing a top that says ‘I heart SMU’ this will make the audience believe that the student in the image is enjoying this college and is in education.
    The Institution of this magazine is the School who have published the magazine, so for this magazine the institution would be SMU College. Which is shown through the text on the model credits top, and also in the main coverline 'Nastia Liukin on SMU's Campus'.
    The Audience is who is going to be reading the magazine, so for this particular magazine it will probably be students of this college or students who are thinking of going to this college. The text is used in a particular font, language and topic suitable for the audience, so they can relate and will be interested in the magazine. For this particular college magazine, the text for the Masthead is red I think this could probably be the color that represents SMU College, as this is the color of the shirt the girl in the image is wearing. The text is easy to read, but not boring as the text is red, its exciting and eye catching. The feature stories are interesting and maybe relevant to the target audience for example 'The secret life of the American teenager'. Some of the feature stories are also about the college like 'Nastia Liukin on SMU's Campus' so the students of this college will want to find out whats happening, the 'gossip' so will want to read through this story.
    The Representation of this magazine is to show its audience what the college is like and the students thoughts of the college. This is done really well by using this particular image. which shows a happy young girl, wearing a shirt to do with the college, this shows shes proud to attend SMU and she is also happy to be there and enjoying it.           

   

Conventions of a College Magazine