College Magazine Analysis

The masthead is bold and colourful and gives a warm welcoming feeling due to the yellow text as yellow is often known as a warm and gentle colour. The uses of colour is very important with the magazine itself like with any magazine but this could be more important as college magazines could be difficult to sell and be read by the students. Dotted around the page there are smaller titles detailing what stories you will be finding in the issue itself allowing people to get the better idea on what they are buying and whether or not they would want to buy it or not. The barcode has cleverly been tucked away in the bottom corner of the magazine so it does not grab your attention and is just there to serve a purpose, under the barcode we have the pricing information which is important to note as students often don’t have that much money and magazines are not of their highest priority on items to buy so it needs to be cheap, when comparing it to other magazines sold its price is actually quite cheap. The picture in the centre is relevant as it connects with the main article of the magazine which we know as it has a larger font size than the other articles. 

I am evaluating this front cover to give myself more ideas for my own front cover and get a better look at what magazines can look like in general as they don’t have to be glitzy or glamorous, they sometimes have to be straight and to the point which I find is needed for this kind of magazine. Much of the magazine is to help you around on campus it looks like which seems like a very good thing to put on the front cover as many of the freshmen would love things like this as it gives them a good starting point.