This document analyzes the contents pages and front covers of a college magazine. It discusses design elements like fonts, colors, images and layouts used and how they appeal to the target audience of college students. Specific aspects summarized include the bold masthead logo, use of different font sizes and colors to highlight important content, inclusion of the publication date, natural front cover images that draw the reader in, and a neat table of contents layout that appeals to the demographic.

1. College magazine
analysis of
contents pages
and front covers
and plans for my

2. The Mast head/logo is bold
and easy to read. These
basic aspects makes the
magazine more
The differing font colours and
sizes make different parts
more appealing to the
audience and outline the By the having the date it was
most important content in published people can see if its
the magazine, mostly the old or new. I am going to have
content that will be on the both this and the bar code
double page spread. The which both make the
colours of the text work well magazine more realistic.
with both the background
picture and the main logo on
the masthead. They have
used colours of electric blue
and a vibrant orange, these
may appeal to the kind of
people the magazine it is aim
at; college student which
Like mainly other magazines
have very interesting and
the person on the front
different lifestyles and
cover look straight at the
contrast like the two colours
camera so straight at the
presented on this cover,
person who picks it up. The
making the magazine open to
use of editing to have the
everyone.
persons head in front of the
mast head gives the picture
more of a 3d aspect instead
of just a flat image. The pose
is not intimidating which
give a neutral feel to the
cover, and the colours of the
page (mainly blues) create a
cool and calm feel.

3. Like the cover before, the
image has lost its flatness
by having the head edited
in front of the masthead.
The colour of the shirt and
The background is the masthead and the
blurred to give focus jean shorts and blue text
to the person in the create a anchorage
forefront. It is between the two ideas of
natural and vibrant the brand and then the
in colour which stories within. Also the
makes the magazine way that she is looking at
lighter than the the camera draws the
previous one. audience in and using the
direct mode of address.
Again the use of the
two different
colours for texts
make the text more
interesting than just
one colour making
the text more
stimulating.

4. This vertical line is the same colour as the title
on this page. It gives the page numbers which is
good as it’s the first thing you look at on the
page.
The photos are linked to
the pages with small tags.
The pictures are spread
out on the page.
This flash here looks
like a sticker, its eye
catching with its yellow
circle with black
The text here is small and
writing.
in paragraphs. This implies
the audience does not
need to read this as its not
too important. The
‘recycle’ logo is big
because the magazine
want there reader to
know it is environmentally
friendly in that aspect.

5. This is also formal as it is called the ‘table of contents’
instead d of ‘what's inside’ or ‘in this issue’. Its sound
more upmarket and official.
This page is neat and
looks more adult like
than the other
contents page that I
The pictures are linking have analysed. I think
to the pages with the this would appeal to
numbers presented the target
here. demographic of
teenagers as they are
commonly said to
want to be ‘treated
like adults’.
The format is basic and easy to
understand. The black and white make
the magazine more formal than the
previous contents page.

6. 1
2
Masthead
Masthead
Main article
Main article
Other article
Other article
Other article student
student
Other article

7. tta-tag to article Page number and
1 2 what is inside here
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