LIIAR analysis of 3 college magazines

 grimsby college magazine

Language

The masthead in this magazine is bold and eycatching. The masthead stands out because the coulor behind it is a different coulor. On the cover of this magazine, not a lot of range of colors is used with blue, gray and white being the dominanat colours. The viwer of this magazine is immediatley drawn to the image of the man and the woman on the cover, the magazine depicts  the man and the woman are of what they probably believe the average student acts, dresses like. the image on the cover is not a real photograph but sort of a cartoon image, they are depicted as cool and stylish. in contrast, the contents page has a lot more colour on it, the contents page also has images, they could be improved by syaing which images relate to which story on the contents page. The layout of the contents page is overall better than the cover, the colours match more and overall looks better than the cover.

Ideoligy

The ideoligy behind this college magazine is to inform people what goes on at grimsby college, on the cover it also says “ the word on the street”, this could mean that it itells people about what is currently the word on the street or maybe they take the magazine as the word on the street.

Institute

The institution of this magazine is not clearly shown, but at the bottom of the cover it says “THE GRIMBY INSTITUTE of futher & higher education”. This could mean that the institution of this magazine is the grimsby institute.

Audience

The target audience for this magazine is students or even students that are wishing to enrol, they are informed of what is currently going on. Besides informing its audience about things to do with the college, the magazine also has articles about the social aspects of college life such as students that are facing financial problems and students that in a family crisis.

Representation

The representation of this magazine is to show the audience of this magazine that the college is fun and has a relaxed atmosphere( connotation taken from image).the cover also has blue as a background, which has posotive connotations, which can make the audience believe that is is aposotve and great college.

East Riding College

Student Life Magazine

Language

In terms of language on the front cover of student life magazine, there isnt much. There is just the masthead, issue date/month, college name and it also tells the audience that the magazine is free. The masthead on the cover is not very attracting and is relativley small compared to the space behind it that could have been used. The image on the cover is also not very appealing and doesn’t depict the college of being very social and in fact looks quite dull. There is also a lot of space at the bottom of the cover that is not used which also makes the name of the college that is there  look quite small. Not a lot of colour has been used on the cover with black and white being the only colours.they have kept a consistent house style with black and white.

On the contents page however, they have used more colour and even have quite a few images, the have used the colour green that covers the writing on the contents page, this makes the writing stand out, if their goal was to  make the writing stand out to the audience, then that is exactly what it does, but the colour green does not look verty attractive in a page full not very dominating colours such as bright green. Also the border on the images used is aslo different sizes which makes the contents page look unprofessional.te images also do not have captions, so the audience isnt told which picture relates to which story.the contents page does sort of follow the house style but, the added colour is green, this could have been added to make it stand out, in which case they have succeded in doing so. The colour gree however does not follow the house style and doesn’t look very attractive.

Ideoligy

The ideoligy behind this magazine Is to inform the audience about east riding college and the things going on there, if a student is willing to enrol in this college it could give an idea of srudent life and how things work at east riding college  

Institute

The institution of this magazine is East Riding College as it Is said on the bottom of the cover

Audience

The target audience for this magazine is students that are currently attending east riding college or even people that are wishing to enrol there.

Representation

The representation of this magazine is to show people what it is like and how it feels to sudy at East Riding College.the content page of the magazine represents the college as happy and in a positive way,which can be took from the images of students smiling. The cover of the magazine is cmpletely different, it is potrayed negatively with colours such as black and white which can be associated with sadness.the image on cover also shows what seems to a group of students with their backs turned to the camera, this means that the audience cannot see the facial expressions of the students, which means the way they are feeling is unpredictable.

King Ed's magazine 

 

Language

The masthead is a dominating factor in this cover of the magazine. It is bold, colourful and straight away attracts the attention of the viewer. The image  on the cover also attrats the viewer, the image of a student looking intrigued  will be appealing to the viewer because it sends a happy tone, which the audience can relate to because college should be a happy time. On the left side of the cover, the headlines are shown, the headlines are short, snappy and colourfull. They don’t give too much information away and compell the viewer to carry on reading the magazine to find out about the stories. The magazine overall gives professional look, but it doesn’t have a barcode and doesn’t inform the viewer of the price. The contents page is also very bright and colourful, the contents page is very simple but also effective. On the contents page it has a ‘word from the editor’ which gives the magazine a professional look as most magazines have this on their contents page.

Institution

The institution of this magazine would be King Ed’s sixth form college. This magazine was made to promote themselves in the college.

Ideoligy

The ideoligy behind this magazine is probably to introduce new students to the college as on the contents page it shows a range of courses available at the college. It may be to also show that King Ed’s college is happy college and serious about eduation as shown by the headlines.

Audience

The audience of this magazine will be 16-19 year olds (college students), because it is a magazine made for the college and its students.

Representation

This magazine represents King Ed’s as a warm, happy and serious about education college. They have used bright and colourful  colours such as red, blue, green and yellow which all gaive a welcoming feeling and have posotive connotations.