Thursday, 13 October 2011

Conventions of a magazine 2


Language - The language is the most important part of a magazine, as this is what tend to attract the reader into buying or purchasing the product.The masthead is situated towards the top of the magazine, the colour of the text is in white which makes the Text stand out, as people are more likely to notice the Masthead as it is the biggest piece of text on the Page.
The Main Image displays seven students in long shot, who are media students and are visiting Berlin. In the image all of the students are wearing black this is good as it links in with the rest of the magazine.
There is no flash on this magazine,There is also no Barcode situated on this, this is because the magazine is 'FREE'. The reason why they use block capitals for 'FREE' is because it attracts the reader in wanting to read the newspaper as its 'FREE'. The date of the text is situated to the side of the masthead, the reason why this is situated towards the side is because the masthead is the first thing you immediately look at.

Institution - The institution for this magazine is East riding College.

Ideology - The ideolody of this magazine, is to inform all of the student about recent activities that are happening at the college. It also has information about stuff that the students can relate to, and gives them information about things they need to know about. The magazine tends to have a more positive approach to the way it represents the college.
Audience - There is a range of different target audience for this magazine, the first is that it is aimed at students who are Art. Another is it could be aimed at the people who have previously been bullied, due to the article 'Anti-bullying- Berlin'. Overall it could be aimed at everyone at the college, as it is not aimed at one specific subject.

Representation - The students who is in the image is representing the college, they are representing Media students. You are able to tell this due to the use of colour in the image, as the colour of the text that says 'Media students in Berlin'.

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