College magazine analysis

            This magazine firstly defies the stereotypical image of a young black male by portraying him as hard working student, this idea has been taken from the textbooks he is carrying in the image, ‘law

, business and society’; it is commonly known that law is a challenging subject so we can take the idea he works hard from the subjects he appears to be taking. He is also smiling directly into the camera, which shows he is friendly and when being compared to a music magazine featuring a black male, they are consistently looking ‘moody’.

            The magazine displays clearly that is in fact a college magazine as it’s masthead is ‘college lifestyle’ however, if we look closer into the cover lines, its suggests it is a college magazine as on one cover line, it states ‘COLLEGE COUTURE’ and in another, ‘MAKE MONEY ON CAMPUS’ telling the reader it is a magazine targeted at students.      

            College Lifestyle have only used four different colours -  a lime green, white, black and a small amount of hot pink. The ratio of the colours is evenly spread apart from the pink which is only featured in the ‘SPLAT!’ in the top right third of the magazine. Such a bright colour among duller colours has been used to contrast the rest of the colors, this is done bring the attention over from the target audience and is a technique widely used.

            Furthermore, the magazine have only used around four fonts, this is so the cover is simple to read and doesn’t get too messy; it helps the audience to read the magazine in fast and easy. A range of fonts have been used to help the target audience of students to understand and determine what stories are more important and what features in the magazine.