Analysis of magazine cover

This magazine is clearly aimed at a specific type of target audience which i believe to be females, aged 16 - 35 who are specifically interested in fashion. I think this because of the content of the front of the page, such as "300+ high street buys" and "the hottest accessories to update your look". The model on the front (Alexa Chung) is in a black and white, is a medium close up and in a high fashion pose leaning her shoulders inwards and her hands on her hips. This pose if reflecting the theme of the magazine reflecting as also it says on the front which very large, bold font "high street". She seems to be static in this position and it is a very glamorous shot. She is wearing a dress which seems to be made out of metal, which matches the tone of her skin an colour of her hair. The metal could be to suggest the strong powerful nature of the woman and the magazine. Her head is covering one of the L's of the title of the magazine ELLE. This shows the magazine is so well known the editors can afford to risk covering up part of the name and also makes her the full focus of the magazine. The colour of some of the fonts also matches the tones and colours of the model, a sort of monochrome grey, instantly linking to two together. Yet some of the other more bold font is in a very contrasting mint green, to make the cover more exciting and appealing to the eye.

Original images before editing that i was going to use for my magazine

Language - This is everything that will be included in the magazine and are created for a suitable target audience, this is including photographs, fonts, headlines, texts colours, arrangement and layouts.

Institution - The college is for 16-19 year old's, primarily from the East Riding.

Ideology - The message that Wyke College conveys to it's students.

Audience - Who the magazine is designed for. Mainly 16-19 year old students, but also the college staff, future students and parents.

Representation - The way that the people in my magazine will be shown (e.g. through still images). Students, possibly studying or socializing within the college.

Analysis of secondary school magazine front coverThis magazine cover shows by use of text and images that it is aimed at the target audience, secondary teachers. It has a very classroom, school feel to it as the main image is two ginger bread men decorated with a school uniform design. the image is anchored to the title of the main article, as in large white font, central of the magazine it says "cook with me!". The person also holding the tray of ginger bread men has a school tie and is in uniform, directly in the center of the magazine cover. The colour of the uniform, a dark red matches the colour of some of the font at the very top of the cover, linking them both. The main title of the magazine is a completely different colour to any other part of it, making it stand our drawing attention to it. Just above it, slightly covering one of the letters is a smaller image of students, it is an action shot of them moving which gives a sense of energy to the magazine. The sub titles are short and quick to the point as the magazine does not have much text on the cover. They are all teacher inspriring titles such as "the playground that gets girls moving". The message it seems to want to get accross is that teaching is fun, exciting and inspriring as the simplicity of the cover as well as the image of cookies, not something directly linked with education, all seems ot suggest this.