LIAAR analysis of the brief
My magazine front cover will have a short and memorable masthead title; it will be dominant showing what the actual magazine is about. The title will be something the target audience (the college student) will be able to relate to. I will do this by making it in an exiting font which is pleasurable to view and will have a teenage theme for the style of the masthead. Somewhere near the title I will have the logo of the college I choose to have my magazine for, this will be used for advertisement to teenagers who do not attend that college yet could also be for the students who already attend that college. The logo of the college is the organization which the magazine is made by. The language will express many different things in what the magazine is about. The font in which the title will be will be the same font used for all the sub-headings that are on the front cover and the title of the contents page to keep a fixed theme. The general font of text that is in the magazine will be in a simple ‘Ariel Black’ to not cause difficulty when reading.
The main image on the front cover will be of a student who attends the college which my magazine will be about in MCU containing only the shoulders and face. The subjects face will be well expressed and clear because of this making it better for viewing. My student will be either be stood looking at the camera with an activity going on in the background, or will be stood by the college grounds holding a folder expressing a studious scene. This will link to what the magazine is about clearly and be a representation of what happens in the college. The student will be looking directly into the camera as if the viewer is making a connection with the image, the subject will be smiling to express a happy atmosphere at the college.
The use of colours on the front cover of my magazine will be persistent throughout; they will be bright but will stick to only two or three colours showing a clear house-style. All captions to the images used in my magazine will be in the same font style as the sub-headings with a solid colour text box which will be in a separate colour to the house-style to make them stand out, yet all captions will be persistent in the style.
In the contents the page numbers will be listed top to bottom of the page toward the left. There will be thumbnail images scattered around the page with the captions below, the captions will list what is happening in the image and also what page number it will link with. This will show the audience some of the activities that happen within college life. These will also act as anchorages to make the audience want to know more, thus can be used to draw people who do not attend the college to attend.
I may use a barcode if I decide to aim my magazine at current students who would pay for the magazine by making the sort of magazine that the college student would bother to purchase. If I decide to have my target audience as teenagers who do not yet attend the college I would not include a barcode as it would not be the sort of magazine that would be purchased and more the sort used to advertise and make a student want to attend. To make this more effective in advertising if I do decide to aim it at the one who does not attend that college I could include some competitions or events that go on in the college for non-members to take up. I would include these on the front cover to make it more appealing to pick up and read the magazine. This would also work if I chose the audience as the one who does attend that college as it would make them want to purchase the magazine to enter a competition etc.
In the contents the page numbers will be listed top to bottom of the page toward the left. There will be thumbnail images scattered around the page with the captions below, the captions will list what is happening in the image and also what page number it will link with. This will show the audience some of the activities that happen within college life. These will also act as anchorages to make the audience want to know more, thus can be used to draw people who do not attend the college to attend.
I may use a barcode if I decide to aim my magazine at current students who would pay for the magazine by making the sort of magazine that the college student would bother to purchase. If I decide to have my target audience as teenagers who do not yet attend the college I would not include a barcode as it would not be the sort of magazine that would be purchased and more the sort used to advertise and make a student want to attend. To make this more effective in advertising if I do decide to aim it at the one who does not attend that college I could include some competitions or events that go on in the college for non-members to take up. I would include these on the front cover to make it more appealing to pick up and read the magazine. This would also work if I chose the audience as the one who does attend that college as it would make them want to purchase the magazine to enter a competition etc.
Either if my magazine is aimed at a current student or somebody who does not attend the college my target audience will be aimed at the teenager aged 16-19. To make this apply more to the audience I will make sure I include help lines and other information of facilities a teenager may need, for example ‘sexual help’. The students of the college in the magazine will be shown positively and stereotypically to give the magazine more values that would apply to my audience. The contents of the magazine will apply to the stereotypical student by having information of music gigs for example, or other activities that would apply to my audience.
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