Analysing College Magazine Covers

This college magazine features a Masthead which is located in the top left, as well as a college student who looks to be a popular student, due to her name being mentioned in one of the sub-headings, 'Nastia' the way she looks portrays her to be a hardworking student, with a love for the college she is at, this is shown by the i<3smu shirt she is wearing, the shirt's colour is also the same as the title, to show that this is linked to the college. The barcode is placed in the bottom right along with the price '100% FREE' this is more than likely to encourage college students to read the magazine and learn about events around the college. Also the background of the photo is blurred out to focus attention on Nastia, however the background is more than likely a picture of the campus which looks appealing to any prospective students who might pick up the magazine to help decide their college future. Also the sub-heading of 'He better hope they serve beer in hell' could relate to the fact that college students are seen to be at times, rebellious, unruly, drunken and bad people, especially if they have a different image to other people in the town/city they're local to, however because Nastia is in denim shorts and a t-shirt it would attract male attention. The magazines colour scheme features red, blue and black so it's not overly complicated and simple for people to understand however it does have a variety of different text styles, with bold making up the sub-headings and italics included for the title of a television show.

  This magazine cover has a Masthead at the top of the cover which stretches across to show it clearly, this magazine also has the price and barcode in the bottom left instead of the bottom right like the other had, the main image of this cover is of a male student who has a book which is titles 'Law and Society' this is to show that the students at this particular college are educated in higher subjects than other colleges. The cover also has an advertisement for paintballing in the form of a pink splat, this draws the readers attention away from the otherwise uniform yellow, black and white colour scheme, due to the smart and organised nature of this magazine cover along with the 'Law and Society' textbook it shows that they might be trying to attract a distinct calibur of student that is suitable for higher learning. As well as this, the 'Make money on campus' section could show that they want to show that their students want to achieve and succeed in the way that they specialise in, this goes along with the higher calibur of student, due to the fact that people who know what they want will usually do what they need to in order to achieve it.