College Magazine Analysis

This is a front cover of a college magazine. The magazine uses three specific colours red, blue and black. The women on the picture is also wearing colours that are the same used for the text on the magazine. She is wearing a red and white top which looks like perhaps the college football team shirt and blue denim shorts, which fit in with the blue in the colour theme. The woman’s makeup is a neutral look, not a lot of eye makeup, lipstick or foundation this is giving off an overall natural look about her.

The shot of the woman is a medium shot where you are just able to see from up from her legs. It is also focused on her in the foreground, making the background blurry. The font on the front cover is all the same style just either in bold or different colours. Most college bouncers and leaflets have pictures on with the student/students outside on a warm sunny day with a great big smile on their face. This portrays that the college is a happy and healthy environment and that everyone should go there. The magazine its self has various headlines such as ‘Tucker Max, He Better Hope They Serve Beer in Hell’ and ‘A New Kind Of Balancing Act’ are just two headlines that would appeal to the students and make them want to actually read the college magazine. For example the headline ‘Tucker Max, He Better Hope They Serve Beer in Hell’ entices people because it’s an interview with someone everyone knows, someone who is perhaps head boy of team captain? By having this in the magazine people would want to read it to find out want he has said and would aspire to be like him. The other headline example I have talked about is the Campus of the college. This most likely is talking about the campus on the college a map and areas to go and study etc. All of the headlines are enticing to college students as they are informative and funny articles to read. Because of this students are more likely to carry on reading the college magazine more than once. Just like other magazines the barcode is located at the bottom and to one side of the magazine. In this case the bottom right hand corner, with the price in a blue box to match some of the article titles.