This is another magazine for Secondary School teachers and parents. This is again targeted for a niche audience and with the main focus point being on a main image which is two gingerbread men, on a baking tray being held by a student.
The Gingerbread men represent a girl and a boy, this is obvious because one is wearing a skirt which we would expect a girl to wear for school. By using a stereotype you are making it obvious what the gingerbread men are, as we do represent a girl wearing a skirt, shirt and tie: as a school uniform. The boy is wearing what a stereotypical school uniform for a boy would be, a shirt and tie, however he isn't wearing trousers... possibly this could have made the image too complicated to understand which is why they have left it stereotypical and to a minimum. The gingerbread men are both the same size, they are not promoting one sex rather then the other, and they both have completely equal facial features, they're both smiling: like a nice, friendly, happy to be a school, students.
The person holding the tray, is gender unidentified: you can only see the tie, shirt and a little bit of the bottoms, whether it's a skirt or trousers are unknown. This widens the audience from possibly one gender toned, into multi gender toned, as its not one gender specific.
The caption above the centre image is printed in white and again includes a sub caption underneath the main caption. Again it's as if there is an order in which you view this magazine, as in what features the magazine want's you to see first: First, it's the large caption, which gives you a hint on what the main story is inside. Second, It's the sub caption which gives the main insight into what the story is like on the whole, and third is the supporting image which supports the main article in the magazine and also provokes a lot more interest, then there originally could have been with the use of text, rather then an attention grabbing image. The idea of this being in a kind of order, never lets the reader loose attention with the magazine, as the readers eyes are always fixed on something also the caption 'Cook With Me!' uses a personal pronoun which is very inviting and warm.
The second main focus point is the masthead, which is the same on the other magazine, it is very mature colours compared to the primary school magazine. The Masthead is a fade between green to blue and is in sans-serif font, this gives a more tabloid feel to the magazine thus attracting a wider based audience. I feel the colour bluey/greeny gives a lot more older feel to the students, whereas primary school children would be more acceptable of being labelled with a lighter colour, either baby blue or baby pink, however with the darkness to the colour it seems to have matured the look of the audience a bit more, as well as the masthead called 'Secondary' we then understand why it's trying to have a more mature feel to the magazine.
There is again 3 plugs at the top of the magazine which are supposed to lure the audience into buying the magazine, it's supposed to seem to the audience that they're are a lot more stories then just the main article. The colours are a lot more warm, using reds and pinks: it also connects with the uniform the students wearing whilst holding up the baking tray. The plugs are including quotations which could intrigue the audience as they don't really make since, they've used an image along with a caption however, they don't give too much away by using the image, it still creates interest about this plug, and the final one is hints and tips in the classroom using alliteration and all words are all duel syllabic. It seems all 3 of the plugs all include a different effect, the first plug includes a quotation, 2nd includes an image and the 3 includes alliteration. I believe the they've used this to make it a lot more different, the fear of how boring the 3 plugs would seem if they just used the same effect, it creates a variation and therefore can retrieve a more interested audience.
At the bottom of the front page, they again include a sort of by line, displaying their production company as well and an email which does give the audience the idea of caring, because why would the magazine print their email if they weren’t caring enough to receive feedback, comments and questions? It's all an idea of caring for the audience.
This is another good example for a college magazine, however, they use the same ideas for each magazine, and that’s their way of producing their magazine front cover. However, I feel it would be a lot more helpful if I analysed a different magazine perhaps, one targeted at a mass audience, or maybe just another college magazine as I do have to produce a college magazine, I feel I just need more interesting ideas then I’m analysing already.
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