Analysing a magazine cover.

In this short essay i will be analysing a college magazine cover in numerous ways.

Firstly, does the magazine aim towards its targeted audience?

In somewhat ways I would say that this magazine only reaches a few limits on attracting their targeted audience but on most cases it wont, the targeted audience for this magazine is aged 15+ for people who are interested in joining a college.

The reasons why I don't believe that this magazine cover will reach its limits on attracting the targeted audience for the college is the fact that there isn't much information on the front cover, if their were to be information on what the magazine contains it may be a lot more attractive to the targeted audience, such as if they had on the front an area that had text stating some subjects that they do, it may interest some of the targeted audience to read it, as they may do the subject they're hoping for.

Overall their isn't much text thats eye catching other than certain 'Buzz Words' which are : "Special Insert!" and "Global Learning".

Some of the information on the front cover of the magazine I will say is pretty impressive such as the 'Puff' in the bottom left corner, which promotes what is on one of the pages which states how a young man who went to Ridgewater College now has his 'Dream Job' and living in a state that he dreamed of, this may be interesting for the targeted audience since it will most likely contain on the inside of the magazine on how successful the college is.

The colour on the front cover I suppose in some ways is suitable for the targeted audience as they may be more interested on what the college looks like than just big bright colours with lots of 'Buzz Words', but for a magazine to be eye catching I would say they need more colour and maybe 1 or 2 bright 'Buzz Words' just to catch the eye of the audience.

The image they have used!

The image they have used I would say is almost perfect for a college magazine as it is an image of one of their students possibly sitting in one of the study areas they provide within the college, which shows that the college has good facilities and cares enough about their students grades to spend more and more money to make it so they have a quite area for them to do their subject work and/or revise for upcoming exams. The college has used a medium shot which shows us the student sat in a chair smiling and also shows us the mise-en-scene which I will talk about in the oncoming paragraph.

The mise-en-scene!?

The mise-en-scene is very good for a college magazine as it contains a lot of detail, such as the following : Their is a plant in the corner of the room that the student is sitting in and a plant behind her, plants in a room connote to me relaxation, comfort and peace and sort of looks like a nice place to be able to study, their also isn't any real big distractions in the room that could distract the students from doing their work such as their is high key lighting used which connotes to the audience that the area is a happy type of area which overall shows to me that the college yet again consider the students and care about their grades.

What does Ridgewater College consider important?

As iv stated in the previous paragraphs, the college is more concerned and considers all their students graded and they take everything into consideration and overall I would say this is a very good and slightly eye catching in some ways magazine and attracts its targeted audience pretty well.