East Riding College Magazine Analysis

http://www.eastridingcollege.ac.uk/retrieve/d2343bc1358b3983a89d916f6a988935
I looked at the magazine for East Riding College to give me more ideas about what conventions need to go on a magazine and how they layed it out. It had a masthead on it called 'Student Life' This appeals to the target audience because it is directly telling you who the magazine is aimed at. It has a consistent font for each feauture heading on the front page. However the feature headings are very small and do not really make sense. The picture on the front page is of the trip to Berlin that the students went on which is relevant to the story inside. However the picture does not fit in with the issue which is the spring issue because the picture is a winter setting and it also has the page number on it which is very unusual. The background of the front page is very simple as it is a plain black background with white writing on. If you look through the rest of the magazine it has green on the pages so the front cover should have had green on it aswell. Another downside of this magazine is that it does not use synergy or puff and it does not have a website or a slogan. Overall I think that this front cover is not a very good one because it does not really appeal to it's target audience. I then analysed the contents page to help me with my mock up contents page. It was not layed out very well because it had pictures with different sized boreds which were only there to use up some more space. The colour scheme was different to the front page as it had green on it but the font was still the same. A good point was that the pages were clearly numbered.