Planning

I am creating a student magazine aimed at a either a female or male audience, ranging from the ages of 16-21. The magazine is a student magazine and the audience we are aiming to appeal to is post-modernists and hedonists as most students want to enjoy life as it is now and have fun and play and work later. So this magazine has to connote fun and enjoyment and link in with a student life style.

The masthead denotes 'Student Zone' and will be positioned along the top, left hand side of the page above the main sell. The type of text we will use will be a sans-seriff and will be red to make it be bold and stand out.

The main sell of the magazine will denote a picture of a male student, slouched against a brick wall, topless. He will have his head tilted upwards and will be staring at the camera. This connotes rebellion and mischieve. The fact he is topless connotes sexual availability and will there for appeal to the female audience. Also having a young male student will connote fashion, fun, youthfullness, freedom and enjoyment which is typical of a teenage student.

Our magazine will always include cover lines which will use a different and smaller font to the masthead, and they will be written in black so they are clear and easy to understand, as well as a date an issues number, a price which will appear to a student so not too expensive and finally a bar code.

Preliminary Task Research

This is the student magazine 'The National Student Magazine.' The part of the masthead 'The National Student' is written in blue capital letters in a sans serif font and the 'magazine' part is writen in lower case, sans serif, orange writing. At the bottom of the page is listed whats in magazine, this is written in orange sans serif text. The cover line is also written in the same colours used for all the text through out the magazine cover. The main sell denotes a picture of three men in a band called 'The Kooks.'

This is an image of a student magazine 'DIRECTION'. The masthead is in orange sans serif text style and postitioned at the top of the page and the last letter 'N' is the colour green. The use of these colours make the magazine bold and stand out against the main sell which denotes two male students sitting on the floor slouching against a wall, which connotes rebellion and masculinity. The cover lines use the same colours as the masthead which makes them clear and easy to understand.

This student magazine 'tell!' uses a screamer on the masthead, which is written in white serif text on a black speak bubble. The cover lines use the same style of font and colours. This makes the magazine look well presented. On the other hand the main sell of this magazine uses very bright colours and the picture its self is rather cluttered and there is alot going on so the use of the bold text makes it stand out against the main sell. The main image denotes a woman on a merry-go-round. This connotes friendliness and would attract a female audience. The pink cover lines are reversed out and to make the main selling point of the magazine stand out even more they have written individual words in yellow.

College Magazine Analysis

The main sell on each magazine features smiling students and uses bright colours in both the text and images. The masthead is clearly presented and positioned at the top of the page. They also all use modern language in their cover lines.

I would prefer to read the 'Current' magazine as I consider myself as a caring person and would be interested to read about ways of saving the planet, instead if reading about celebrity fashion.

'Mizz Glam' magazine would appeal to students who care and worry about their appearance and are interested in fashion and the latest trends. Aspirers would read this type of magazine as they aspire to look fashionable so as to move up the social scale.
The use of the colours orange, pink and red connotes a girly style. The main image of a female student holding files connotes that you can still look fashionable even when in education. The masthead is in a pink serif font which connotes a feminine style.