Textual analysis

For the textual analysis task, we have to analyse one cover and one content of a student magazine.

Here is an example of a front cover of a college magazine:

We could see that they used black as the background colour and the at middle of the background, it has a grey colour glow up this was put in order to make the magazine's background colour become brighter and not too dark. They also put  a very big bright yellow colour for the masthead on the top of the magazine which make it looks stand out to get the audiences' attention. They used a photo of a man with a black jacket for the front cover without the title, sub-title and the books in his hand, we wouldn't recognise that it is a college magazine because of the way he dressed but they put books, the title and the sub-title on it so we could know that it is a college magazine. It would be easier the use a photo of a student with they college's uniform which we could see straight away that it is a college magazine but it would be or might be boring for the audience as most of the audience of this magazine would be students. The way he dressed also represents his college, it shows the audiences that his college doesn't care much about the dressing which make him looks chilled out so the magazine would be more interesting. For the layout of this front cover, it is surrounded the model, the student in this front cover, this layout is typical layout and it was put like this so the text on the front cover don't cover the whole body of the model. As we could we on this front cover which is really stand out is the bright pink bit where it says "Splat!" They also used the "!" sign which get the audience attention, this bit on the front cover is the most stand out thing as the colour used was different from the other colour on the front cover page as most of the colours are black, yellow-green, white and grey.

Here is an example of content page of a student magazine.

As the content page is one of the most important page as it shows the audience which page contain what topic therefore it has to get its audience attention so they can see the most interesting topic for themselve because most people buy magazines which relate to themselve. Therefore now I'm going to say what should be change on this content page. First thing that could be change is the colour. The colours of this content page are mostly in black and white except the yellow at the middle of the magazine. The content page is colourless because black and white don't count as colour because when you print out the content page, it can be either in black and white or in colours but in this case we know that it was printed out in colour as we could see that the photo and the middle bit is in colours not in black and white. This content page looks really boring as it's colour doesn't get much the attention of its audience and it really looks different when compare with the front cover. As we know that the most important thing on the content page is the yellow bit that shows us what is on which page. However I think it would be better if it has more colours in it and change the colour of the text and the background in order to make it looks more colourful and attractive for the audience. For the second thing that can be change in order to make the content page looks better is the font of the text and the title of this magazine looks too formal as we know that student and college magazines have their target mostly on students, therefore the font of the text and the size of it should be change so it could get more attention from the audience.

The layout of this content page is excellent as it devided in 3 columes and in each colume has its own features for example the first colume on the left is about the letter from  the ed..., the second colume in the middle shows the topic on each page and the last colume shows photos and each photo has its own explanation.