Preliminary Task - Planning

Connotations for my magazine are:
Sporty
Entertaining
Lively
Informal
Amusing
Chatty

The main gender for my magazine is aimed at the males. The main target audience is students who are into sports, we are also going to target parts of the magazine to those who are wanting to get into sports. The audience would be Post-Modernists who are archievers, this means that the audience want to have, to be and to play and they also conistantly achieve things. As the magazine will not be formal we sugest the readers should be of a lower and middle class status.

here are my designs for the front cover and contents page.

Preliminary Task - Research

All of the student magazines that I have found are all full of colour. Each Masthead is different, for example the 'Tell' magazine is in a speach box this denotes expression, shouting, communicating. This connotes a written form of communication calling out to all the student audiences to read their magazine . The mainsell in 'Re-sus' denotes parties, fun, entertainment, gatherings and glamour. This connotes a fun party experience where everyone is having a good time listening to music and dancing. The font in 'eye candy' is serif. This denotes swirlish style writing and is informal. The serif style writing connotes a 60's beach style magazine, it also connotes drugs with the swirls having more hypnotic effect to the reader. Both the 'tell' and 're-sus' magazine have freebies, this could denote gifts, advertisment and also cheap sales. This connotes a search into a bigger audience, as the audience may be interested in the gifts that are being given away with the magazine. The main sell in 'tell!' denotes ammusement, students. This connotes a wide range of entertainment that students can have when they are out with their friends. I think that the Tell magazine is targeted towards the female students who are at a public school, as the content is not suitable for the private school pupils the reason for my choice is bassed upon the content included on the front cover eg. Britney story. All three covers are targeted towards Hedonists, as they all include the aspect of fun and entertainment, and are 'urging' their student audience to enjoy their lives whilst they can still have fun.

College Magazine Analysis

Most of the magazines have a masthead, barcode, date and issue number, Strap Line, Main Sell. They also are filled with many colours to attract all audiences. The magazine I would most prefer to read would be “what’s on” magazine. The reason for my choice is the way the creator has used many colours to attract the specific audience. It also is filled with many relevant information. After looking at Squash, for students, the main audience type who would read this type of magazine would be students who are looking into furthering their education past college, and who are needing help filling out their forms for universities. The connotations in the image show an Informal, Fun, Educational learning to the students life. The colour connotes a cool, clear and fresh environment that students work in. The language used is aimed towards students and is not in a formal style. It is mainly a chatty style to enhance the readers attention.

New AS Student :)

Just started AS Media .... so here is my first post :)